Explores key challenges and solutions to assured cloud computing today
and provides a provocative look at the face of cloud computing
tomorrow
This book offers readers a comprehensive suite of solutions for
resolving many of the key challenges to achieving high levels of
assurance in cloud computing. The distillation of critical research
findings generated by the Assured Cloud Computing Center of Excellence
(ACC-UCoE) of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, it provides
unique insights into the current and future shape of robust, dependable,
and secure cloud-based computing and data cyberinfrastructures.
A survivable and distributed cloud-computing-based infrastructure can
enable the configuration of any dynamic systems-of-systems that contain
both trusted and partially trusted resources and services sourced from
multiple organizations. To assure mission-critical computations and
workflows that rely on such systems-of-systems it is necessary to ensure
that a given configuration does not violate any security or reliability
requirements. Furthermore, it is necessary to model the trustworthiness
of a workflow or computation fulfillment to a high level of assurance.
In presenting the substance of the work done by the ACC-UCoE, this book
provides a vision for assured cloud computing illustrating how
individual research contributions relate to each other and to the big
picture of assured cloud computing. In addition, the book:
- Explores dominant themes in cloud-based systems, including design
correctness, support for big data and analytics, monitoring and
detection, network considerations, and performance
- Synthesizes heavily cited earlier work on topics such as DARE, trust
mechanisms, and elastic graphs, as well as newer research findings on
topics, including R-Storm, and RAMP transactions
- Addresses assured cloud computing concerns such as game theory, stream
processing, storage, algorithms, workflow, scheduling, access control,
formal analysis of safety, and streaming
Bringing together the freshest thinking and applications in one of
today's most important topics, Assured Cloud Computing is a must-read
for researchers and professionals in the fields of computer science and
engineering, especially those working within industrial, military, and
governmental contexts. It is also a valuable reference for advanced
students of computer science.
