“…Most of the proposed replication strategies in the literature focus on ensuring a specific tenant objective, e.g., availability (Wei et al, 2010), reliability (Li et al, 2017), low latency (Ma and Yang, 2017), data durability (Liu et al, 2018), security (Ali et al, 2018) and energy efficiency (Boru et al, 2015) when other strategies balance among different objectives, e.g., availability and load balancing (Long et al, 2014). On the other hand, there are a number of strategies (Liu et al, 2018;Bonvin et al, 2011;Xiong et al, 2011;Mansouri et al, 2017;Edwin et al, 2017;Mansouri and Javidi, 2018) and replication frameworks (Pu et al, 2015) that aim to satisfy the tenant's objectives while reducing the cost of replication, e. g., data storage and/or data transfer costs, between Data Centers (DCs).…”