Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

A novel paradigm that changes the scene for the modern communication and computation
systems is the Edge Computing. It is not a coincidence that terms like Mobile Cloud …

Diverse proprietary network appliances increase both the capital and operational expense
of service providers, meanwhile causing problems of network ossification. Network function …

When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Cloud service providers offer virtual machines (VMs) as services to users over Internet. As
VMs are running on physical machines (PMs), PM power consumption needs to be …

The Internet of things (IoT) extends the Internet space by allowing smart things to sense
and/or interact with the physical environment and communicate with other physical objects …

High cost of data centers' energy consumption and its environmental effects such as CO 2
emissions have inspired numerous researches to provide more efficient VM management …

The number of cloud users and their respective workload increases everyday with the
inherent benefits of cloud computing. On the other hand, it becomes critical for service …

Abstract In Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-enabled cloud data centers, live migration is
a key approach used for the reallocation of Virtual Machines (VMs) and Virtual Network …

Many virtual machine (VM) allocation methods have been proposed to reduce the number of
physical machines (PMs), improve resource utilization for cloud service providers. If VMs are …