The development of industrialization and information communication technology (ICT) has deeply changed our way of life. In particular, with the emerging theory of ‘‘Industry 4.0”, the integration of cloud technologies and industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPS) becomes increasingly important, as this will greatly improve the manufacturing chain and business services. In this paper, we first de...

The application of high-bandwidth networks and cloud computing in manufacturing systems will be followed by mass data. Industrial data analysis plays important roles in condition monitoring, performance optimization, flexibility, and transparency of the manufacturing system. However, the currently existing architectures are mainly for offline data analysis, not suitable for real-time data proce...

Large number of clients like to store data onto public cloud server (PCS) due to increase in advancement in cloud computing. As a result the new security problems are in need to be solved to help large number of clients in processing their data on public cloud servers. When the clients are not allowed to access the public cloud servers, they will be forwarded to proxy servers to process their d...

Cost issue always is one of most important issue for enterprise in building their IT platform. With the advance of various cloud environments, enterprise’s IT executive may have different consideration in constructing their IT platform. For example, constructing an own cloud environment or renting a computing platform from cloud providers. This paper the authors, based on the Net Present Value ...

With dynamic trends and new developments in hardware and software, and the need to manage them efficiently, designing an Element Management System (EMS) for effective management of Network Element‟s (NE) is a challenging task. Small and medium businesses may not have the required skills or resources to manage their EMS. Large businesses may also want to use EMS services from skilled vendors. Wi...

Today’s manufacturing companies are undergoing a transformation towards increased digitalization, automation of manufacturing processes and as well new forms of manufacturing organization and business models. While large-size manufacturing companies are able to follow the pace of such technological developments, smallto mid-size manufacturing companies (SME) often experience substantial problem...

With the proliferation of hybrid clouds in both cost-saving and effectiveness, a growing number of users are building their own private cloud. However, private cloud can only provide limited resource, and always resorts to public cloud in order to meet elastic service requirements. Generally, public cloud is operated by commercial service providers (CSPs) who are not completely honest with user...

Security of data is one of the main concern in the implementation of cloud computing. This paper proposes a highly effective and efficient cloud security model. The proposed security model keeps the most critical data on the private cloud and the rest of it on the public cloud. It uses hash codes to check the integrity of the data at the public cloud. The proposed cloud security model provides ...

Cloud users today have little visibility into the performance characteristics, power consumption, and utilization of cloud resources; and the cloud has little visibility into user application performance requirements and critical metrics such as response time and throughput. This paper outlines new efforts to reduce the information gap between the cloud users and the cloud. We first present a s...