With rapid advancement of Cloud computing and networking technologies, a wide spectrum
of Cloud services have been developed by various providers and utilized by numerous …

Edge computing is the next Internet frontier that will leverage computing resources located
near users, sensors, and data stores to provide more responsive services. Therefore, it is …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one of the most promising directions for the future of cloud
services, and serverless functions have immediately become a new middleware for building …

Cloud computing is revolutionizing the IT industry by enabling them to offer access to their
infrastructure and application services on a subscription basis. As a result, several …

Nowadays, Cloud Computing is widely used to deliver services over the Internet for both
technical and economical reasons. The number of Cloud-based services has increased …

One of the main reasons why cloud computing has gained so much popularity is due to its
ease of use and its ability to scale computing resources on demand. As a result, users can …

Cloud computing promises a number of advantages for the deployment of data-intensive
applications. One important promise is reduced cost with a pay-as-you-go business model …

In this paper, we present generic cloud performance models for evaluating Iaas, PaaS,
SaaS, and mashup or hybrid clouds. We test clouds with real-life benchmark programs and …

Increasing transaction volumes have led to a resurgence of interest in distributed transaction
processing. In particular, partitioning data across several servers can improve throughput by …

One major benefit claimed for cloud computing is elasticity: the cost to a consumer of
computation can grow or shrink with the workload. This paper offers improved ways to …