Driven by the vision of cloud and edge computing as the 5th utility, a major challenge is the
efficient resource management and pricing taking into account incentives and preferences of …

With the rapid development of cloud computing the cloud market has become
heterogeneous. In order to avoid this problem becoming an obstacle for users to migrate to …

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has become a promising technique to accommodate
demands of resource-constrained mobile devices by offloading the task onto edge clouds …

Network and cloud service providers are facing an unprecedented challenge to meet the
demand of end-users during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, billions of people around …

Cloud computing providers provision their resources into different types of virtual machine
(VM) instances that are then allocated to the users for specific periods of time. The allocation …

The evolving mobile cloud computing (MCC) paradigm enables mobile users to offload their
computing tasks to cloud servers. In this paper, we study the following problems in MCC …

Double auctions are considered to be effective price-scheduling mechanisms to resolve
cloud resource allocation and service pricing problems. Most of the classical double auction …

The pricing mechanism of cloud-computing resources is an essential issue for both cloud
customers and service providers, especially from the point of multi-provider competition …

The combinatorial auction (CA) is an efficient mechanism for resource allocation in different
fields, including cloud computing. It can obtain high economic efficiency and user flexibility …

Resource procurement using reverse auction in Cloud computing is an interesting but a
complex problem as it involves many attributes and constraints. Reverse auction is a …