Cloud computing is today's most emphasized Information and Communications Technology
(ICT) paradigm that is directly or indirectly used by almost every online user. However, such …

Virtualization technology is the backbone of cloud systems, the fastest-growing energy
consumers, globally. It holds an imperative position in the resource management area by …

Virtual machine placement is a process of map** virtual machines to physical machines.
The optimal placement is important for improving power efficiency and resource utilization in …

Although network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising approach for providing elastic
network functions, it faces several challenges in terms of adaptation to diverse network …

Efficiently scheduling deep learning jobs on large-scale GPU clusters is crucial for job
performance, system throughput, and hardware utilization. It is getting ever more …

In cloud computing, cloud providers can offer cloud consumers two provisioning plans for
computing resources, namely reservation and on-demand plans. In general, cost of utilizing …

Elastic resource scaling lets cloud systems meet application service level objectives (SLOs)
with minimum resource provisioning costs. In this paper, we present CloudScale, a system …

Server consolidation using virtualization technology has become increasingly important for
improving data center efficiency. It enables one physical server to host multiple independent …

Cloud computing offers users the ability to access large pools of computational and storage
resources on demand. Multiple commercial clouds already allow businesses to replace, or …

Nowadays, many cloud providers offer Virtual Network Function (VNF) services that are
dynamically scaled according to the workload. Enterprises enjoy these services by only …