Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing

San Murugesan is editor-in-chief of IT Professional, director of BRITE Professional Services, and adjunct professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is a corporate trainer, a consultant, and an author. He is a former senior research fellow of the US National Research Council at NASA Ames Research Center, California, and served in various positions at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore. His expertise and interests span a range of areas: cloud computing, green IT, IT for emerging regions, Internet of Things (IoT), smart systems, and mobile applications. He is a co-editor of Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices (Wiley and IEEE Computer Society, 2012), Understanding and Implementing Green IT (IEEE Computer Society, 2011) and Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications (Information Science Reference, 2009). He serves as editor of Computer and edits and contributes to its "cloud cover" department. He also serves as associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing. He is standing chair of the new COMPSAC Symposium on IT in Practice (ITiP). Dr. Murugesan is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Fellow of IETE, and a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS). For further information, visit his web site at (http://www.bitly.com/sanprofile)Irena Bojanova, PhD, is a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She managed academic programs at Johns Hopkins University and PIsoft Ltd., and co-started OBS Ltd. (now CSC Bulgaria). She received her PhD in computer science / mathematics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and her MS and BS degrees in mathematics from Sofia University, Bulgaria.  Dr. Bojanova is the founding chair of IEEE CS Cloud Computing Special Technical Community, and acting editor-in-chief of IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing. She is also a co-chair of the IEEE Reliability Society IoT Technical Committee, and a founding member of the IEEE Technical Sub-Committee on Big Data. She is an associate editor-in-chief and the editor of the Trends Department of IT Professional and an associate editor of the International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI). She has served as general co-chair of the IEEE International  Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015) and general chair of the IEEE IT Professional Conference 2014. She writes cloud and IoT blogs for the IEEE CS's Computing Now (http://www.computer.org/) accessed November 22, 2015). Dr. Bojanova is a senior member of IEEE CS and can be reached at (mail to:irena.bojanova@computer.org).

• About the Editors xiiAbout the Authors xivReviewers xxxviForeword xxxviiiPreface xxxixAcknowledgments xlvPart I Introduction to Cloud Computing 11 Cloud Computing: An Overview 3San Murugesan and Irena BojanovaPart II Cloud Services 152 Cloud Services and Service Providers 17K. Chandrasekaran and Alaka Ananth3 Mobile Cloud Computing 29Saeid Abolfazli, Zohreh Sanaei, Mohammad Hadi Sanaei, Mohammad Shojafar, and Abdullah Gani4 Community Clouds 41Amin M. Khan, Felix Freitag, and Leandro Navarro5 Government Clouds 52Sean Rhody and Dan Dunn6 Cloud]Based Development Environments: PaaS 62Mehmet N. Aydin, Nazim Ziya Perdahci, and Bahadir OdevciPart III Cloud Frameworks and Technologies 717 Cloud Reference Frameworks 73Kapil Bakshi and Larry Beser8 Virtualization: An Overview 89Jim Sweeney9 Cloud Network and I/O Virtualization 102Kapil Bakshi and Craig Hill10 Cloud Networks 115Saurav Kanti Chandra and Krishnananda Shenoy11 Wireless Datacenter Networks 128Yong Cui and Ivan Stojmenovic12 Open]Source Cloud Software Solutions 139G. R. Gangadharan, Deepnarayan Tiwari, Lalit Sanagavarapu, Shakti Mishra, Abraham Williams, and Srimanyu Timmaraju13 Developing Software for Cloud: Opportunities and Challenges for Developers 150K. Chandrasekaran and C. MarimuthuPart IV Cloud Integration and Standards 16314 Cloud