Data centers are growing exponentially (in number and size) to accommodate the escalating
user and application demands. Likewise, the concerns about the environmental impacts …

Cloud Computing Datacenters host millions of virtual machines (VMs) on real world
scenarios. In this context, Virtual Machine Placement (VMP) is one of the most challenging …

The problem of Virtual Machine (VM) placement in a compute cloud infrastructure is well-
studied in the literature. However, the majority of the existing works ignore the dynamic …

Abstract Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) systems offer on demand virtual infrastructures so
reliably and flexibly that users expect a high service level. Therefore, even with regards to …

Energy consumption has become a critical issue for data centers due to energy-associated
costs and environmental effects. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm based on Ant …

Cloud service providers are constantly looking for ways to increase revenue and reduce
costs either by reducing capacity requirements or by supporting more users without adding …

In cloud data centers, an appropriate Virtual Machine (VM) placement has become an
effective method to improve the resource utilization and reduce the energy consumption …

Mobile-Edge Computing (MEC) is about offering application developers and service
providers cloud-computing capabilities and an IT service environment at the edge of the …

Virtualization technology is widely used in clusters, data centers and cloud computing
environments and enables easy resource allocation to realize the server load balance and …

With the rapid development of virtualization techniques, cloud data centers allow for cost-
effective, flexible, and customizable deployments of applications on virtualized infrastructure …