Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers customers (tenants) a scalable and
economical way to provision virtual machines (VMs) on demand while charging them only …

This paper reviews the background and related studies in the areas of cloud systems,
intrusion detection and blockchain applications against cyber attacks. This work aims to …

Progress of research efforts in a novel technology is contingent on having a rigorous
organization of its knowledge domain and a comprehensive understanding of all the …

Users of cloud services are presented with a bewildering choice of VM types and the choice
of VM can have significant implications on performance and cost. In this paper we address …

Performance isolation is a key challenge in cloud computing. Unfortunately, Linux has few
defenses against performance interference in shared resources such as processor caches …

Cloud computing offers users the ability to access large pools of computational and storage
resources on demand. Multiple commercial clouds already allow businesses to replace, or …

Reliability and high availability have always been a major concern in distributed systems.
Providing highly available and reliable services in cloud computing is essential for …

Power management has become increasingly necessary in large-scale datacenters to
address costs and limitations in cooling or power delivery. This paper explores how to …

SUMMARY Public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds such as Amazon, GoGrid and
Rackspace deliver computational resources by means of virtualisation technologies. These …

Highly modular data center applications such as Bing, Facebook, and Amazon's retail
platform are known to be susceptible to long tails in response times. Services such as …