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A Proposal of a Cloud-Oriented Security and Performance Simulator Provided as-a-Service

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Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2018)

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Abstract

The widespread diffusion of cloud computing is still slowed down by security and performance concerns. As a matter of fact, issues such as security and confidentiality of data on one hand, fluctuating performance on the other are still limiting factors for the switch from on-premise to cloud-hosted environments. This paper sketches the structure of a platform offering simulation services able to deal with both problems. Given the structure of a cloud application by means of a graph-based model, the simulator can help to discover and correct potential security and performance problems by using simulation combined with novel techniques for the verification of coverage of the application security requirements.

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  1. DIETI, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Valentina Casola & Alessandra De Benedictis

  2. DI, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Aversa, Italy

    Massimiliano Rak

  3. DING, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy

    Umberto Villano

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology , Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology , Islamabad, Pakistan

    Nadeem Javaid

  3. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology , Fukuoka, Japan

    Makoto Ikeda

  4. Department of Advanced Sciences, Hosei University , Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Casola, V., De Benedictis, A., Rak, M., Villano, U. (2019). A Proposal of a Cloud-Oriented Security and Performance Simulator Provided as-a-Service. In: Barolli, L., Javaid, N., Ikeda, M., Takizawa, M. (eds) Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 772. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93659-8_93

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