Enhancing the efficiency and the reliability of the data center are the technical challenges for
maintaining the quality of services for the end-users in the data center operation. The energy …

The energy consumption by data centers is expanding in tandem with the rapid rise of the
digital economy. Data centers, as high-energy-consumption organizations, have garnered …

In recent years, the rise of e-commerce has prompted the emergence of electronic
marketplaces, or e-marketplaces, which act as intermediaries in the buying and selling …

A cloud data center is a critical infrastructure whose service reliability is relevant for service
delivery. Constituting the carrier of service for cloud computing, the IT architecture of a cloud …

The evaluation of dependability or performance of general systems is not a trivial task.
Therefore, the assistance of software tools to obtain the wanted metrics is of utmost …

Modeling a cloud computing center is crucial to evaluate and predict its inner connectivity
reliability and availability. Many previous studies on system availability/reliability …

The evaluation of dependability or performance of general systems usually relies on the
assistance of stochastic modeling and simulation tools. Those software packages enables …

Dynamic fault tree (DFT) is designed to conduct risk assessment studies of complex
systems. With the development of intelligent and network technology, risk assessment …

In recent years, data centers (DCs) have evolved a lot, and this change is related to the
advent of cloud computing, e-commerce, services aimed at social networks, and big data …

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) helps increasing performance of intensive mobile
applications by offloading heavy tasks to cloud computing infrastructures. The first step in …