Network clouds are typically private clouds owned by the network provider, consisting of a
large number of geo-distributed sites with heterogeneous capabilities and small capacities …

It is well known, that different types of physical (PMs) and virtual (VMs) machines failures
and as well deliberate malicious impacts on information resources of cloud infrastructure are …

Distribution of video content over the Internet has drastically transformed the consumption of
media. Content providers, naturally, would like to ensure that their videos play on users' …

Reliability analysis of cloud is not a trivial task due to the complexity and scalability of cloud-
based systems. This paper proposes a novel model for evaluating cloud reliability in an …

Modeling of service availability Page 1 Modeling of Service Availability Bartholomäus Kellerer
Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH Development Otto Hahn Ring 6 81037 Munich …

Service function chains aim to replace proprietary and expensive appliances by similar ones
provided through virtual services running over some virtualization technique. Such a …

A plethora of works has been published over the past decade, contributing in invaluable
ways to the area of cloud performance and dependability modeling. As Cloud Computing …

Use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in conjunction with mobile devices is growing on a
daily basis. Mobile phones are not only personal devices that provide communication …

Cloud computing environments have recently emerged as a new computing paradigm for
organizing a shared pool of servers in data centres into a cloud infrastructure that can …

Deploying critical applications in the cloud introduces uncertainties for availability that have
traditionally been under the direct control of the application owner. The cloud infrastructure …