Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) are computing technologies that provide
services to consumers and businesses, allowing organizations to become more agile and …

Elasticity is a key feature in cloud computing, which distinguishes this paradigm from other
ones, such as cluster and grid computing. On the other hand, dynamic resource reallocation …

Dealing with the provisioning of cloud services granted by Security SLAs is a very
challenging research topic. At the state of the art, the main related issues involve:(i) …

The perception of lack of control over resources deployed in the cloud may represent one of
the critical factors for an organization to decide to cloudify or not their own services …

Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) has become an indispensable on-chip security
primitive for hardware security. Area and power efficient PUFs are required to sustain the …

The applications that rely on the combined use of multiple independent clouds pose a
challenge to the control of their security. The difficulty of this task resides on the lack of …

In the cloud computing context, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are contracts between
Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Cloud Service Customers (CSCs), stating the …

Summary Service Level Agreement (SLA) has recently garnered increasing attention in
cloud computing due to its capability in the definition and the monitoring of the Quality of …

In an IaaS cloud the physical infrastructure is controlled by service providers, including its
security monitoring aspect. Clients hosting their information system are incited to trust the …

An emerged technology that facilitates for processing and managing data that could be
stored on the servers in the remote location is termed as cloud computing. It also acts as a …