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Cloud Computing

Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Zaigham Mahmood

    1. University of Derby, United Kingdom

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  • Focuses on practical mechanisms to resolve existing concerns and limitations
  • Provides a broad perspective which is neither too introductory, too specialised, or too product-oriented
  • Relevant to business managers, enterprise architects and cloud providers, as well as researchers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Limitations and Challenges of Cloud Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Attacks in Public Clouds: Can They Hinder the Rise of the Cloud?

      • Saeed Shafieian, Mohammad Zulkernine, Anwar Haque
      Pages 3-22

    3. Distributed Database Management Systems: Architectural Design Choices for the Cloud

      • Joarder Mohammad Mustafa Kamal, Manzur Murshed
      Pages 23-50

    4. Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements for Cloud Environments: Issues and Challenges

      • Inderveer Chana, Sukhpal Singh
      Pages 51-72

  3. Current Developments and R&D Solution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. A Methodology for Cloud Security Risks Management

      • Mariam Kiran
      Pages 75-104

    3. SecDSIM: A Framework for Secure Data Storage and Identity Management in the Cloud

      • Shaga Praveen, G. R. Gangadharan
      Pages 105-125

    4. CloudReports: An Extensible Simulation Tool for Energy-Aware Cloud Computing Environments

      • Thiago Teixeira Sá, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Danielo G. Gomes
      Pages 127-142

    5. Cloud Computing: Efficient Congestion Control in Data Center Networks

      • Chi Harold Liu, Jian Shi, Jun Fan
      Pages 143-177

    6. Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation in IaaS Cloud Computing

      • Md Hasanul Ferdaus, Manzur Murshed
      Pages 179-208

    7. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Cloud Applications

      • Lin Lin, Ping Lin
      Pages 209-233

  4. Advances in Cloud Technologies and Future Trends

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Virtualization and Cloud Security: Benefits, Caveats, and Future Developments

      • Flavio Lombardi, Roberto Di Pietro
      Pages 237-255

    3. Quality-of-Service Data Warehouse for the Selection of Cloud Services: A Recent Trend

      • Ahmad Karawash, Hamid Mcheick, Mohamed Dbouk
      Pages 257-276

    4. Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches

      • Attila Kertesz
      Pages 277-296

    5. Security Aspects of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in Cloud Computing

      • Faria Mehak, Rahat Masood, Yumna Ghazi, Muhammad Awais Shibli, Sharifullah Khan
      Pages 297-324

    6. Beyond the Clouds: How Should Next Generation Utility Computing Infrastructures Be Designed?

      • Marin Bertier, Frédéric Desprez, Gilles Fedak, Adrien Lebre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Jonathan Pastor et al.
      Pages 325-345

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 347-352
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About this book

This book reviews the challenging issues that present barriers to greater implementation of the cloud computing paradigm, together with the latest research into developing potential solutions. Topics and features: presents a focus on the most important issues and limitations of cloud computing, covering cloud security and architecture, QoS and SLAs; discusses a methodology for cloud security management, and proposes a framework for secure data storage and identity management in the cloud; introduces a simulation tool for energy-aware cloud environments, and an efficient congestion control system for data center networks; examines the issues of energy-aware VM consolidation in the IaaS provision, and software-defined networking for cloud related applications; reviews current trends and suggests future developments in virtualization, cloud security, QoS data warehouses, cloud federation approaches, and DBaaS provision; predicts how the next generation of utility computing infrastructures will be designed.

Reviews

“This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and potential solutions to problems associated with cloud computing. … Each chapter includes references. Given the number of authors involved in the work, the editor did a good job of controlling the uniformity of the book's structure. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.” (J. Beidler, Choice, Vol. 52 (9), May, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Derby, United Kingdom

    Zaigham Mahmood

About the editor

Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK; Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education, UK; Professor Extraordinaire at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; and Foreign Professor at NUST Islamabad, Pakistan. His other publications include the successful Springer books Continued Rise of the Cloud: Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.

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