Dynamic Architectural Framework for Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud Computing has been a buzzword for quite a while. A lot of companies are offering cloud infrastructures and services, which can be used by organizations and individuals at a nominal charge. There are various cloud providers in the market. But, when it comes to interoperability or quality attributes of the different types of cloud services by different cloud providers, there is no consensus on standards. The other but yet important issue is there is no framework, which can define the quality attributes of a cloud and measure them. Different companies have used different architectural patterns for implementing their cloud. But, none of them have proved to provide a good balance of the quality attributes such as Greenability, Availability, Security, Reliability, Performance, Portability or Interoperability etc. In this paper, we proposing an architectural framework for defining and measuring the quality attributes of a cloud and to customize these quality attributes to satisfy the quality requirements of different subscribers, which can make the cloud more usable and adoptable by reducing the cost and increasing the profit for the cloud vendors. It also makes it possible for the same cloud to behave differently for different subscribers according to their needs.