Cloud Computing
Research Group (CCRG) at UNF
Welcome to the Cloud Computing Research Group
Acknowledgement: Research supported by the
Fidelity Distinguished Professorship awarded to Dr. Ahuja
Cloud
computing is a transformative approach to computing involving many aspects,
including large-scale distributed algorithms that run on massive datasets,
high-end computers residing in massive datacenters, rapid provisioning of
computing resources on-demand, as well as mobile and web-based applications
accessible from anywhere in the world. Cloud computing promises to
fundamentally transform how we interact with information and is changing the
way in which businesses, governments and consumers work, live, play and
socialize. Cloud computing brings to the table a very compelling economic
business model that is very important to large organizations. Applications of cloud computing are as
diverse as human resource applications, mobile applications, high-performance
scientific applications, and bioinformatics. The cloud even brings environmental
benefits since users share computing resources thus using these resources more
efficiently and because the data centers are typically located closer to power
generating sources the need to distribute electricity to widely scattered
computing resources is reduced. Clouds offer potentially unlimited
scalability and virtualization of resources so system management issues are
hidden from the end-user.
The Cloud Computing Research Group at UNF was established in Fall 2011 and focuses on infrastructure and performance evaluation and benchmarking of cloud computing platforms, cloud architectures, applications of cloud computing, cloud middleware, and security threats to cloud computing infrastructures. The research group is directed by Dr. Sanjay Ahuja. Faculty, students and other individuals interested in how the future of cloud computing evolves through research and education are welcome to contact Dr. Ahuja. He serves on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC). Dr. Ahuja and Dr. Roger Eggen are the lead faculty members of this research group.
Dr. Ahuja's Article on Cloud Security in
the Jacksonville Business Journal
Research Publications
Journal Publications
- Ahuja,
Sanjay, P., Komathukattil, D., A Survey of the State of
Cloud Security, Journal
of Network and Communication Technologies (NCT), Volume 1, No. 2, December 2012. http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/nct/article/view/21403
- Ahuja, Sanjay, P., Mani,
S., and Zambrano,
J., A Survey of the State of Cloud Computing
in Healthcare, Journal
of Network and Communication Technologies
(NCT), Volume 1, No.
2, December 2012. http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/nct/article/view/19240
- Ahuja,
Sanjay, P., and Sridharan, S., Performance
Evaluation of Hypervisors for Cloud Computing, International
Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC), Volume 2, Issue 3, November2012. http://www.igi-global.com/article/performance-evaluation-hypervisors-cloud-computing/72326
- Ahuja, Sanjay, P., and Rolli,
A., Exploring the Convergence of
- Ahuja, Sanjay, P., and Mani, S., Availability of Services in
the Era of Cloud Computing, Journal of Network
and Communication Technologies (NCT), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 97-102, June 2012.http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/nct/article/view/14392
- Ahuja, Sanjay, P., and Mani, S., The State of HPC in the Cloud,
http://www.cisjournal.org/journalofcomputing/archive/vol3no2/vol3no2_20.pdf
- Ahuja,
Sanjay, P. and Rolli, A., Survey
of the State-of-the-Art in Cloud Computing, International Journal of
Cloud Computing and Applications, Volume 1, Issue 4, pp. 34-43,
October 2011.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/survey-state-art-cloud-computing/60407
Ongoing Research Projects
· Performance Evaluation of Hypervisors (completed Spring 2012)
· High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud (completed Fall 2012)
· Empirical Evaluation of Public Cloud Computing Infrastructures
· Open Source Private Cloud Computing Architectures
· Mobile Cloud Computing
· Cloudlets Computing
· Big Data Computing in the Cloud
Faculty
· Dr. Sanjay P. Ahuja
· Dr. Roger Eggen
· Dr. Behrooz Seyed-Abbassi
New Graduate Course Developed
· New Graduate Course: Cloud Computing, offered for the first time in Spring 2013 by Dr. Ahuja
Graduate Student Theses in
Progress
· Kerwin Roslie
· Jesus Zambrano
· Bhagavathi Kaza
· Thinh Le
· Inan Kaddour
· Thomas Furman
· Michael Barksdale
Graduate Student Theses
Completed
· Suganya Sridharan (Spring 2012)
· Sindhu Mani (Fall 2012)
Grants
· Ahuja, Sanjay, P. Awarded a grant by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care (Vistakon) Corporation, Benchmarking and Performance Analysis of VMWare ESXi Based Private Cloud. 2013-2014.
· Ahuja, Sanjay, P. UNF Summer Teaching Grant to Dr. Ahuja for Summer 2012 for developing a new graduate course in Cloud Computing.
· Ahuja, Sanjay, P., Eggen, Roger, Seyed-Abbassi, Behrooz, UNF Foundation Grant for research in Mobile Cloud Computing. Applied Spring 2013.
Research Assistants
· Thomas Furman. Spring 2013 – Summer 2013.
· Bryan Moore. Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
· Sindhu Mani. Fall 2011 – Spring 2012.
· Alan Rolli. Fall 2010 – Spring 2011.
Directed Independent Studies
· Sindhu Mani, High Performance Computation in the Cloud, Summer 2011.
· Deepa Komathukattil, A Survey of the State of Cloud Security, Spring 2012.
Presentations
· Ahuja, Sanjay, P., Let’s Head for the Clouds: A View of Cloud Computing, College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction (CCEC) Colloquium at the University of North Florida, February 2013.
Contact Information
Dr. Sanjay P. Ahuja, Ph.D
Full Professor
Fidelity National Financial Distinguished
Professor in CIS
Senior Member, IEEE
School of Computing
College of Computing, Engineering, and
Construction
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL 32224.
Direct phone line: (904) 620-1317
Phone: (904) 620-2985
Fax: (904) 620-2988
Email: sahuja@unf.edu
