2014 IEEE 6th International

Conference on Cloud Computing

Technology and Science

(CloudCom 2014)

Singapore15-18 December 2014

Volume 1

Pages 1-762

1/2

IEEE Catalog Number: CFP14CLU-POD

ISBN: 978-1-4799-4092-9

2014 IEEE 6th International

Conference on Cloud

Computing Technologyand Science

CloudCom 2014

Table of Contents

Message from General Chairs xx

Message from Program Chairs xxii

Message from Steering Committee xxiv

Conference Organization xxv

Program Committees xxviii

Award Committee xxxvi

Reviewers xxxvii

Keynotes xxxviii

Volume 1

Architecture: Design & Analysis

SRL: A Scalability Rule Language for Multi-cloud Environments 1

Kyriakos Kritikos, Jorg Domaschka, and Alessandro Rossini

Bejo: Behavior Based Job Classification for Resource Consumption Prediction

in the Cloud 10

Lin Xu, Jiannong Cao, Yan Wang, Lei Yang, and Jing Li

Dependability Analysis on Open Stack laaS Cloud: Bug Anaysis and Fault

Injection 18

Yuan Xiaoyong, Li Ying, Wu Zhonghai, and Liu Tiancheng

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The CACTOS Vision of Context-Aware Cloud Topology Optimization

and Simulation

Per-Olov Ostberg, Henning Groenda, Stefan Wesner, James Byrne,

Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Craig Sheridan, Jakub Krzywda, Ahmed Ali-Eldin,

