Secure communication using dynamic VPN provisioning in an Inter-Cloud environment

Most of the current cloud computing platforms offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model, which aims to provision basic virtualised computing resources as on-demand and dynamic services. Nevertheless, a single cloud does not have limitless resources to offer to its users, hence the notion of an Inter-Cloud enviroment where a cloud can use the infrastructure resources of other clouds. However, there is no common framework in existence that allows the srevice owners to seamlessly provision even some basic services across multiple cloud service providers, albeit not due to any inherent incompatibility or proprietary nature of the foundation technologies on which these cloud platforms are built. In this paper we present a novel solution which aims to cover a gap in a subsection of this problem domain. Our solution offer a security architecture that enables service owners to provision a dynamic and service-oriented secure virtual private network on top of multiple cloud IaaS providers. It does this by leveraging the scalability, robustness and flexibility of peer- to-peer overlay techniques to eliminate the manual configuration, key management and peer churn problems encountered in setting up the secure communication channels dynamically, between different components of a typical service that is deployed on multiple clouds. We present the implementation details of our solution as well as experimental results carried out on two commercial clouds

Dynamic virtual private network provisioning from multiple cloud infrastructure service providers

The Cloud infrastructure service providers currently provision basic virtualized computing resources as on demand and dynamic services but there is no common framework in existence that allows the seamless provisioning of even these basic services across multiple cloud service providers, although this is not due to any inherent incompatibility or proprietary nature of the foundation technologies on which these cloud platforms are built. We present a solution idea which aims to provide a dynamic and service oriented provisioning of secure virtual private networks on top of multiple cloud infrastructure service providers. This solution leverages the benefits of peer to peer overlay networks, i.e., the flexibility and scalability to handle the churn of nodes joining and leaving the VPNs and can adapt the topology of the VPN as per the requirements of the applications utilizing its intercloud secure communication framework

Trust Model for Optimized Cloud Services

Cloud computing with its inherent advantages draws attention for business critical applications, but concurrently expects high level of trust in cloud service providers. Reputation-based trust is emerging as a good choice to model trust of cloud service providers based on available evidence. Many existing reputation based systems either ignore or give less importance to uncertainty linked with the evidence. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty model and define our approach to compute opinion for cloud service providers. Using subjective logic operators along with the computed opinion values, we propose mechanisms to calculate the reputation of cloud service providers. We evaluate and compare our proposed model with existing reputation models

Research support for seafood export production

Marine capture fisheries contributed nearly 60-65% of the total fish production during the past decade. Out of the total marine landing of 1.4 million metric tonnes comprising a variety of items, only a few selected species found their way into the export market. During the 1981-85 period, the volume of processed marine products exported from India was in the range of 70,000 to 92,000 tonnes per annum. Among the export items one single item, namely, frozen shrimp constituted the bulk, amounting to more than 60% by volume and 85% by value. The demand for different fishery items already in the export markets and several new items for which India has potential for production is on the increase in the international markets. Mainly on account of production constraints we have however been unable to fully avail ourselves of the favourable market opportunities

Estimation of accidental gaps in the data on Sample survey of marine fish landings

In sample surveys carried out to estimate the monthly marine fish landings, instances often arise when the relevant data in parts are lacking. A statistical method for the estimation of such gaps has been developed which seems to meet the requirement within limits

Exploitation and utilization of Marine Fishery Resources

Our marine fish landings, which had been at 1.08 million tonnes in 1970, increased to about 1.24 million tonnes in 1980, registering an increase of about 15% over a decade. The current level of production is estimated to be about 1.5 million tonnes. Thus, we are exploiting only an insignificant part of our available resources in the sea

Soluble protein isolated from low cost fish and fish wastes

The method of preparation, composition, amino acid content, protein efficiency ratio and areas of possible application of water soluble protein isolates from low cost fish and fish wastes are discussed in detail in this communication