Computer Communications and Networks

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 Sa, 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, Frederic Desprez, Gilles Fedak, Adrien Lebre, Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Jonathan Pastor, Flavien Quesnel, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, and Cedric Tedeschi