Industrial Automation and Control systems have matured into a stable infrastructure model
that has been kept fundamentally unchanged, using discrete embedded systems (such as …

Virtualization is gaining attraction in the industry as it promises a flexible way to integrate,
manage, and re-use heterogeneous software components with mixed-criticality levels, on a …

Robotic systems are typically subject to real-time constraints. Still, the ROS ecosystem-the
most popular repository of open-source robotics software-exhibits little evidence of the use …

Container-based virtualization has gained a significant importance in a deployment of
software applications in cloud-based environments. The technology fully relies on operating …

Communication networks are in constant evolution to adapt to the ever-changing demands
of modern services and applications. On the one hand, technologies within the framework of …

The world of connected devices has been attributed to applications that relied upon
multitude of devices to acquire and distribute data over extremely diverse networks. This …

Fog and edge computing offer the flexibility and decentralized architecture benefits of cloud
computing without suffering from the latency issues inherent in the cloud. This makes fog …

This paper presents RT-Kubernetes, a software architecture with the ability to deploy real-
time software components within containers in cloud infrastructures. The deployment of …

Today, Function-as-a-Service is the most promising concept of serverless cloud computing.
It makes possible for developers to focus on application development without any system …

Containerization and orchestration have become two key requirements in software
development best practices. Containerization allows for better resource utilization, platform …