A Cloud PAAS for High Scale, Function, and Velocity Mobile Applications - With Reference Application as the Fully Connected Car
Cloud Computing is a term applied to large, hosted datacenters, usually geographically distributed, which offer various computational services on a “utility” basis. Clouds are most often serving Developers or Businesses, or Large Enterprises as a new way to host applications. These applications are usually delivered to client PC’s or PC-like smart phones. We consider the case where the clients are highly mobile, very interactive, and very functional, such as in a car. The car is in and of itself a rich, three screen client (Phone-like, Television-like, Computer-like) which can host complicated application scenarios, with some logic in the car, and other logic “in the Cloud”. Additionally, the car can represent a collection of next generation sensors eventing up to the cloud. We explored the resultant needed capabilities of such a cloud, and concluded that a very rich Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Cloud Computing platform, far beyond the capabilities of today’s PaaS system, would be required to support such a large collection of mobile devices. We have generated an architecture for this platform from collecting requirements from several Connected Car applications, and are now modeling the results simulating millions of cars on the road per country. The PaaS system emerged with different mechanisms to other PaaS systems in existence.