Cloud computing and network slicing are essential concepts of forthcoming 5G mobile
systems. Network slices are essentially chunks of virtual computing and connectivity …

Data centers in public, private, and hybrid cloud settings make it possible to provision virtual
machines (VMs) with unprecedented flexibility. However, purchasing, operating, and …

The objective of cloud computing is to provide seamless services using virtualization
technology over the Internet to serve the Quality of Service (QoS)-driven end users …

Cloud Computing Datacenters host millions of virtual machines (VMs) on real world
scenarios. In this context, Virtual Machine Placement (VMP) is one of the most challenging …

The energy efficiency of cloud computing has recently attracted a great deal of attention. As
a result of raised expectations, cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft have started …

Finding the best way to map virtual machines (VMs) to physical machines (PMs) in a cloud
data center is an important optimization problem, with significant impact on costs …

Previous work on optimizing resource provisioning in virtualized environments focused
either on mapping virtual machines (VMs) to physical machines (PMs) or mapping …

One of the key problems for Infrastructure‐as‐a‐Service providers is finding the optimal
allocation of virtual machines on the physical machines available in the provider's data …

Pseudo-Boolean constraints, also known as 0-1 Integer Linear Constraints, are used to
model many real-world problems. A common approach to solve these constraints is to …

This survey is an up-to-date account of the research on the performance–energy trade-off in
virtualized environments, specifically in virtual machine consolidation. The factors that …