Cloud Computing is one of the most intensively developed solutions for large-scale
distributed processing. Effective use of such environments, management of their high …

Context Modern software systems employ large IT infrastructures hosted in on-premise
clouds or using “rented” cloud resources from specific vendors. The unifying force across …

An efficient and scalable monitoring system is a critical component for any network to
monitor and validate the functioning of the running services and the underlying …

Failure is inevitable in cloud environments. Finding the root cause of a failure can be very
complex or at times nearly impossible. Different cloud customers have varying availability …

Abstract Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds are becoming a customary way to deploy
modern Internet applications. Many cloud management platforms are available for one who …

A key feature of the cloud network slicing concept is the dynamic (de) provision of end-to-
end infrastructures composed by computing, network, and storage resources, in order to …

In this work we describe FT-Aurora, a highly available IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
cloud manager that allows cloud resources to be accessed even if the manager itself …

Nova, the compute component of open source cloud platform OpenStack, is responsible for
provisioning and management of virtual machines. For the provision of services, compute …

As the Internet continues to grow; it becomes more and more obvious that the
communication network and its nodes play an increasingly important role. The traditional …

Monitoring is an important issue in cloud environments because it assures that acquired
cloud slices attend the user's expectations. However, these environments are multitenant …