Existing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) service placements that reuse already
deployed network functions either reuse an entire Service Function Chain (SFC) or only …

Network edge services have contributed to ordinary people's daily lives with numerous
conveniences but the accompanying problems, such as counterfeiting, the trust crisis and …

Applications hosted in commercial clouds are typically multi-tier and comprise multiple
tightly coupled virtual machines (VMs). Service providers (SPs) cater to the users using VM …

Edge computing is a new computing paradigm, which aims at enhancing user experience by
bringing computing resources closer to where data is produced by Internet of Things (IoT) …

In this paper, we focus on the computational offloading problem among unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) acting as small flying cloudlets that receive compute-intensive tasks from …

Buildings, producing more carbon footprints than the transportation sector, account for a
significant portion of the United States' total energy consumption. By designing modern …

Cloud federation helps cloud providers to scale up by renting resources from other providers
when the workload increased. Moreover, cloud providers with idle or underutilized …

Distributed cloud/edge resources are needed to execute pervasive artificial intelligence
tasks, collectively. The AI workload and data sets have variable multitasking granularity …

As an efficient commercial information technology, cloud computing has attracted more and
more users and enterprises to use it. Faced with such a large number and variety of …

Advancement of technology has enabled access to innovative applications for connected
devices. To handle growing computation requirements, the backend cloud data centers …