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 …

The cloud phenomenon is quickly becoming an important service in Internet computing.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing is one of the most significant and …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical things, objects, or devices, such as radio-
frequency identification tags, sensors, actuators, mobile phones, and laptops. The IoT …

Advanced manufacturing depends on the timely acquisition, distribution, and utilization of
information from machines and processes across spatial boundaries. These activities can …

In a cloud computing paradigm, energy efficient allocation of different virtualized ICT
resources (servers, storage disks, and networks, and the like) is a complex problem due to …

As computing infrastructure expands, resource management in a large, heterogeneous, and
distributed environment becomes a challenging task. In a cloud environment, with …

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 …

Efficient provisioning of resources is a challenging problem in cloud computing
environments due to its dynamic nature and the need for supporting heterogeneous …

A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the
consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do …

Distributed data processing framework MapReduce is increasingly deployed in Clouds to
leverage the pay-per-usage cloud computing model. Popular Hadoop MapReduce …