Project Proposal

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Title:

The Transportation Cloud—investigating the application of transportation infrastructure to the concepts cloud computing.

Summary:

Cloud computing is an emerging computing area that addresses the provision of resources in the form of services in a dynamic and scalable fashion over the Internet. Users of the cloud are not required to have knowledge or control over the infrastructure or resources they use and act solely as service users according to a service level agreement. Cloud computing generally incorporates three distinct service models, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). This project will investigate the application of transportation infrastructure to the concepts of cloud computing. An existing framework for integrating transportation information from independent systems will serve as a case study. This framework serves as a platform for developing large-scale services using the integrated information and an extension to this framework is to be developed to support Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and especially, Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Prior work:

This project is based on a framework has been built by Dr. Rene Meier and his fellows, which was constructed to support context-aware global smart space application using information that is distributed across independent systems. An instance of the framework is iTransIT which is motivated by the needs of Dublin City to enable information integration and sharing across independent Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and to provide pervasive context-aware user services.  The transportation cloud will extend of iTransIT framework, which will enable the existing framework to enable sharing and integrating information in the manner of services of cloud computing.

Research Aims:

Research the emerging cloud computing technique, extend the cloud computing to the scope of context-aware the global smart space and investigate the application of transportation infrastructure to the concepts cloud computing.

Proposed methodlogy/implementation approach:

Firstly, carry out a comprehensive background reading about the state-of-art of cloud computing and service-oriented computing. Secondly, based on the previous work, investigate the feasibility and methodology of merging iTransIT framework to the concept of cloud computing. Thirdly, design the cloud computing framework and implement and test it on a prove-of-concept level. Lastly, examine and analysis the result of the test and summarize the achievement of the research.

Evaluation criteria:

This Transportation Cloud Framework should be proved valid theoretically. And a prove-of –concept application of this framework will be built and tested. Based on this application, features of cloud computing, QoS, and performance of the framework can be evaluated.

Workplan:

Project stage	Completed work	Date
Background knowledge preparing	Get to know the iTransIT framework and get to know the cloud computing	10th Dec- 9th Apr
Submitting dissertation state of art and detailed hypothesis	State of the art and hypothesis	9th Apr
Feasibility analysis	Prove the transportation cloud can be implemented in theory.	8th May- 18th May
Investigate	Investigate the method  to implement iTransIT to concept of cloud computing	19st May- 31th May
Design	Design the transportation cloud	1st Jun- 20th Jun
Coding & Test	Test the transportation cloud on a prove-of-concept level	21th Jun- 22nd Jul
Result analysis	Analysis the result of  coding & testing	23rd Jul- 31st Jul
Thesis writing	Analysis all the previous researches have been done. Collect and synthesize all the document and result from the research  and finish the dissertation	1st Aug- 25th Aug
Demonstration of results of dissertation project		31st Aug- 2nd Sep
Submission of dissertation		10th Sep

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