The diversity of Cloud computing services is challenging the application developers as
various and non-standard interfaces are provided for these services. Few middleware …

Cloud computing is currently classified by the generally accepted terms IaaS, PaaS and
SaaS. These are not precise enough to give users and providers a common terminology to …

Cloud computing enables access to an almost unlimited amount of resources combined with
usage-based accounting. However, due to their design a lot of applications are not able to …

In this paper we do a case study of the state of the art of push messaging for Android. We
examine a technology called C2DM (Cloud to Device Messaging) and how well it integrates …

Elasticity is a key feature of current cloud computing platforms. Dependent on their demand
tenants can dynamically scale up and down their applications. To increase their revenue …

Traditional cloud computing providers enable developers to program and deploy
applications in the cloud by using platform as a service (PaaS) providers. Despite the …

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) can preserve the availability and integrity of IoT systems
where single components may suffer from random data corruption or attacks that can expose …

Component-based architectures are natural for Cloud computing. However, few current
software development frameworks are exploiting this fact. A proof-of-the-concept …

The demand for ubiquitous mobile application on cloud computing platform is increasing
due to the rapid advancement of cloud technology. In this paper, we shall present a new …

In many scientific and engineering areas there are emerging software services available
over the Web. The reason for deploying such services in the Cloud is either to reduce the …