@article {16363,
	title = {Enhancing Federated Cloud Management with an Integrated Service Monitoring Approach},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF GRID COMPUTING},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {699{\textendash}720},
	abstract = {Cloud Computing enables the construction and the provisioning of virtualized service-based applications in a simple and cost effective outsourcing to dynamic service environments. Cloud Federations envisage a distributed, heterogeneous environment consisting of various cloud infrastructures by aggregating different {IaaS} provider capabilities coming from both the commercial and the academic area. In this paper, we introduce a federated cloud management solution that operates the federation through utilizing cloud-brokers for various {IaaS} providers. In order to enable an enhanced provider selection and inter-cloud service executions, an integrated monitoring approach is proposed which is capable of measuring the availability and reliability of the provisioned services in different providers. To this end, a minimal metric monitoring service has been designed and used together with a service monitoring solution to measure cloud performance. The transparent and cost effective operation on commercial clouds and the capability to simultaneously monitor both private and public clouds were the major design goals of this integrated cloud monitoring approach. Finally, the evaluation of our proposed solution is presented on different private {IaaS} systems participating in federations.},
	issn = {1570-7873},
	author = {Attila Kert{\'e}sz and G. Kecskem{\'e}ti and M. Oriol and P. Kotcauer and Acs, S. and M. Rodr{\'\i}gez and O. Merc{\`e} and A. Marosi and J. Marco and X. Franch}
}
@conference {16338,
	title = {A holistic service provisioning solution for Federated Cloud infrastructures},
	booktitle = {2012 1st International Workshop on European Software Services and Systems Research - Results and Challenges, S-Cube 2012},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {25{\textendash}26},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {Cloud Computing builds on the latest achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid Computing, Service-oriented computing, business process modeling and virtualization. As this new computing paradigm was mostly lead by companies, several proprietary systems arisen. Recently, alongside these commercial systems, several smaller-scale privately owned systems are maintained and developed. In this paper we present our research results performed within the S-Cube European {FP}7 {NoE} project to enable automated service provisioning for users on a highly dynamic infrastructure consisting of multiple Cloud providers. We developed a Federated Cloud Management architecture that provides unified access to a federated Cloud that aggregates multiple heterogeneous {IaaS} Cloud providers in a transparent manner. We have also incorporated an integrated monitoring approach that enables more reliable provider selection in these heterogeneous environments. {\textcopyright} 2012 IEEE.},
	author = {Attila Kert{\'e}sz and G. Kecskem{\'e}ti and N{\'e}meth, Zsolt and M. Oriol and X. Franch}
}
@conference {16334,
	title = {Integrated Monitoring Approach for Seamless Service Provisioning in Federated Clouds},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th international Euromicro conference on parallel, distributed and network-based processing},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {567{\textendash}574},
	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
	organization = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
	address = {Los Alamitos},
	abstract = {Cloud Computing offers simple and cost effective outsourcing in dynamic service environments, and allows the construction of service-based applications using virtualization. By aggregating the capabilities of various {IaaS} cloud providers, federated clouds can be built. Managing such a distributed, heterogeneous environment requires sophisticated interoperation of adaptive coordinating components. In this paper we introduce an integrated federated management and monitoring approach that enables autonomous service provisioning in fed- erated clouds. In this architecture, cloud brokers manage the number and the location of the utilized virtual machines for the received service requests. In order to provide seamless service executions, a state of the art monitoring solution is proposed that supports cloud selection performed by the management layer of the architecture. Our solution is able to cope with highly dynamic service executions by federating heterogeneous cloud infrastructures in a transparent and autonomous manner.},
	author = {Attila Kert{\'e}sz and G. Kecskem{\'e}ti and A. Marosi and M. Oriol and X. Franch and J. Marco},
	editor = {Stotzka, R. and Schiffers, M. and Cotronis, Y.}
}
@conference {KKO11,
	title = {Integrated Monitoring Approach for Seamless Service Provisioning in Federated Clouds},
	booktitle = {Accepted for the 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (PDP {\textquoteright}12)},
	year = {2011},
	author = {Attila Kert{\'e}sz and G. Kecskem{\'e}ti and M. Oriol and A. Marosi and X. Franch and J. Marco}
}
