An insight into cloud-enabled Complex Industrial Applications

The cloud-based systems can provide massive storage resources and low-cost computing as well as the flexibility of customizing the operating environment to Complex Industrial Applications (CIA). Also the Cloud-integrated CPS (CCPS) will bring hope to allow previously unachievable application scenarios to be built, deployed, managed and controlled effectively. In this paper, we propose a cloud-integrated CPS architecture and outline the enabling technologies for CIA. Then, we dissect three potential challenges and solutions from the perspective of CIA, including the virtualized resource management techniques, the scheduling of cloud resources, and life cycle management. We hope this paper can provide the insight and the roadmap for future research efforts in the emerging field of CCPS.