Title: A solution for the management of multimedia sessions in hybrid clouds

Authors: Cristina Dutu; Elena Apostol; Catalin Leordeanu; Valentin Cristea

Addresses: Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei nr. 313, Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania ' Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei nr. 313, Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania ' Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei nr. 313, Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania ' Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei nr. 313, Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract: Cloud-based systems expanded considerably in recent years, as the demand for cheaper and easily scalable resources provisioning solutions increased. In this context, the deployment of multimedia services in the cloud, as a way to increase their usability and overcome their processing overhead, gained additional interest. Throughout this paper we present the design of a management system for multimedia services built on top of a hybrid cloud. This describes a model of service unit deployment automation as well as a services composition scheme adapted to the IaaS cloud architecture and resources pool. We propose a modular and flexible architecture to handle service composition, automated service deployment with execution flow management and scalable storage capabilities. Finally we analyse the benefits of using the service management system with a hybrid cloud back-end.

Keywords: multimedia services; service composition; cloud computing; virtual resources; hybrid clouds; modelling; IaaS; infrastructure as a service; automated service deployment; execution flow management; service management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSC.2014.062468

International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, 2014 Vol.4 No.2, pp.77 - 87

Received: 07 Jan 2014
Accepted: 09 Jan 2014

Published online: 05 Jul 2014 *

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