When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm which aims to provide reliable,
customized and QoS guaranteed computing dynamic environments for end-users. This …

We propose a new type of saliency—context-aware saliency—which aims at detecting the
image regions that represent the scene. This definition differs from previous definitions …

Due to the existence of multiple stakeholders with conflicting goals and policies, alterations
to the existing Internet architecture are now limited to simple incremental updates; …

Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and,
more specifically, the one that makes it different to an" advanced outsourcing" solution …

This paper describes VINI, a virtual network infrastructure that allows network researchers to
evaluate their protocols and services in a realistic environment that also provides a high …

(57) ABSTRACT A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical
resources for processing, storage and network com munications, the virtual infrastructure …

Cloud computing is expected to become a common solution for deploying applications
thanks to its capacity to leverage developers from infrastructure management tasks, thus …

Network virtualization refers to a broad set of technologies. Commercial solutions have been
offered by the industry for years, while more recently the academic community has …