Fog computing, an extension of cloud computing services to the edge of the network to
decrease latency and network congestion, is a relatively recent research trend. Although …

When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

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

The traditional architecture of fog computing is for one data center and multiple fog nodes. It
is unable to adapt to the current development of private cloud. In addition, virtual machines …

Live migration of virtual machines has been a powerful tool to facilitate system maintenance,
load balancing, fault tolerance, and power-saving, especially in clusters or data centers …

Cloud computing represents a major step up in computing whereby shared computation
resources are provided on demand. In such a scenario, applications and data thereof can be …

Virtualization techniques effectively handle the growing demand for computing, storage, and
communication resources in large-scale Cloud Data Centers (CDC). It helps to achieve …

In the virtualization area, replication has been considered as a mechanism to provide high
availability. A high-availability system should be active most of the time, and this is the …

Virtualization technology is currently becoming increasingly popular and valuable in cloud
computing environments due to the benefits of server consolidation, live migration, and …

Cloud is an emerging technology in the world of information technology and is built on the
key concept of virtualization. Virtualization separates hardware from software and has …