Network functions virtualization (NFV) enables agile deployment of network services on top
of clouds. However, as NFV involves multiple levels of abstraction representing the same …

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, smart home systems are
getting more and more popular in our daily life. Besides providing convenient functionality …

Cloud is getting ubiquitous and scales up rapidly. It is critical to effectively detect and
efficiently repair system anomalies for a robust cloud. Many efforts have been made to …

By providing lightweight and portable support for cloud native applications, container
environments have gained significant momentum lately. A container orchestrator such as …

Containerization has gained significant popularity in cloud-native applications, offering
lightweight and portable capabilities, with container orchestration platforms such as …

Vendors who wish to provide software or services to large corporations and governments
must often obtain numerous certificates of compliance. Each certificate asserts that the …

The multi-tenancy in a cloud along with its dynamic and self-service nature could cause
severe security concerns, such as isolation breaches among cloud tenants. To mitigate such …

To ensure the accountability of a cloud environment, security policies may be provided as a
set of properties to be enforced by cloud providers. However, due to the sheer size of clouds …

Security compliance auditing is a viable solution to ensure the accountability and
transparency of a cloud provider to its tenants. However, the sheer size of a cloud, coupled …

It is critical for a reliable cloud to effectively find out root causes of the cloud service
anomalies for efficacious treatment. System logs are widely used for anomaly detection and …