CLOUD COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE USING MPLS-BASED NETWORK

Abstract

                  Cloud Computing as a utility computing, has the potential to transform most of the
IT industry, making software as a service. The new developers with innovative ideas for Internet services no longer require a large capital outlay in hardware to distribute their service or labor to operate it. They do not have to worry about overprovisioning for a service whose popularity does not meet their predictions, thus wasting costly resources, or underprovisioning to one that is becoming very popular, thus missing potential customers and revenue.
            Obviously because cloud computing relies on internet connection, then the performance of Internet connection will affect the viability of cloud computing. Cloud computing mengandalakan centralized remote storage on the cloud server, users access the data that will be in trouble if there is a problem or bottleneck of the network. MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) is a better method than to route IP packets. MPLS technology has advantages for sending packets with a shorter delay, because it replaces the IP header that requires a larger overhead than the MPLS header is smaller and shorter processing time when the packet arrives at the router. In this paper the test results will be discussed from the MPLS cloud computing system as the backbone network. Parameters to be tested is the delay, jitter, packet loss and throughput.

keyword : cloud computing, mpls