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 …

To support multiple on-demand services over fixed communication networks, network
operators must allow flexible customization and fast provision of their network resources …

Enterprises increasingly use public cloud services for critical business needs. However,
Internet protocols force clouds to contend with a lack of control, reducing the speed at which …

Recent trends show that cloud computing is growing to span more and more globally
distributed datacenters. For geo-distributed datacenters, there is an increasingly need for …

Network function virtualization is a promising technology to simultaneously support multiple
services with diverse characteristics and requirements in the 5G and beyond networks. In …

OpenFlow is a leading standard for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and has already
played a significant role in resha** network infrastructures. However, a wide range of …

Optimal placement and selection of service instances in a distributed heterogeneous cloud
is a complex trade-off between application requirements and resource capabilities that …

Many big-data computing applications have been deployed in cloud platforms. These
applications normally demand concurrent data transfers among computing nodes for …

Abstract Cloud Native Software Defined Wide Area Networks (CN-WANs) are proposed to
optimize the network performance based on the application requirement. In this paper, we …

Content delivery networks (CDNs) maintain multiple transit routes from content distribution
servers to eyeball ISP networks which provide Internet connectivity to end users. Due to the …