Load-balanced cloud service interface for the HiBA mobile cloud environment

In this paper, a load-balanced cloud service interface is designed and development for coping with a great amount of users in the HiBA (Hierarchical Brokering Architecture) mobile cloud. The load-balanced cloud service interface consists of three core functional modules: the cloud service interface node (CSIN), the CSI Manager, and the CSI Allocation Table, developed to match clients requests to CSINs. We deploy the proposed cloud service interface to the Microsofts public cloud, and conduct integrated tests to a travel application scenario, which show successful load-balanced effect in the mobile cloud environment.