Survey Paper

 Read at least five recent papers/articles on cloud computing related topics, and at most one to be
review/survey paper/article.
 Write a 10-page (double spaced) review paper integrating and expanding the selected research paper
subjects with the course topics.
 This will not be a paper report (to review the references), rather a thoughtful discussion of the research
papers content pertaining to the material we have covered in the course.
 Papers and articles from IEEE Transactions on Computers, and the Communications of the ACM; or
other journals or proceedings approved by the instructor.
One example of reference paper/article,
1. D. Gonzales, J. M. Kaplan, E. Saltzman, Z. Winkelman and D. Woods, "Cloud-Trust—a Security
Assessment Model for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds," in IEEE Transactions on Cloud
Computing, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 523-536, 1 July-Sept. 2017.
This article covers many subjects and expands more. Some parts, like Mathematic
model in Section 6, can be skipped.