Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions (Computer Communications and Networks)

ISBN 10: 3319353039 / ISBN 13: 9783319353036

Published by Springer, 2016

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Print on Demand pp. 352.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions (Computer Communications and Networks)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319353039
• ISBN 13: 9783319353036
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.