Large-scale software systems are currently designed as distributed entities and deployed in
cloud data centers. To overcome the limitations inherent to this type of deployment …

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

Recently, there has been growing interest in distributed models for addressing issues
related to Cloud computing environments, particularly resource allocation. This involves two …

In the age of the information explosion, the energy demand for cloud data centers has
increased markedly; hence, reducing the energy consumption of cloud data centers is …

In the past few years, we have witnessed the proliferation of a heterogeneous ecosystem of
cloud providers, each one with a different infrastructure offer and pricing policy. We explore …

We present fundamental challenges for scalable and dependable service platforms and
architectures that enable flexible and dynamic provisioning of cloud services. Our findings …

Efficient resource provision which can guarantee the satisfactory cloud computing services
to the end user, lays the foundation for the success of commercial competition. In the Iaas …

The growth rate in big data and internet of things (IoT) is far exceeding the computer
performance rate at which modern processors can compute on the massive amount of data …

Virtualization technology is the backbone of cloud systems, the fastest-growing energy
consumers, globally. It holds an imperative position in the resource management area by …

This paper presents two exact algorithms for energy efficient scheduling of virtual machines
(VMs) in cloud data centers. Modeling of energy aware allocation and consolidation to …