Web application providers have been migrating their applications to cloud data centers,
attracted by the emerging cloud computing paradigm. One of the appealing features of the …

Web applications are mostly designed with multiple tiers for flexibility and software
reusability. It is difficult to model the behavior of multi-tier Web applications due to the fact …

Cloud computing emerging environment attracts many applications providers to deploy web
applications on cloud data centers. The primary area of attraction is elasticity, which allows …

Recently, the microservice becomes a popular architecture to construct cloud native systems
due to its agility. In cloud native systems, autoscaling is a key enabling technique to adapt to …

The lucrative features of cloud computing such as pay-as-you-go pricing model and dynamic
resource provisioning (elasticity) attract clients to host their applications over the cloud to …

Autonomic server provisioning for performance assurance is a critical issue in data centers.
It is important but challenging to guarantee an important performance metric, percentile …

Cloud data centers are widely employed to offer reliable cloud services. However, low
resource utilization and high power consumption have been great challenges for cloud …

Autonomic server provisioning for performance assurance is a critical issue in Internet
services. It is challenging to guarantee that requests flowing through a multi-tier system will …

Dynamic virtual server provisioning is critical to quality-of-service assurance for multitier
Internet applications. In this paper, we address three important challenging problems. First …

The next generation of mobile networks, namely 5G, together with the Internet of Things (IoT)
come with a large number of delay sensitive services. To meet their requirements, cloud …