Cloud computing has become a buzz word over the last decade. It has continued to attract
businesses due to its on-demand service, applications and cost-effectiveness. There exist …

Information and communication technologies (IT) and IT-based instrumentation and control
(I&C) systems, hardware and software components are analyzed in context of “green” …

The paper discusses our practical experience and theoretical results of investigating the
impact of consistency on latency in distributed fault tolerant systems built over the Internet …

This experience report analyses performance of the Cassandra NoSQL database and
studies the fundamental trade-off between data consistency and delays in distributed data …

Amazon's recent service disruption and investigations into the underlying causes of similar
major outages indicate that cloud outages in future cannot be ruled out with certainty. This …

This paper examines fundamental trade-offs in fault-tolerant distributed systems and
replicated databases built over the Internet. We discuss interplays between consistency …

Uncertainty and response time instability can affect invoked Web services' usability,
performance, trustworthiness, and dependability. To resolve uncertainty, researchers have …

Resilience is the ability of a system to return to its normal operation state after a change or
disturbance. Frequently, resilience of a system can be only empirically estimated due to the …

Cloud computing has become the fundamental platform for service offerings. Such services
frequently face peaks in their variable workload. Thus, the cloudification of critical …

CONTENTS 15.1 Introduction 396 15.2 CPS and Cloud Computing Fault Tolerance
39915.2. 1 Physical Cloud Layout 400 15.2. 2 Software-Dened Network 401 15.2. 3 Critical …