Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

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 …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) pushes computing functionalities away from the centralized
cloud to the network edge, thereby meeting the latency requirements of many emerging …

The (ultra-) dense deployment of small-cell base stations (SBSs) endowed with cloud-like
computing functionalities paves the way for pervasive mobile edge computing, enabling …

The explosive growth of mobile devices promotes the prosperity of novel mobile
applications, which can be realized by service offloading with the assistance of edge …

Mobile edge computing is beneficial for reducing service response time and core network
traffic by pushing cloud functionalities to network edge. Equipped with storage and …

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 …

Recent advances in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and machine learning
have contributed to the rise of a growing number of complex applications. These …

This paper presents a comprehensive literature review on applications of economic and
pricing models for resource management in cloud networking. To achieve sustainable profit …

Recent years have seen the massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud. One
of the challenges posed by cloud applications is Quality-of-Service (QoS) management …