Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

Using resources and services from multiple Clouds is a natural evolution from consuming
the ones from in-silo Clouds. Technological and administrative barriers are however slowing …

Context: In recent years, the valuable knowledge that can be retrieved from petabyte scale
datasets–known as Big Data–led to the development of solutions to process information …

This chapter describes ExoGENI, a multi-domain testbed infrastructure built using the ORCA
control framework. ExoGENI links GENI to two advances in virtual infrastructure (IaaS) …

The consumption of resources and services from multiple Clouds for reasons like high
availability, cost reductions or special features is a natural evolution from in-silo Clouds …

In this survey, we discuss the evolution of distributed computing from the utility computing to
the fog computing, various research challenges for the development of fog computing …

Big data analytics has attracted close attention from both industry and academic because of
its great benefits in cost reduction and better decision making. As the fast growth of various …

Distributed data processing frameworks (eg, Hadoop, Spark, and Flink) are widely used to
distribute data among computing nodes of a cloud. Recently, there have been increasing …

Today, data-intensive applications rely on geographically distributed systems to leverage
data collection, storing and processing. Data locality has been seen as a prominent …

With more data generated and collected in a geographically distributed manner, combined
by the increased computational requirements for large scale data-intensive analysis, we …