Can Cloud Service Get His Family? A Step Towards Service Family Detecting

In cloud computing environment, an application is always composed of several service components. A collection of service components is called a service family, and we name the cloud service components as service family members. In this paper, we propose a solution named Icebreaker to assemble service components belonging to the same application without sniffing tenants´ privacy. Icebreaker characterizes each service component with basic resource consuming information and proposes a new distance calculating algorithm named iEntropy to distinct service components. We adaptively adopt Affinity Propagation (AP) clustering algorithm and maximum Silhouette index to identify the number of service family and assemble the service family members. Experiments are conducted on RUBiS, Hadoop and ApacheBench clusters with 169 VMs. Evaluation results show that Icebreaker can get 96.45% accuracy.