Cloud Service Composition using Firefly Optimization Algorithm and Fuzzy Logic

—Cloud computing involves the dynamic provision of virtualized and scalable resources over the Internet as services. Different types of services with the same functionality but different non-functionality features may be delivered in a cloud environment in response to customer requests, which may need to be combined to satisfy the customer's complex requirements. Recent research has focused on combining unique and loosely-coupled services into a preferred system. An optimized composite service consists of formerly existing single and simple services combined to provide an optimal composite service, thereby improving the quality of service (QoS). In recent years, cloud computing has driven the rapid proliferation of multi-provision cloud service compositions, in which cloud service providers can provide multiple services simultaneously. Service composition fulfils a variety of user needs in a variety of scenarios. The composite request (service request) in a multi-cloud environment requires atomic services (service candidates) located in multiple clouds. Service composition combines atomic services from multiple clouds into a single service. Since cloud services are rapidly growing and their Quality of Service (QoS) is widely varying, finding the necessary services and composing them with quality assurances is an increasingly challenging technical task. This paper presents a method that uses the firefly optimization algorithm (FOA) and fuzzy logic to balance multiple QoS factors and satisfy service composition constraints. Experimental results prove that the proposed method outperforms previous ones in terms of response time, availability, and energy consumption.