Ad hoc Cloud Computing: From Concept to Realization

TL;DR

This paper introduces a comprehensive solution for ad hoc cloud computing that utilizes unreliable, non-exclusive resources from existing infrastructures, based on an architecture inspired by BOINC.

Contribution

It presents the first complete, integrated architecture for ad hoc cloud computing leveraging existing sporadic and unreliable resources.

Findings

Developed an end-to-end architecture for ad hoc clouds

Demonstrated resource harvesting from unreliable infrastructures

Outlined solutions for key challenges in ad hoc cloud environments

Abstract

This paper presents the first complete, integrated and end-to-end solution for ad hoc cloud computing environments. Ad hoc clouds harvest resources from existing sporadically available, non-exclusive (i.e. primarily used for some other purpose) and unreliable infrastructures. In this paper we discuss the problems ad hoc cloud computing solves and outline our architecture which is based on BOINC.