Then, we describe an architecture of the distributed cloud along with the enabling technologies. We also carry out a case study on service deployment and discovery in a three-layer distributed cloud ...

Distributed is an entirely new operating environment, where cloud infrastructure and services are physically located in multiple, dispersed environments: on-premise data centers, multiple public ...

The large-scale, dynamic, and heterogeneous nature of cloud computing poses numerous security challenges. But the cloud's main challenge is to provide a robust authorization mechanism that ...