Bitcoin is an innovative decentralized cryptocurrency whose core security relies on a “proof
of work” procedure, which requires network participants to repeatedly compute hashes on …

The amount of computing resources required by current and future data-intensive
applications is expected to increase dramatically, creating high demands for cloud …

Cloud Federation is a recent paradigm that helps Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers
to overcome resource limitation during spikes in demand for Virtual Machines (VMs) by …

An N-coalition noncooperative game is formulated in this paper. In the formulated game,
there are N interacting coalitions and each of them includes a set of agents. Each coalition …

Virtualization of resources on the cloud offers a scalable means of consuming services
beyond the capabilities of small systems. In a cloud that offers infrastructure such as …

The prominence of cloud computing led to unprecedented proliferation in the number of web
services deployed in cloud data centers. In parallel, service communities have gained …

This is one of the first books to cover the technological and architectural advances in MCC.
The author addresses security and privacy concerns, the business aspects of MCC models …

Having received significant attention in the industry, the cloud market is nowadays fiercely
competitive with many cloud providers. On one hand, cloud providers compete against each …

Blockchain and cryptocurrency are a hot topic in today's digital world. In this paper, we
create a game theoretic model in continuous time. We consider a dynamic game model of …

This paper introduces a novel blockchain-based decentralized federation model that
embodies quality verification for cloud providers who lease computing resources from each …