Acronyms

5G The Next (5th) Generation ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability ACL Access Control List AI Artificial Intelligence AIIOT Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things AKS Azure Kubernetes Service ALB Adaptive Load Balancing AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol ANSI American National Standards Institute API Application Programming Interface ARP Address Resolution Protocol ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency AS Autonomous System ATL Atlas Transformation Language AWS Amazon Web Services BGP Border Gateway Protocol BSM Business Service Management BSP Business Service Provider BSON Binary JSON CAA Cloud Application Architecture CAM Content Addressable Memory CAP Consistency, Availability, and Partition CapEx Capital Expenditure CC Cluster Controller CDP Continuous Data Protection CDS Content Delivery Servers CCE Cloud Computing Environment CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research CFI Control Flow Integrity CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing CIS Cloud Information Service CLC Cloud Controller CMR Customer Relationship Management CODINE Computing in Distributed Networked Environments COI Community of Interest CPA Cloud Platform Architecture CPU Central Processing Unit CSA Cloud Protection Alliance CSLB Central Scheduler Load Balancing CSP Cloud Service Provider DAM Database Activity Monitoring DaaS Database as a Service DBMS Database Management System DCE Data Center Efficiency DC Distributed Computing DDoS Distributed Denial of Service DoS Denial of Service DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DLP Data Loss Prevention DNS Domain Name Server DNSSEC Domain Name System Security Extensions DPM Distributed Power Management DRS Distributed Resource Scheduler DSM Distributed Shared Memory DVFS Dynamic Frequency Voltage Scaling ECMP Equal-Cost Multi-Path EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud ECN Explicit Congestion Notification EPPKS Efficient Privacy Preserving Keyword Search Scheme FAM File Activity Monitoring FGBI Fine-Grained Block Identification FCAPS Fault, Configuration, Account, Performance, Security FC Fiber Channel FC-SAN FC-Based Storage Area Networks GA Genetic Algorithm GAE Google App Engine GVMI Generic Virtual Machine Image GOC Green Open Cloud GPS Global Positioning System GPLv2 General Public License GUI Graphical User Interface HA Homomorphic Authenticator HDFS Hadoop Distributed File System HMAC Hash Message Authentication Code HIPS Host Intrusion Prevention System HME Hypervisor Monitoring Environment HPC Hardware Performance Computing HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol HVM Hardware-Assisted Virtual Machine IaaS Infrastructure as a Service IDC international Information Enterprise IDS Intrusion Detection System IDS/IPS Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System IMA Integrity Management Architecture IoT Internet of Things IP Internet Protocol IPsec IP-Level Security IPS Intrusion Prevention System IRM In-Lined Reference Monitors ISA Instruction Set Architecture IT Information Technology I/O Input/Output JSON JavaScript Object Notation KVM Kernel-Based Virtual Machine KBA Knowledge-Based Answers/Questions LAN Local Area Network LGPL Lesser General Public License LLFC Link Layer Flow Control LLM Lightweight Live Migration LVM Logical Volume Manager LVMM Live Virtual Machine Migration MaaS Model as a Service MAC Media Access Control MCC Mobile Cloud Computing MFA Multi-Factor Authentication MiTM Man-in-the-Middle Attack MP Microprocessor MPI Message Passing Interface MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching MSN Mobile Social Networking MVCC Multi-Version Concurrency Control NAS Network-Attached Storage NAC Network Access Control NC Node Controller NFS Network File Server NSF National Science Foundation NSFC National Natural Science Foundation of China NIPS Network Intrusion Prevention System NIC Network Interface Controller NoSQL Not-only-SQL NOW Networks of Workstations NICs Network Interface Cards NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council OCR Optical Character Recognition OLTP Online Transaction Processing ONF Open Networking Foundation OS Operating System OSG Object Storage Gateway OSP Object Storage Provider OVS Open...