Johan Tordsson, Erik Elmroth, Christian Stier, Klaus Krogmann,

Jorg Domaschka, Christopher B. Hauser, P.J. Byrne, Sergej Svorobej,

Barry Mccollum, Zafeirios Papazachos, Darren Whigham, Stephan Ruth,

and Dragana Paurevic

Classifying Requirements for Variability Optimization in Multitenant

Applications 32

Ahmed I. Saleh, Mohammed A. Fouad, and Men/at Abu-Elkheir

loT and Mobile on Cloud: Client-Server

An Optimization Framework for Cloud-Sensor Systems 38

Yi Xu and Sumi Helal

Improving Performance of Mobile Interactive Data-Streaming Applications

with Multiple Cloudlets 46

Weiqing Liu, Jiannong Cao, Xuanjia Qiu, and Jing Li

Game-Theoretic Distributed Virtual Energy Cloud Topology Control for Mobile

Smart Grid 54

Ayan Mondal and Sudip Misra

Job Scheduling for Cloud Computing Integrated with Wireless Sensor Network 62

Chunsheng Zhu, Xiuhua Li, Victor CM. Leung, Xiping Hu, and Laurence T. Yang

Security and Privacy I

FlowK: Information Flow Control for the Cloud 70

Thomas F.J.M. Pasquier, Jean Bacon, and David Eyers

Verifying Secure Information Flow in Federated Clouds 78

Wen Zeng, Maciej Koutny, and Paul Watson

VLOC: An Approach to Verify the Physical Location of a Virtual Machine In

Cloud 86

Mojtaba Eskandari, Anderson Santana De Oliveira, and Bruno Crispo

COAT: Cloud Offerings Advisory Tool 95

Rehab Alnemr, Siani Pearson, Ronald Leenes, and Rodney Mhungu

A Trustworthiness Evaluation Framework in Cloud Computing for Service

Selection 101

Lifeng Wang and Zhengping Wu

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Services and Applications I

Two-Level Storage QoS to Manage Performance for Multiple Tenants

with Multiple Workloads 107

Shu Qin Ren, Shibin Cheng, Yu Zhang, En Sheng Lim, Khai Leong Yong,

and Zengxiang Li

Key Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Implications

on Service Requirements: Evidence from a Systematic Literature Review 114

Younes Benslimane, Michel Plaisent, Prosper Bernard, and Bouchaib Bahli

A Scalable Method for Partitioning Workflows with Security Requirements

over Federated Clouds 122

Zhenyu Wen, Jacek Cala, and Paul Watson

An Adaptive VM Provisioning Method for Large-Scale Agent-Based Traffic

Simulations on the Cloud 130

Masatoshi Hanai, Toyotaro Suzumura, Anthony Ventresque, and Kazuyuki Shudo

Architecture: Adaptivity

Surrogate-Assisted Online Optimisation of Cloud laaS Configurations 138

Kleopatra Chatziprimou, Kevin Lano, and Steffen Zschaler

SALSA: A Framework for Dynamic Configuration of Cloud Services 146

Due-Hung Le, Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Stefan Nastic,

and Schahram Dustdar

Elastic Multi-tenant Business Process Based Service Pattern in Cloud

Computing 154

Wael Sellami, Hatem Hadj Kacem, and Ahmed Hadj Kacem

A Cluster-Based Vehicular Cloud Architecture with Learning-Based Resource

Management 162

Hamid Reza Arkian, Reza Ebrahimi Atani, and Atefe Pourkhalili

Automatic Resource Provisioning: A Machine Learning Based Proactive

Approach 168

Anshuman Biswas, Shikharesh Majumdar, Biswajit Nandy, and AH El-Haraki

loT and Mobile on Cloud: Ad Hoc

A Stochastic Workload Distribution Approach for an Ad Hoc Mobile Cloud 174

Tram Truong-Huu, Chen-Khong Tham, and Dusit Niyato

To Offload or to Wait: An Opportunistic Offloading Algorithm for Parallel Tasks

in a Mobile Cloud 182

Tram Truong-Huu, Chen-Khong Tham, and Dusit Niyato

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Ad Hoc Cloudlet Based Cooperative Cloud Gaming 190

Fangyuan Chi, Xiaofei Wang, Wei Cai, and Victor CM. Leung

Bring the Cloud to Your Mobile: Transparent Offloading of HTML5 Web

Workers 198

Maciej Zbierski and Przemyslaw Makosiej

Virtualization-Based Scaling Methods for Stateful Cellular Network Nodes

Using Elastic Core Architecture 204

Yusuke Takano, Ashiq Khan, Motoshi Tamura, Shigeru Iwashina,

and Takashi Shimizu

Virtualization I

Virt Cache: Managing Virtual Disk Performance Variation in Distributed File

Systems for the Cloud 210

Rajesh Vellore Arumugam, Quanqing Xu, Haixiang Shi, Qingchao Cai,

and Yonggang Wen

A 3-Level Cache Miss Model for a Nonvolatile Extension to Transcendent

Memory 218

Vimalraj Venkatesan, Y.C. Tay, Yi Irvette Zhang, and Qingsong Wei

A Guideline for Selecting Live Migration Policies and Implementations

in Clouds 226

Akane Koto, Kenji Kono, and Hiroshi Yamada

A Multi-resource Selection Scheme for Virtual Machine Consolidation in Cloud

Data Centers 234

Nguyen Trung Hieu, Mario Di Francesco, and Antti Yla-Jaaski

Saving the Planet with Bin Packing - Experiences Using 2D and 3D Bin

Packing of Virtual Machines for Greener Clouds 240

Thomas Hage, Kyrre Begnum, andAnis Yazidi

Services and Applications II

Cloud Work Bench - Infrastructure-as-Code Based Cloud Benchmarking 246

Joel Scheuner, Philipp Leitner, Jurgen Cito, and Harald Gall

An Efficient Co-processing Framework for Large-Scale Scientific Applications 254

Rubing Duan, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Lily Rachmawati, Long Wang,

Henry N. Palit, Xiaorong Li, Chi Keong Goh, Partha Dutta, Leigh Lapworth,

and David Knott

Optimal Resource Provisioning for Scaling Enterprise Applications on

the Cloud 262

Satish Narayana Srirama and Alireza Ostovar

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Towards Understanding the Usage Behavior of Google Cloud Users: The Mice

and Elephants Phenomenon 272

OmarArif Abdul-Rahman and Kento Aida

An Empirical Study of the Impact of Cloud Patterns on Quality of Service

(QoS) 278

Geoffrey Hecht, Benjamin Jose-Scheidt, Clement De Figueiredo, Naouel Moha,

and Foutse Khomh

Architecture: VM & SaaS

Energy-Efficient Data Center Networks Planning with Virtual Machine

Placement and Traffic Configuration 284

Ting Yang, Young Choon Lee, and Albert Y. Zomaya

SaaS Dynamic Evolution Based on Model-Driven Software Product Lines 292

Fatma Mohamed, Mohammad Abu-Matar, Rabeb Mizouni,

Mahmoud Al-Qutayri, and Zaid Al Mahmoud

Divide the Task, Multiply the Outcome: Cooperative VM Consolidation 300

Mina Sedaghat, Francisco Hernandez-Rodriguez, Erik Elmroth,

and Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Hierarchical VM Management Architecture for Cloud Data Centers 306

