As cloud computing is becoming growingly popular, consumers' tasks around the world
arrive in cloud data centers. A private cloud provider aims to achieve profit maximization by …

The pricing mechanism of cloud-computing resources is an essential issue for both cloud
customers and service providers, especially from the point of multi-provider competition …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology, which enables service
agility, flexibility and cost reduction by replacing traditional hardware middleboxes with …

Many current video surveillance cloud platforms are built based on Virtual Machine (VM)
technology that usually induces the loss of service performance and brings some challenges …

Edge computing (EC) platforms, which enable Application Service Providers (ASPs) to
deploy applications in close proximity to users, are providing ultra-low latency and location …

Faced with the cost of local management of IT infrastructure, many transportation operators
have decided to use Cloud Computing services via its providers. The latter make resources …

The spot market is one of the most common cloud markets where cloud providers, such as
Amazon EC2, rent their surplus computing resources at lower prices in the form of spot …

Abstract In the Internet of Things (IoT) scenario, the hardware resources in the edge
computing paradigm are limited, so the applications in the cloud computing paradigm are …

With the advances in the IoT era, the number of wireless sensor devices has been growing
rapidly. This increasing number gives rise to more complex networks where more complex …

The use of state-of-the-art real-time techniques in industry remains infrequent. The reason
for this, we believe, is three-fold:(1) the lack of commercially available tools,(2) the lack of …