To reduce the price of pay-as-you-go style cloud applications, an increasing number of
cloud service providers offer resource reservation-based services that allow tenants to …

The cloud provides low-cost and flexible IT resources (hardware and software) across the
Internet. As more cloud providers seek to drive greater business outcomes and the …

The resource reservation is one of the key techniques to ensure the quality of service (QoS)
of a multimedia application. In mobile cloud computing (MCC), the resource reservation and …

As cloud federation allows companies in need of computational resources to use
computational resources hosted by different cloud providers, it reduces the cost of IT …

Cloud computing exploits virtualization to provision resources efficiently. Increasingly, Virtual
Machines (VMs) have high bandwidth requirements; however, previous research does not …

Computation offloading is envisioned as a promising technique for prolonging the battery
lives and enhancing the computation capability of mobile devices. In this paper, we study the …

Cloud computing is being widely accepted and utilized in the business world. From the
perspective of businesses utilizing the cloud, it is critical to meet their customers' …

The proliferation of mobile devices and user applications has continued to contribute to the
humongous volume of data traffic in cellular networks. To surmount this challenge, service …

With the popularity of cloud computing services, an increasing number of users begin to use
subscription-based services. Due to the semi-trusted cloud servers that may access the …

In an IaaS cloud, virtual machines (VMs), also called instances, may be classified as
reserved instances and on-demand instances. The reserved instances having long-term …