Fahimeh Farahnakian, Pasi Liljeberg, Tapio Pahikkala, Juha Plosila,

and Hannu Tenhunen

Big Data: Techniques

Improving Hadoop Monetary Efficiency in the Cloud Using Spot Instances 312

Changbing Chen, Bu Sung Lee, and Xueyan Tang

Content-Aware Partial Compression for Big Textual Data Analysis

Acceleration 320

Dapeng Dong and John Herbert

Big Data Processing for Prediction of Traffic Time Based on Vertical Data

Arrangement 326

Seungwoo Jeon, Bonghee Hong, and Byungsoo Kim

HPC on Cloud: Management

Reliability Guided Resource Allocation for Large-Scale Systems 334

Shruti Umamaheshwaran and Thomas J. Hacker

Energy-Efficient Scheduling of Urgent Bag-of-Tasks Applications in Clouds

through DVFS 342

Rodrigo N. Calheiros and Rajkumar Buyya

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A Framework for Measuring the Impact and Effectiveness of the NEES

Cyberinfrastructure for Earthquake Engineering 350

Thomas Hacker and Alejandra J. Magana

Security and Privacy II

Anonymous User Revocation for Using Attribute-Based Signature in Cloud

Computing 358

Zhiqian Xu and Keith M. Martin

Multi-user Searchable Encryption with Efficient Access Control for Cloud

Storage 366

Zhiquan Lv, Min Zhang, and Dengguo Feng

Delegated Access for Hadoop Clusters in the Cloud 374

David Nunez, Isaac Agudo, and Javier Lopez

Multi-level Security for Deploying Distributed Applications on Clouds, Devices

and Things 380

Paul Watson and Mark Little

A Multi-layer and MultiTenant Cloud Assurance Evaluation Methodology 386

Aleksandar Hudic, Markus Tauber, Thomas Lorunser, Maria Krotsiani,

George Spanoudakis, Andreas Mauthe, and Edgar R. Weippl

Real-Time Proof of Violation for Cloud Storage 394

Gwan-Hwan Hwang, Wei-Sian Huang, and Jenn-Zjone Peng

HPC on Cloud: Environment

Executing Bag of Distributed Tasks on the Cloud: Investigating the Trade-Offs

between Performance and Cost 400

Long Thai, Blesson Varghese, and Adam Barker

CPU Performance Coefficient (CPU-PC): A Novel Performance Metric Based

on Real-Time CPU Resource Provisioning in Time-Shared Cloud

Environments 408

Toni Mastelic, Ivona Brandic, and Jasmina Jasarevic

Performance Analysis of Cloud Environments on Top of Energy-EfficientPlatforms Featuring Low Power Processors 416

Valentin Plugaru, Sebastien Varrette, and Pascal Bouvry

Exploring the Performance Impact of Virtualization on an HPC Cloud 426

Nuttapong Chakthranont, Phonlawat Khunphet, Ryousei Takano,

and Tsutomu Ikegami

Gate Cloud: An Integration of Gate Monte Carlo Simulation with a Cloud

Computing Environment 433

Blake A. Rowedder, Hui Wang, and Yu Kuang

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Services and Applications III

Cooperative Scheduling of Bag-of-Tasks Workflows on Hybrid Clouds 439

Rubing Duan and Radu Prodan

On Analyzing Elasticity Relationships of Cloud Services 447

Daniel Moldovan, Georgiana Copil, Hong-Linn Truong, and Schahram Dustdar

Online Multiple Workflow Scheduling under Privacy and Deadline in HybridCloud Environment 455

