A Method to Solve the Interoperability between Clouds in Semantic Web of Things

Abstract

In the Semantic Web of Things (SWoT), different type of sensors will collect a large number of real-time data and heterogeneous information. How to deal with these data and provide support for decision-making is a problem. Cloud Computing mode is particularly suitable for handling the large data sets. It has recently emerged as a new paradigm for providing various services over the Internet. However, in order to provide better services to consumers, cloud providers have to establish partnerships with others, and they often use non-standard formats. So interoperability issues exist in cloud computing environments. In this paper, we analysis existing interoperability challenges. After that we formulate an Ontology based Cloud Service Broker and the semantic technology is the key catalyst to support the broker. Moreover, interoperability is determined at the data level as well as the service level. It is an important issue to discuss how to represent the cloud resources and services. We build upon the current state-of-the-art cloud ontologies to provide formally represented and then achieving interoperability.