Collaboration environment for JointCloud computing

Abstract

JointCloud computing is a new generation of cloud computing mode based on the cooperation among multicloud service entities. Through the deep integration of multicloud resources, it facilitates developers to customize cloud services by the method of “software definition, and to create cloud value. Achieving successful cloud service transactions is the most important challenge that JointCloud faces. This paper originally puts forward a supporting environment of cross-stakeholders peer-to-peer transactions, including resources and services, named JointCloud Cooperation Environment (JCCE). The core of JCCE architecture involves distributed cloud transaction, distributed cloud community, distributed cloud monitoring, and the blockchain-based distributed ledger system. In such primary services, the related information exchange techniques, especially value exchange techniques, are conducive to breaking the information asymmetry among the participants in JointCloud, creating win-win opportunities for each party, and forming strong support for the JointCloud computing business innovation. From the perspective of cloud service consumers, cloud service providers, and cloud service brokers, JCCEs consumption service mode, supply service mode, and consultation service mode are put forward to guide the transaction participants to apply the value-exchange service of JCCE efficiently and conveniently. Finally, with regard to the support service of value exchange, the operation mechanism of JCCE is expounded in different scenarios including cloud resource transaction, data transaction, and custom software service transaction.