The paper highlights existing research voids in defining and designing binding and enforceable service level agreements (SLA) between three actors in the cloud computing framework defined by NIST – the cloud brokers, the cloud consumers and the cloud providers. The paper presents a techno-managerial perspective to the issue of how cloud brokers would handle service provisioning and whether binding service level agreements would be useful tools for the NIST cloud framework to function. A template constituent

An efficient location service is a prerequisite to any robust, effective and precise location information aided Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) routing protocol. Locant, presented in this paper is a nature inspired location service which derives inspiration from the insect colony framework, and it is designed to work with a host of location information aided MANET routing protocols. Using an extensive set of simulation experiments, we have compared the performance of Locant with RLS, SLS and DLS, and found th