A Scalable Architecture for Distributed OSGi in the Cloud

Hendrik Kuijs, Christoph Reich, Martin Knahl, Nathan Clarke

2016

Abstract

Elasticity is one of the essential characteristics for cloud computing. The presented use case is a Software as a Service for Ambient Assisted Living that is configurable and extensible by the user. By adding or deleting functionality to the application, the environment has to support the increase or decrease of computational demand by scaling. This is achieved by customizing the auto scaling components of a PaaS management platform and introducing new components to scale a distributed OSGi environment across virtual machines. We present different scaling and load balancing scenarios to show the mechanics of the involved components.

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Kuijs H., Reich C., Knahl M. and Clarke N. (2016). A Scalable Architecture for Distributed OSGi in the Cloud . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 2: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-182-3, pages 109-117. DOI: 10.5220/0005810301090117


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@conference{closer16,
author={Hendrik Kuijs and Christoph Reich and Martin Knahl and Nathan Clarke},
title={A Scalable Architecture for Distributed OSGi in the Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 2: CLOSER,},
year={2016},
pages={109-117},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005810301090117},
isbn={978-989-758-182-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 2: CLOSER,
TI - A Scalable Architecture for Distributed OSGi in the Cloud
SN - 978-989-758-182-3
AU - Kuijs H.
AU - Reich C.
AU - Knahl M.
AU - Clarke N.
PY - 2016
SP - 109
EP - 117
DO - 10.5220/0005810301090117