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Middleware Services at Cloud Application Layer

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Cloud infrastructure is composed of enormous resources, which need to be securely and reliably coordinated and managed to provide end-to-end trusted services in the Cloud. Such coordination and management could be supported using a set of middleware. A middleware should provide a set of trustworthy automated management services. Such services would help in moving current untrusted Cloud to a trustworthy Clouds’ Internet scale critical infrastructure. The main contribution in this paper is identifying Cloud middleware types focusing on application layer management services and their interdependencies. To the best of our knowledge our paper is the first to identify middleware services and their interdependencies. We demonstrate services interdependencies and interactions using a multi-tier application architecture in Cloud computing context. Finally, we discuss the advantages of middleware services for establishing trust in the Cloud and provide our research agenda in this direction.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University Of Oxford, UK

    Imad M. Abbadi

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  1. Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Auburn, 98071-2259, Washington, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  2. Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, 46071, Valencia, Spain

    Jaime Lloret Mauri

  3. Avaya Labs Research, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA

    John F. Buford

  4. University of Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey Blvd., 02125-3393, Boston, MA, USA

    Junichi Suzuki

  5. Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Rajagiri Valley Kakkanad, 682 039, Kochi, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

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Abbadi, I.M. (2011). Middleware Services at Cloud Application Layer. In: Abraham, A., Mauri, J.L., Buford, J.F., Suzuki, J., Thampi, S.M. (eds) Advances in Computing and Communications. ACC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 193. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22726-4_58

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