Shaghayegh Sharif, Javid Taheri, Albert Y. Zomaya, and Surya Nepal

Broker as a Service (BaaS) Pricing and Resource Estimation Model 463

Mohammad Aazam and Eui-Nam Huh

Universal Cloud Classification (UCC) and its Evaluation in a Data Center

Environment 469

Sebastian Jeuk, Gonzalo Salgueiro, and Shi Zhou

Big Data: Management

Simulating Hive Cluster for Deployment Planning, Evaluation and Optimization 475

Kebing Wang, Zhaojuan Bian, Qian Chen, Ren Wang, and Gen Xu

Local Resource Shaper for MapReduce 483

Peng Lu, Young Choon Lee, Vincent Gramoli, Luke M. Leslie,

and Albert Y. Zomaya

Hierarchical Parallelization and Runtime Scheduling for Pregel-Like Graph

Processing Systems 491

Zengxiang Li, Rubing Duan, Long Wang, Sifei Lu, Zheng Qin,

and Rick Siow Mong Goh

An Efficient Multidimension Metadata Index and Search System for Cloud

Data 499

Yang Yu, Yongqing Zhu, Willie Ng, and Juniarto Samsudin

Performance Study of Spindle, A Web Analytics Query Engine Implemented

in Spark 505

Brandon Amos and David Tompkins

Service and Applications IV

An Automatic Deployment Mechanism on Cloud Computing Platform 511

Rongqi Zhang, Yanlei Shang, and Si Zhang

Trace Bench: An Open Data Set for Trace-Oriented Monitoring 519

Jingwen Zhou, Zhenbang Chen, Ji Wang, Zibin Zheng, and Michael R. Lyu

Implementation of Load Balancing Method for Cloud Service with Open Flow 527

Chao-Tung Yang, Yi-Wei Su, Jung-Chun Liu, and Yao-Yu Yang

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Cloud Benchmarking for Performance 535

Blesson Varghese, OzgurAkgun, Ian Miguel, Long Thai, and Adam Barker

Vadara: Predictive Elasticity for Cloud Applications 541

Joao Loff and Joao Garcia

Virtualization II

Power-Efficient and Predictable Data Centers with Sliding Scheduled Tenant

Requests 547

Aissan Dalvandi, Mohan Gurusamy, and Kee Chaing Chua

Virtual Network Allocation for Fault Tolerance with Bandwidth Efficiency in

a Multi-tenant Data Center 555

Yukio Ogawa, Go Hasegawa, and Masayuki Murata

Virtual Transits: A Flexible Platform for Network Virtualization across Data

Centers 563

Mon-Yen Luo and Jun-Yi Chen

Incentive-Driven QoS for Ephemeral Virtual Clouds 571

Arun Raj, Abhinay Bulakh, Santosh Kumar, and Janakiram Dharanipragada

CoAP Proxy Virtualization for the Web of Things 577

E. Mingozzi, G. Tanganelli, and C. Vallati

Architecture: Autonomy & Modeling

Autonomous Agreement-Mediation Based on WS-agreement for Improving

Cloud SLAs 583

Alexander Stanik, Fridtjof Sander, and Odej Kao

Prototyping an Autonomic Cloud Infrastructure to Manage Live Streaming

Applications Using a Software Defined Network: Performance Analysis

and Challenges 591

Moises Rodrigues, Patricia Endo, Jonatas Vitalino, Glauco Gongalves,

Djamel Sadok, and Fetahi Wuhib

Resource Allocation in Cloud Environment: A Model Based on Double

Multi-attribute Auction Mechanism 599

Xingwei Wang, Xueyi Wang, Cho-Li Wang, Keqin Li, and Min Huang

Modeling and Understanding TCP's Fairness Problem in Data Center

Networks 605

Shuli Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yifang Qin, Yanni Han, and Song Ci

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Energy Efficiency and Accountability

