The computing demand for massive applications has led to the ubiquitous deployment of
computing power. This trend results in the urgent need for higher-level computing resource …

The ongoing roll-out of cloud–edge computing and Internet of Things (IoT) has been
simulating the boom of new advance reservation (AR) services, such as bulk-data migration …

Data centers have undergone significant expansions in recent years, as cloud service
providers seek to improve the quality of service and reduce operational costs. Cloud …

In today's data center networks (DCN), cloud applications commonly disseminate files from a
single source to a group of receivers for service deployment, data replication, software …

The increasing amount of data replication across datacenters introduces a need for efficient
bulk data transfer protocols which provide certain guarantees, most notably timely transfer …

The increasing amount of data replication across datacenters introduces a need for efficient
bulk data transfer protocols which meet QoS guarantees, notably timely completion. We …

Today, datacenter providers spend a lot of money on inter-datacenter WANs to transmit
traffic flows between geographically distributed datacenter sites. It is very important for …

An increasing number of cloud services are operated globally, where the service data are
frequently replicated across geographically distributed datacenters to improve service …

With the increasing demand of network services, many researches employ a Software
Defined Networking architecture to manage large-scale inter-datacenter networks. Some of …

Geographically distributed data centers have been de-ployed for different purposes, such as
minimizing the transmission and response time and the amount of data exchanges …