A Performance Approach: SCADA System Implementation within Cloud Computing Environment

The distributed control systems (ICSs) implementation within cloud computing environment is a new approach, in information technology arena. Few researches have been taken placed, to deploy the SCADA system within cloud computing environment but failed to provides security during communication. SCADA systems as part of "Distributed control systems (ICS)", implementations within real sectors (real automation sectors) are cost effective, while deploying in cloud computing environment, the cost has significantly minimized. Mean that cloud computing platform is best approach for SCADA system, in terms of performance and cost. The current research paper reviews, the SCADA and cloud computing architectures and deployed the entire SCADA system within cloud computing environment, and measured the performance results during packets (bytes) transmission. In first phase, packets (bytes) have been transmitted with different date rates and CPU and memory consumption are measured with the baud rate as 9600. In second phase, abnormal traffic has been generated within cloud environment (SCADA within cloud environment) and the packets (within abnormal communication) have been captured using Snort tool (Wireshark with Pcap tool is also used for analysis and packet capturing).