A Cloudedge-Combined Data Placement Strategy Based On User Access Regions

To improve the availability of data in the cloud and avoid vendor lock-in risk, multi-cloud storage is attracting more and more attentions. However, accessing data from the cloud usually has some disadvantages such as higher latency and more bandwidth-consuming. Edge computing, which has become popular in recent years, could effectively solve the above problems while it usually reduces availability. Storage only in the cloud or edge environment is limited by many factors. To this end, we build mathematical model which is abstracted from real access mode of users in consideration of multi-cloud and edge. This paper presents a method combined NSGAII with multi-group method which has better ability of global search to help users determine cloud and edge services to store and access data object. A large number of experiments using real service provider information demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods and effectiveness of it.