Experimental Study of Network Traffic Overhead in Cloud Environments

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to analyze and build upon a framework cloud computing environments based on our previous research [1]. Cloud computing has benefited the technological scene massively over the past few years. With this massive benefit comes some interesting questions regarding the performance and reliability of cloud computing architectures. By rigorously testing a virtual cloud environment, we will discuss open research challenges regarding the proposed framework. Cloud computing has a vast array of implementations as well as architectures, therefore it is critical to test a common cloud architecture and discover possible drawbacks and solutions for cloud computing environments.