Modeling and Analysis of Enterprise Cloud Bus Using a Petri Net Based Approach

Agent based Cloud computing technology has become a predominant domain nowadays due to rapid increase in enterprise service applications that are built from various services offered by different cloud service providers. In our previous work, we have proposed an abstraction layer of SaaS architecture for Inter-cloud environment, called Enterprise Cloud Bus System (ECBS) and modeled it using Unified Modeling Language (UML). In this work, we have proposed a conceptual architecture of Multi-agent based Enterprise Cloud Bus System (ECBS) and modelled its dynamics using Petri Net (ECBP) based approach. The proposed approach will be beneficial for analyzing low level Petri Nets of any cloud based models and has the advantage of being able to model dynamic facets of the Multi-agent based cloud system that can handle multiple agent operations and its execution logics. Further, the proposed ECBP model is capable to analyze the behavioral facets of Enterprise Cloud Bus System like, fairness, boundedness, liveliness, safeness, etc. in a dead lock—free environment.