Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that provides computing, communication and
storage resources as a service over a network. Communication resources often become a …

Network virtualization is an inherent component of future internet architectures. Network
resources are virtualized from the underlying substrate and elastically provisioned and …

With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, many notable quality of service (QoS)-
aware service composition approaches have been incorporated in service-oriented cloud …

There is a quite intensive research for Cloud simulators in the recent years, mainly due to
the fact that the need for powerful computational resources has led organizations to use …

We are living in the era of" Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with" Big
Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key …

Cloud infrastructures are designed to simultaneously service many, diverse applications that
consist of collections of Virtual Machines (VMs). The placement policy used to map …

Cloud computing is a computing model where users access ICT services and resources
without regard to where the services are hosted. Communication resources often become a …

To increase the energy efficiency of Ethernet networks, in 2010, the IEEE published the IEEE
802.3 az amendment, known as Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE). The amendment introduces …

Abstract The Climate Group notes that energy consumption by ICT activities represented 2%
of global human activity in 2009 (Smart, 2012)[1]. ICT is therefore a sector contributing both …

With the recent significant growth of virtualization and cloud services, the data center
network (DCN) as the underlying infrastructure is more important. The increasing and …