Research Advances in Cloud Computing

Chapter 1. Towards Performance and Dependability Bench marking of Cloud Computing.- Chapter 2. Big data Security and Privacy Issues in Cloud.- Chapter 3. Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing: Concepts, State of-the-art, and Research Challenges.- Chapter 4. Key management hierarchies for data access control in cloud.- Chapter 5. Accounting models in Cloud Computing.- Chapter 6. Data Analytics in Cloud-A streaming approach.- Chapter 7. Infrastructure Cloud and Performance.- Chapter 8. Cloud Computing for Big Data Analytics.- Chapter 9. Cloud Storage Techniques.- Chapter 10. Identity and Permission Management Challenges for Platform Services in Cloud computing.- Chapter 11. Container-based virtualization and security concerns in them.- Chapter 12. Applications of trusted computing in cloud computing.- Chapter 13. Investigating the possibility of data leakage in time of live VM migration.- Chapter 14. How Cloud Computing Can Transform Businesses?.- Chapter 15. Brokering of Cloud Services.- Chapter 16. Virtualization Security.- Chapter 17. Cloud Service Monitoring-Open Issues and Research Directions.

Dr. Sanjay Chaudhary is a Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India. His research areas are data analytics, cloud computing, and ICT applications in agriculture and rural development. He has authored four books, six book chapters, and published more than hundred research papers and ten literary articles in international conferences, workshops, and journals. He has served on the program committees of leading international conferences and workshops, and he is also a member of the review committees of leading journals. He holds a doctorate degree in computer science from Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad, India. Earlier, he worked as a Professor and Dean (Academics Programs) at DA-IICT. He has also worked on various large-scale software development projects for the corporate sector, co-operative sector, and government organizations. He is actively involved in various consultancy and enterprise application development projects.

Gaurav Somani is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Central University of Rajasthan (Ajmer), India. He has submitted his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from MNIT, Jaipur, India. His research interests include distributed systems, network security, cloud computing, and open-source technologies. He has published number of papers in various conferences and journals of international repute and is a reviewer of many top journals. Some of his top papers are published in highly reputed journals such as Computer Networks, Annals of Telecommunications, Computer Communications, IEEE Cloud Computing, Computers and Electrical Engineering, FGCS, and IEEE Cloud. He has written a book on "Scheduling and Isolation in Virtualization" which is published by VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Publishers, Germany. This book is used as a text/reference book in some graduate-level programs across the globe. He is also a part of

"This book includes recent research trends in cloud computing. It covers a wide range of research topics, some of which will be of interest to cloud users and others to cloud vendors." (Seon Yeong Han, Computing Reviews, August 08, 2019)