With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, the cloud model is unable to offer
satisfactory services for latency‐sensitive and real‐time applications due to high latency and …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that connects various physical
sensor devices spread across different locations. IoT-enabled supply chain provides a …

Service Level Agreements are employed to set availability commitments in cloud services.
When a violation occurs as in an outage, cloud providers may be called to compensate …

In a dynamic environment such as the cloud-of-things, one of the most critical factors for
successful service delivery is the QoS under defined constraints. Even though guarantees in …

The use of the cloud to store personal/company data and to run programs is gaining wide
acceptance as it is more efficient and cost-effective. However, cloud services may not always …

Research on ICT projects continues to report very high cost and schedule overruns, as well
as many high-profile ICT projects experiencing high incidences of unexpected cyber …

The number of cloud services has dramatically increased over the past few years.
Consequently, finding a service with the most suitable quality of service (QoS) criteria …

Cloud availability is a major performance parameter in cloud Service Level Agreements
(SLA). Its correct evaluation is essential to SLA enforcement and possible litigation issues …

The use of the cloud, and in particular cloud services for storing personal or business data
and for running programmes, is becoming increasingly popular, as it is an efficient and cost …

The acceleration towards the fifth generation (5G) and beyond will see the internet of things
(IoT) being the primary strategy of deployment, and wireless networks will become more …