Hossny, E., S. Khattab, F. Omara, and H. Hassan,
"A Case Study for Deploying Applications on Heterogeneous PaaS Platforms",
Cloud Computing and Big Data (CloudCom-Asia), 2013 International Conference on, pp. 246-253, Dec, 2013.
AbstractCloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model provides developers with the ability to deploy and manage their applications remotely through the cloud and pay only for actual usage hours. Currently, there is no standard API for PaaS management and deployment, each PaaS provider has its own specific APIs (e.g., Google AppEngine (GAE), OpenShift (OS), Cloud Foundry (CF), and Windows Azure). Therefore, deploying applications on heterogeneous PaaS platforms is considered one of the challenges that make some developers worry about using PaaS services. Such challenge can be solved by providing a standard or a generic API that overcomes PaaS API heterogeneity. The aim of this paper is to report on our effort to use and extend a generic API, namely the COAPS API, which supports deployment and management on Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. According to the work in this paper, an extension of the COAPS API is provided to include the deployment on Google AppEngine as a case study to demonstrate COAPS API generality.
Galal, A., and H. Hassan,
"Creating enhanced Wikileaks",
International Journal of Information and Network Security (IJINS), vol. 2, issue 3: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science, pp. 118-123, 2013.
AbstractIn this paper we discussed how to create an enhanced version of Wikileaks using the web services and SOA concepts. We showed why we believe that Wikileaks using its announced methods and features was not too hard to be prevented; moreover we believe it is doable to spread any document on the internet as if it were a Wikileaks document. We showed how it was technically possible for the governments to prevent it if they want to do so, how Wikileaks was supposed to be happen using web services and how it could optimally be if public UDDIs exist.The paper suggesting how to make wikileaks alike harder to be prevented and at the same time by showing its weak points and how to overcome those points it could be considered as a step forward to prevent future wikileaks.