Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions

Part I: Limitations and Challenges of Cloud Environments

Attacks in Public Clouds: Can They Hinder the Rise of the Cloud?
Saeed Shafieian, Mohammad Zulkernine, and Anwar Haque

Distributed Database Management Systems: Architectural Design Choices for the Cloud
Joarder Mohammad Mustafa Kamal and Manzur Murshed

Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements for Cloud Environments: Issues and Challenges
Inderveer Chana and Sukhpal Singh

Part II: Current Developments and R&D Solutions

A Methodology for Cloud Security Risk Management
Mariam Kiran

SecDSIM: A Framework for Secure Data Storage and Identity Management in the Cloud
Shaga Praveen and G.R. Gangadharan

CloudReports: An Extensible Simulation Tool for Energy-Aware Cloud Computing Environments
Thiago Teixeira Sá, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Danielo G. Gomes

Cloud Computing: Efficient Congestion Control in Data Center Networks
Chi Harold Liu, Jian Shi, and Jun Fan

Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation in IaaS Cloud Computing
Md Hasanul Ferdaus and Manzur Murshed

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Cloud Applications
Lin Lin and Ping Lin

Part III: Advances in Cloud Technologies and Future Trends

Virtualization and Cloud Security: Benefits, Caveats and Future Developments
Flavio Lombardi and Roberto Di Pietro

Quality-of-Service Data Warehouse for the Selection of Cloud Services: A Recent Trend
Ahmad Karawash, Hamid Mcheick, and Mohamed Dbouk

Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches
Attila Kertesz

Security Aspects of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in Cloud Computing
Faria Mehak, Rahat Masood, Yumna Ghazi, Awais Shibli, and Sharifullah Khan

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, Flavien Quesnel, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, and Cédric Tedeschi