Portability and Interoperability 165Beniamino Di Martino, Giuseppina Cretella, and Antonio Esposito15 Cloud Federation and Geo]Distribution 178William Culhane, Patrick Eugster, Chamikara Jayalath, Kirill Kogan, and Julian Stephen16 Cloud Standards 191Andy Edmonds, Thijs Metsch, Alexis Richardson, Piyush Harsh, Wolfgang Ziegler, Philip Kershaw, Alan Sill, Mark A. Carlson, Alex Heneveld, Alexandru]Florian Antonescu, and Thomas Michael BohnertPart V Cloud Security, Privacy, and Compliance 20517 Cloud Security: Issues and Concerns 207Pierangela Samarati and Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati18 Securing the Clouds: Methodologies and Practices 220Simon Liu19 Cloud Forensics 233Shams Zawoad and Ragib Hasan20 Privacy, Law, and Cloud Services 245Carol M. Hayes and Jay P. Kesan21 Ensuring Privacy in Clouds 255Travis Breaux and Siani Pearson22 Compliance in Clouds 267Thorsten Humberg and Jan JürjensPart VI Cloud Performance, Reliability, and Availability 27523 Cloud Capacity Planning and Management 277Yousri Kouki, Frederico Alvares, and Thomas Ledoux24 Fault Tolerance in the Cloud 291Kashif Bilal, Osman Khalid, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan, Samee U. Khan, and Albert Y. Zomaya25 Cloud Energy Consumption 301Dan C. Marinescu26 Cloud Modeling and Simulation 315Peter Altevogt, Wolfgang Denzel, and Tibor Kiss27 Cloud Testing: An Overview 327Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer28 Testing the Cloud and Testing as a Service 338Nitin Dangwal, Neha Mehrotra Dewan, and Sonal Sachdeva29 Cloud Service Evaluation 349Zheng Li, Liam O’Brien, and Rajiv RanjanPart VII Cloud Migration and Management 36130 Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy and Policy 363Eric Carlson31 Cloud Brokers 372Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer and Bharadwaj Veeravalli32 Migrating Applications to Clouds 383Jyhjong Lin33 Identity and Access Management 396Edwin Sturrus and Olga Kulikova34 OAuth Standard for User Authorization of Cloud Services 406Piotr Tysowski35 Distributed Access Control in Cloud Computing Systems 417K. Chandrasekaran and Manoj V. Thomas36 Cloud Service Level Agreement 433Salman A. Baset37 Automatic Provisioning of Intercloud Resources driven by Nonfunctional Requirements of Applications 446Jungmin Son, Diana Barreto, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Rajkumar Buyya38 Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing 462David G. Gordon39 Cloud Economics 476Sowmya KarunakaranPart VIII Cloud Applications and Case Studies 48940 Engineering Applications of the Cloud 491Kincho H. Law, Jack C. P. Cheng, Renate Fruchter, and Ram D. Sriram41 Educational Applications of the Cloud 505V. K. Cody Bumgardner, Victor Marek, and Doyle Friskney42 Personal Applications of Clouds 517Cameron Seay, Montressa Washington, and Rudy J. Watson43 Cloud Gaming 524Wei Cai, Fangyuan Chi, and Victor C. M. LeungPart IX Big Data and Analytics in Clouds 53744 An Introduction to Big Data 539Mark Smiley45 Big Data in a Cloud 551Mark Smiley46 Cloud]Hosted Databases 562Sherif Sakr47 Cloud Data Management 572Lingfang Zeng, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, and Yang Wang48 Large]Scale Analytics in Clouds 582Vladimir Dimitrov49 Cloud Programming Models (MapReduce) 596Vladimir Dimitrov50 Developing Elastic Software for the Cloud 609Shigeru Imai, Pratik Patel, and Carlos A. Varela51 Cloud Services for Distributed Knowledge Discovery 628Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, and Paolo Trunfio52 Cloud Knowledge Modeling and Management 640Pierfrancesco Bellini, Daniele Cenni, and Paolo NesiPart X Cloud Prospects 65353 Impact of the Cloud on IT Professionals and the IT Industry 655Cameron Seay, Montressa Washington, and Rudy J. Watson54 Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets 664Nir Kshetri and Lailani L. Alcantara55 Research Topics in Cloud Computing 676Anand Kumar, B. Vijayakumar, and R. K. Mittal56 Cloud Outlook: The Future of the Clouds 682San Murugesan and Irena BojanovaIndex 687