Comparison of Virtual Networks Solutions for Community Clouds

Abstract: Cloud computing has a huge importance and big impact nowadays on the IT world.The idea of community clouds has emerged recently in order to satisfy several user expectations. Clommunity is a European project that aims to provide a design and implementation of a self-congured, fully distributed, decentralized, scalable and robust cloud for a community of users across a commmunity network. One of the aspects to analyze in this design is which kind of Virtual Private Network (VPN) is going to beused to interconnect the nodes of the community members interested in access cloud services. In this thesis we will study, compare and analyze the possibility of using Tinc, IPOP or SDN-based solutions such as OpenFlow to establish such a VPN.