Modeling and Analysis of Cloud Collaborative Commerce

Abstract

Cloud computing has the potential to be particularly suitable for collaboration commerce (c-commerce) because it generally requires less extensive customization, development, integration, operation, and maintenance than other computing resources. However, upgrading c-commerce IT infrastructure, to run on cloud computing, faces a number of challenges, such as lack of effective design and implementation models. This paper describes and evaluates the performance of a new model of c-commerce that utilizes the evolving cloud computing technologies; as a result of that it is referred to as cloud collaborative commerce (cc-commerce) model. The model consists of six main components, these are: client, provider, auditor, broker, security and privacy, and communications network. The new cc-commerce model is used to develop a simple and flexible Web-based test tool, namely, the cc-commerce test (3CT) tool. The performance of the new model is evaluated by measuring the response times for four different configurations using the 3CT tool. The results obtained demonstrate that the cc-commerce model performs faster than equivalent c-commerce models.