Energy Efficiency Dilemma: P2P-cloud vs. Datacenter 611

Leila Sharifi, Navaneeth Rameshan, Felix Freitag, and Luis Veiga

Multi-tenant Services Monitoring for Accountability in Cloud Computing 620

Fafma Masmoudi, Monia Loulou, and Ahmed Hadj Kacem

PhD Consortium

Predictive Analytics of Sensor Data Using Distributed Machine Learning

Techniques 626

Girma Kejela, Rui Maximo Esteves, and Chunming Rong

Resource Requirement Analysis for Web Applications Running in a Virtualised

Environment 632

Rafidah Pakir Mohamad, Dimitrios S. Kolovos, and Richard F. Paige

Towards Economic Fairness for Big Data Processing in Pay-as-You-Go Cloud

Computing 638

Shanjiang Tang, Bu-Sung Lee, and Bingsheng He

STOVE: Strict, Observable, Verifiable Data and Execution Models

for Untrusted Applications 644

Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan

Simplified Resource Provisioning for Workflows in laaS Clouds 650

Amelie Chi Zhou and Bingsheng He

Poster Papers

VM Placement Algorithms for Hierarchical Cloud Infrastructure 656

Md Humayun Kabir, Gholamali C. Shoja, and Sudhakar Ganti

Underpinning a Cloud Brokerage Service Framework for Quality Assurance

and Optimization 660

Simeon Veloudis, Andreas Friesen, Iraklis Paraskakis, Yiannis Verginadis,

and loannis Patiniotakis

Artificial Immune System Inspired Algorithm for Flow-Based Internet Traffic

Classification 664

Brian Schmidt, Dionysios Kountanis, and Ala Al-Fuqaha

Traffic-Aware Load Balancing for M2M Networks Using SDN 668

Yu-Jia Chen, Yi-Hsin Shen, and Li-Chun Wang

Monetary-and-QoS Aware Replica Placements in Cloud-Based Storage

Systems 672

Lingfang Zeng, Shijie Xu, Yang Wang, Xiang Cui, Tan Wee Kiat,

David Bremner, and Kenneth B. Kent

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A Cloud-Assisted Network Coded Packet Retransmission Approach

for Wireless Multicasting 676

Yu-Jia Chen, Wan-Ling Ho, Li-Chun Wang, and Kuo-Chen Wang

STOVEPipe: Observable Access Control of User Data for Untrusted

Applications on Mobile Devices 680

Jiaqi Tan, Utsav Drolia, Rolando Martins, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan

Cloud Rendering a Feasibility Case Study 684

Vasileios Anagnostopoulos and Emmanuel Sardis

Subset WSDL to Access Subset Service for Analysis 688

Animesh Chaturvedi

Hierarchical Density-Based Clustering Using Level-Sets 692

Francesco Alex Indaco and Teng-Sheng Moh

To Facilitate File Sync and File Share with Ezilla-Swift 696

Hui-Shan Chen, Yi-Lun Pan, Chang-Hsing Wu, and Weicheng Huang

PADM: Page Rank-Based Anomaly Detection Method of Log Sequences

by Graph Computing 700

Xiaoben Yan, Wei Zhou, Yun Gao, Zhang Zhang, Jizhong Han, and Ge Fu

When to Schedule an Application? An Energy-Aware Decision 704

Ansuman Dash and Ansuman Banerjee

The Demonstration of Hyper Software Defined Hardware Counters 708

Tao Zhao, Tao Li, Biao Han, Zhigang Sun, and Jinfeng Huang

Demostration of Self-Described Buffer for Accelerating Packet Forwarding

on Multi-core Servers 712

Lu Tang, Zhigang Sun, Tao Li, Biao Han, Gaofeng Lv, Wei Shi, and Hui Yang

Automated Web Service Change Management AWSCM - A Tool 715

Animesh Chaturvedi

OMTiR: Open Market for Trading Idle Cloud Resources 719

Murat Karakus, Li Zengxiang, Cai Wentong, and Ta Nguyen Binh Duong

A User Interface for Large-Scale Demographic Simulation 723

Cristina Montahola-Sales, Josep Casanovas-Garcia, Bhakti S.S. Onggo,

and Zengxiang Li

A Keystone-Based Virtual Organization Management System 727

Craig A. Lee, Nehal Desai, and Andrew Brethorst

CF-inspired Privacy-Preserving Prediction of Next Location in the Cloud 731

Anirban Basu, Juan Camilo Corena, Anna Monreale, Dino Pedreschi,

Fosca Giannotti, Shinsaku Kiyomoto, Jaideep Vaidya, and Yutaka Miyake

Ontology Driven Reputation Model for the Cloud 735

Kahina Hamadache

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Data Storage on the Cloud under User Control 739

Juan Camilo Corena, Anirban Basu, Yuto Nakano, Shinsaku Kiyomoto,and Yutaka Miyake

An Atomic-Multicast Service for Scalable In-Memory Transaction Systems 743

Ryan Emerson and Paul Ezhilchelvan

Identification of Related Management Scripts for Efficient Automation of Cloud

Management Tasks 747

Shinya Kitajima, Shinji Kikuchi, and Yasuhide Matsumoto

Leveraging Platform Basic Services in Cloud Application Platforms for

the Development of Cloud Applications 751

Fotis Gonidis, Iraklis Paraskakis, and Anthony J.H. Simons

Towards Context-Sensitive Service Composition for Service-Oriented Image

Processing 755

Alexander Jungmann and Bernd Kleinjohann

Evaluating Impact of Live Migration on Data Center Energy Saving 759

Soramichi Akiyama, Takahiro Hirofuchi, and Shinichi Honiden

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