An Architecture for Public and Open Submission Systems in the Cloud

Abstract

The advent of the Internet poses great challenges to the design of public submission systems as it eliminates traditional barriers, such as geographical location and costs associated to physical media and mailing, that helped keeping the number of submissions at bay. With open global access, it is very hard to estimate storage space and processing power required by this class of applications. In this paper we argue in favor of a Cloud Computing solution, and propose a general architecture in which to build open access, public submission systems. Furthermore, we demonstrate the feasibility of our approach with a real video submission application, where candidates that want to take part in a nationwide reality show can register by submitting a personal video clip.