Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

While cloud computing has brought paradigm shifts to computing services, researchers and
developers have also found some problems inherent to its nature such as bandwidth …

Centralized cloud infrastructures have become the de-facto platform for data-intensive
computing today. However, they suffer from inefficient data mobility due to the centralization …

Centralized cloud infrastructures have become the popular platforms for data-intensive
computing today. However, they suffer from inefficient data mobility due to the centralization …

Powered by cloud computing, Dropbox not only provides reliable file storage but also
enables effective file synchronization and user collaboration. This new generation of service …

In personal computing devices that rely on a cloud storage environment for data backup, an
imminent challenge facing source deduplication for cloud backup services is the low …

Application workloads are used for system analysis, design, optimization, and evaluation. As
systems and their applications evolve, new workloads are required to reflect their …

Traditional smart city resources management rely on cloud based solutions to provide a
centralized and rich set of open data. The advantages of cloud based frameworks are their …

End user experiences on mobile devices with their rich sets of sensors are constrained by
limited device battery lives and restricted form factors, as well as by thescope'of the data …

The past few years have seen a growing number of mobile and sensor applications that rely
on Cloud support. The role of the Cloud is to allow these resource-limited devices to offload …