Distributed and Cloud Computing

Chapter 9

Ubiquitous Clouds and the Internet of Things

Chapter Outline

Summary

9.1 Cloud Trends in Supporting Ubiquitous Computing

9.1.1 Use of Clouds for HPC/HTC and Ubiquitous Computing

9.1.2 Large-Scale Private Clouds at NASA and CERN

9.1.3 Cloud Mashups for Agility and Scalability

9.1.4 Cloudlets for Mobile Cloud Computing

9.2 Performance of Distributed Systems and the Cloud

9.2.1 Review of Science and Research Clouds

9.2.2 Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC)

9.2.3 Performance Metrics for HPC/HTC Systems

9.2.4 Quality of Service in Cloud Computing

9.2.5 Benchmarking MPI, Azure, EC2, MapReduce, and Hadoop

9.3 Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Things

9.3.1 The Internet of Things for Ubiquitous Computing

9.3.2 Radio-Frequency Identification ...