Cloud computing has various challenges, one of them is using copied data. Data replication
is an important technique for distributed mass data management. The aim of the general …

Nowadays, in various scientific domains, large data sets are becoming an important part of
shared resources. Such huge mass of data is usually stored in cloud data centers …

In recent years, cloud storage systems have emerged as a promising technology for storing
data blocks on various cloud servers. One of the main mechanisms in cloud storage systems …

Heterogeneous distributed computing environments are emerging for developing data-
intensive (big data) applications that require to access huge data files. Therefore, effective …

Failures are normal rather than exceptional in the cloud computing environments. To
improve system availability, replicating the popular data to multiple suitable locations is an …

Recently the number of cloud storage users has increased abundantly. The reason is that
the Cloud Storage system reduces the burden of maintenance and it has less storage cost …

Cloud computing environment is getting more interesting as a new trend of data
management. Data replication has been widely applied to improve data access in …

Cloud computing is becoming a very popular word in industry and is receiving a large
amount of attention from the research community. Replica management is one of the most …

Unlike traditional high performance computing environment, such as cluster and
supercomputers, the cloud computing is a collection of interconnected and virtualized …

Cloud computing provides on demand services to cloud users, and one among them is
storage. Currently, large amount of data gets generated and demand an enormous storage …