Sima Bagheri

(M.Sc.)

Firewall: Scaling up and down in cloud

Firewalls have been widely deployed for securing networks and are the first line for defending against malicious traffic. A firewall checks each incoming or outgoing packet to decide whether to accept or reject the packet based on its policy. Setting up a centralized firewall for a whole cloud data center is infeasible. In this project, we aim at addressing most of the actual challenges in the centralized firewall by outsourcing some parts of the main firewall as several small firewalls.

Niloofar Moradi

(M.Sc.)

Incremental NVF Optimal Placement

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a paradigm to facilitate dynamic provisioning of network services through virtualization technologies. The optimal placement of virtual network functions is known to be an NP-hard problem. Our placement objectives consist of three goals: 1) minimizing end-to-end delay for each flow, 2) maximizing the network resource utilization, 3) minimizing network function installation costs.

Ehsan Khodayarseresht

(M.Sc.)

Reducing Energy and Carbon Cost of Multiple Cloud Providers Using Cloud Federation and Solar Energy Prediction

Nowadays, the highest amount of money paid by cloud providers is about energy and carbon cost. On the other hand, according to Gartner, the ICT industry is responsible for 2% of global carbon emissions. In this case, the computation of energy and carbon cost plays a crucial role in data centers' operational costs and also could help to reduce their carbon footprint rate. In this research, generally, we aim to reduce the overall energy and carbon cost of multiple cloud providers with the use of cloud federation, renewable energy and other effective issues such as idle host awareness, solar energy prediction and dynamic PUE.

Sina Tamjidy

(M.Sc.)

Intelligent countermeasure selection for Information security risk assessment

These days, the risk assessment of an organization's assets is a challenging task. If organizations did not pay significant attention to the security of their data and an attack happens against them, they will face too many problems like reputation loss or legal problems. One of the best ways to improve the process of risk assessment is by using our knowledge about data extracted from the business processes. With this kind of framework, we can make an accurate risk assessment model. What is left to do is using the logs of this system to selecting the mitigations based on the previous system's state in an intelligent way, which is the subject of this research.

Sara Azizi

(M.Sc.)

Improving cvss vulnerability scoring

CVSS is one of the most popular methods for calculating vulnerability severity. One of the disadvantages of the CVSS method is the failure to use the vulnerability history, which is addressed in this research. In the history of vulnerability, a variety of metrics can be considered, for example, when the vulnerability is fixed, the number of attacks between detection and fixing. The purpose of this research is to focus on these metrics.

Pouya Packshad

(M.Sc.)

A security test oracle based on security features extracted from source-code

The importance of software application's security has increased rapidly over the recent years. Software security testing helps us to check the security behavior of a program. To determine whether the program behaves securely, we need an oracle who detects the correct program's behavior from security concept. There are various approaches to construct security test oracles. In this research, we will present a security test oracle based on security features which are extracted from source code of program to identify vulnerable codes and their types.

Mohammad Osmanpoor

(M.Sc.)

Energy efficient workflow scheduling in cloud computing environment

The growth of energy consumption has been explosive in current data centers, super computers, and public cloud systems. This explosion has led to greater advocacy of green computing, and many efforts and works focus on the task scheduling in order to reduce energy dissipation. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a commonly-used power-management technique where the clock frequency of a processor is decreased to allow a corresponding reduction in the supply voltage. In order to obtain more energy reduction as well as maintain the quality of service, this research proposes a DVFS-enabled Energy-efficient Workflow Scheduling algorithm.

Alireza Khajouei

(M.Sc.)

Incremental VM placement

Over the last few years, virtual machine placement has become a chief operation in cloud computing. Researchers confront a lot of challenges according to different aspects such as computational complexity, end-to-end delay and etc.. in our placement, we want to model the optimal solution by integer linear programming and represent a greedy algorithm to make an incremental placement independent of the cost function.

Arash Hadadi

(M.Sc.)

Virtual machine placement in the cloud environment according to maintaining the quality of service

Virtual machine placement in the cloud environment can be done with different approaches. In this research, the maintenance of service quality for a distributed application in the cloud environment is considered.

Nima Ghasri

(Ph.D.)

Cloud Computing.

Soheil Ziaei

(Ph.D.)

Cloud Computing.

Mohammad Khanahmadi

(M.Sc.)

Performance Analysis in Microservice Architecture using OpenTracing

A microservice based cloud program consists of several services, each developed separately. OpenTracing is a new standard for controlling and viewing in-app events at different levels in the cloud. In this research, we intend to use OpenTracing by calculating multi metrics such as throughput, response time, request ratio of success and error to analyze the performance of software implemented on a cloud scale and will use the results obtained to identify system bottlenecks and monitor the system trends closely.

Ehsan Rasoulpour

(M.Sc.)

An intelligent VM placement method for minimizing energy cost and carbon emission in distributed cloud data centers

Cloud Computing provides an unlimited amount of IT resources to cloud users on pay-as-you-go fundament. The vast amount of energy consumption and carbon footprint by the cloud data centers is of one of the devastating problems of the world today, which can cause both environmental disasters and exacerbating cloud providers' total expenses. In this way, by considering energy and carbon efficient virtual machine (VM) placement approaches, not only would the total power usage and carbon emission be reduced, but the excessive amounts of data centers' expenses including energy cost and carbon tax would also be significantly declined. In this research, for overcoming this compelling issue, we introduce a novel, intelligent VM placement approach for reducing energy consumption, carbon emission, and their related costs.

Parisa Kalaki

(M.Sc.)

Anomaly Detection on OpenStack Log Analysis

OpenStack is a free open-source cloud computing platform that includes common services such as computing, image, network, and storage services. OpenStack Log Analysis is a significant part of detecting anomaly behavior. In this research, we analyze OpenStack log and divide it into two sections, log parsing and log mining. Furthermore, different datamining algorithms are used to find any unusual patterns that cause faults.