Title: A RESTFull interface for scalable agents based cloud services

Authors: Salvatore Venticinque; Luca Tasquier; Beniamino Di Martino

Addresses: Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Seconda Università di Napoli, via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, Italy ' Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Seconda Università di Napoli, via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, Italy ' Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Seconda Università di Napoli, via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, Italy

Abstract: Agent technology provides asynchronous mechanisms that could represent the best choice for effective programming of Cloud, due to the unpredictable behaviour of the network. Cloud Agency is a collection of agent based services for provisioning, monitoring and autonomic reconfiguration of Cloud resources at infrastructure level, which go beyond the common offer by commercial providers and by open Cloud technologies. Its service interface provides methods for orchestrated executions of agents that implement a scalable solution for provisioning and management of Cloud resources at infrastructures level. Cloud Agency extends the open cloud computing interface (OCCI) proposal of standard. We present the design of Cloud Agency Interface and the implementation of an RESTfull to/from ACL gateway that allows for the communication between the Cloud world and the agents' one, being compliant with OCCI and extending its model and services. We investigate performance and scalability of the proposed solution.

Keywords: IAAS; infrastructure as a service; service brokering; resource provisioning; OCCI; open cloud computing interface; scalable agents; cloud services; agent-based systems; multi-agent systems; MAS; resource monitoring; resource reconfiguration; autonomic reconfiguration; cloud resources.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2014.064857

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2014 Vol.16 No.4, pp.219 - 231

Received: 02 Nov 2012
Accepted: 10 Jun 2013
Published online: 19 Sep 2014 *

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