TY - JOUR T1 - A Survey on Federation of Cloud Computing and Supporting Protocols AU - Mukundha, Chinthagunta AU - Prabha, I. Surya JO - International Journal of Soft Computing VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 6 PY - 2017 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-9503 DO - ijscomp.2017.1.6 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2017.1.6 KW - Cloud computing KW -vendor KW -standards KW -protocols KW -efficiency KW -reliability AB - Cloud computing is a new emerging model to provide services to the customers. In the market there are more number of cloud vendors to provide cloud resources to the users. To organize all these cloud vendors we need some common standards and protocols. The main aim of research in the field of cloud computing federation is to achieve Quality of Service (QoS), cost efficiency and reliability cost efficiency by interconnected clouds and using federation concept among them. ER -