Network virtualization is recognized as an enabling technology for the future Internet. It aims
to overcome the resistance of the current Internet to architectural change. Application of this …

Today's businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing, which brings both great
opportunities and challenges. One of the critical challenges is resiliency: disruptions due to …

Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals
with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network …

The increasing popularity of Cloud computing as an attractive alternative to classic
information processing systems has increased the importance of its correct and continuous …

In a virtualized infrastructure where physical resources are shared, a single physical server
failure will terminate several virtual servers and crippling the virtual infrastructures which …

The increasing demand for flexibility and scalability in dynamically obtaining and releasing
computing resources in a cost-effective and device-independent manner, and ease in …

BACKGROUND Cloud computing provides away of delivering services and resources to a
customer over the Internet using rapid, self service provisioning, while insulating the …

Fault tolerance, reliability and availability in Cloud computing are critical to ensure correct
and continuous system operation also in the presence of failures. In this paper, we present …

Reliability requirement is one of the most important quality of services (QoS) and should be
satisfied for a reliable workflow in cloud computing. Primary-backup replication is an …

Energy consumption and cost are the important factors in executing applications in grid or
cloud computing systems, because they directly affect resource consumption and economic …