With the acceleration of the Internet in Web 2.0, Cloud computing is a new paradigm to offer
dynamic, reliable and elastic computing services. Efficient scheduling of resources or …

The ever-expanding scale of cloud datacenters necessitates automated resource
provisioning to best meet the requirements of low latency and high energy-efficiency …

With the development of edge-cloud computing technologies, distributed data centers (DCs)
have been extensively deployed across the global Internet. Since different …

Network function virtualization (NFV) supports the rapid development of service function
chain (SFC), which efficiently connects a sequence of network virtual function instances …

Cloud computing environment is becoming increasingly complex due to its large-scale
information growth and increasing heterogeneity of computing resources. Hierarchical …

How to improve resource utilization of cloud data centers (CDCs) and ensure users' quality
of service (QoS) through efficient virtual machine (VM) scheduling is an urgent problem …

For a serving system with multiple servers and a public queue, we study the scheduling of
multiple tasks with deadlines, under random task arrivals and renewable energy generation …

Introduction The migration of business and scientific operations to the cloud and the surge in
data from IoT devices have intensified the complexity of cloud resource scheduling …

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) makes cities “smart”, capable of providing
advanced municipal services to citizens more efficiently. In the literature, many applications …

Virtual machine placement (VMP) directly impacts the energy consumption, resource
utilization, and service quality of cloud data centers (CDCs), and it has become an active …