Cloud Computing services can be accessed anytime, anywhere via the Internet. The
overwhelming growth of cloud data centers over the past decade has increased their costs …

Big data applications have become increasingly popular with the appearance of cloud
computing and green computing. Therefore, internet service providers (ISPs) need to build …

Cloud research to date has lacked data on the characteristics of the production virtual
machine (VM) workloads of large cloud providers. A thorough understanding of these …

Cloud data centers provide services for an increasing number of applications. The virtual
machines (VMs) that perform the corresponding application tasks need to be allocated to …

The rapid growth in demand for computational power driven by modern service applications
combined with the shift to the Cloud computing model have led to the establishment of large …

Cloud computing offers utility-oriented IT services to users worldwide. Based on a pay-as-
you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific, and …

Virtual machine placement is a process of mapping virtual machines to physical machines.
The optimal placement is important for improving power efficiency and resource utilization in …

Abstract Modern Cloud Data Centers exploit virtualization for efficient resource management
to reduce cloud computational cost and energy budget. Virtualization empowered by virtual …

Cloud computing has rapidly emerged as a model for delivering Internet-based utility
computing services. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is one of the most important and …

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 …