User centric community clouds

• Author(s): Barraca, João Paulo Silva ; Matos, Alfredo ; Aguiar, Rui Luís
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/7928
• Origin: RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro
• Subject(s): Cloud infrastructure; Identity management; User-centric systems
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

With the evolution in cloud technologies, users are becoming acquainted with seamless service provision. Nevertheless, clouds are not a user centric technology, and users become completely dependent on service providers. We propose a novel concept for clouds, where users self-organize to create their clouds. We present such an architecture for user-centric clouds, which relies on self-managed clouds based on doctrine and on identity management concepts.