Distributed Resource Identification Service for Cloud Environments

Resource identification in massive deployed distributed systems, like the cloud environments, is a common problem when multiple types of resources need to be managed. This is the case of platform as a service (PaaS) where the platform offers different types resources that are deployed in heterogeneous systems. While most of the solutions on the market follow a predefined architecture using common naming services in a centralized manner this paper proposes a new approach based on a distributed naming and resource identification service. The proposed solution allows a client to consume or communicate with a resource without having to deal with resource location or discovery protocols.