Management and Security for Grid, Cloud and Cognitive Networks

This paper present a number of research initiatives related to innovative and cut-edge technologies for Cloud Computing. These are chiefly in the fields of (i) environment security, (ii) quality assurance, (iii) service composition, and (iv) system management. We present technologies for intrusion detection; a SLA perspective in security management; customer security concerns; a Cloud-based solution for eHealth; experimental assessment of routing for grid and cloud; simulator improvements to validate the green cloud computing approach, and; a framework to radio layer operation in cognitive networks.