[2102.12717] Cloud Broker: A Systematic Mapping Study Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing arXiv:2102.12717 (cs) [Submitted on 25 Feb 2021 ( v1 ), last revised 1 Jan 2023 (this version, v2)] Title: Cloud Broker: A Systematic Mapping Study Authors: Hoda Taheri , Faeze Ramezani , Neda Mohammadi , Parisa Khoshdel , Bahareh Taghavi , Neda Khorasani , Saeid Abrishami , Abbas Rasoolzadegan View a PDF of the paper titled Cloud Broker: A Systematic Mapping Study, by Hoda Taheri and 7 other authors View PDF Abstract: In a cloud environment, a cloud broker is an important entity that works as an independent middleware between cloud customers and providers to address issues and conduct negotiations related to satisfying both customer preferences and service provider profits. In recent years, researchers have published many articles which directly or indirectly address this research area. A systematic method is vital for extracting all search spaces (journals, conferences, and workshops) and primary studies (articles) conducted in the cloud broker field and then selecting some of the highest quality studies. The proposed systematic review includes a comprehensive three-tier search strategy (manual search, backward snowballing, and database search). The detailed explanation of the reviewing process is inserted in Appendix A. In the search methodology, qualitative criteria have been defined to select studies with the highest quality and the most relevance among all search spaces. In the present study, out of 1,928 extracted search spaces, 171 search spaces have been selected based on the defined quality criteria. Then, 1,298 articles have been extracted from these 171 selected search spaces. As a result, 496 high-quality papers have been selected among the mentioned papers. The chosen papers were published in prestigious journals, conferences, and workshops from 2009 through 2019. In the current Systematic Mapping Study (SMS), eight research questions have been designed for the purpose of identifying information that is significant to the cloud broker field, such as the most critical and debated topics, existing trends and issues, active researchers and countries, commonly used techniques in building cloud brokers, evaluation methods, the amount of research conducted by year and the place of publication, and the most important active search spaces. Comments: 19 pages, 11 Tables, 16 figures Subjects: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) ; Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) Cite as: arXiv:2102.12717 [cs.DC] (or arXiv:2102.12717v2 [cs.DC] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2102.12717 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Related DOI : https://doi.org/10.1109/TSC.2024.3442541 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Neda Mohammadi [ view email ] [v1] Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:36:21 UTC (5,317 KB) [v2] Sun, 1 Jan 2023 07:29:46 UTC (1,510 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Cloud Broker: A Systematic Mapping Study, by Hoda Taheri and 7 other authors View PDF view license Current browse context: cs.DC < prev | next > new | recent | 2021-02 Change to browse by: cs cs.DL cs.NI References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar DBLP - CS Bibliography listing | bibtex Abbas Rasoolzadegan export BibTeX citation Loading... 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