Thisbook constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International GI ITG Conference onMeasurement
Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems and Dependabilityand Fault Tolerance MMB & DFT
2016 held in Münster Germany in April2016. The 12 full papers and 3 short papers included in
this volume werecarefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers deal with
thefields of performance evaluation dependability and fault-tolerance ofcomputer and
communication systems. A relatively new topic of smart grids isalso covered.