The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology and their integration in smart
cities have changed the way we work and live, and enriched our society. However, IoT …

Cloud computing has a shared set of resources, including physical servers, networks,
storage, and user applications. Resource allocation is a critical issue for cloud computing …

Network function virtualization (NFV) brings great conveniences and benefits for the
enterprises to outsource their network functions to the cloud datacenter. In this paper, we …

With the advancement of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, various domains, such as
smart factories and smart cars have used this new technology to provide value-added …

Although information and communications technologies (ICTs) have the potential of
enabling powerful social, economic and environmental benefits, ICT systems give a non …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) opened up new opportunities in networking with its
concept of the segregated control plane from the data-forwarding hardware, which enables …

Cloud computing offers attractive features for both service providers and customers. Users
benefit from the pay-as-you-go model by saving expenditures and service providers are …

Software-Defined Networking not only addresses the shortcoming of traditional network
technologies in dealing with frequent and immediate changes in cloud data centers but also …

This paper formulates a virtual machine placement (VMP) problem, where the total power
consumption of physical machines (PMs) and switches and the total network bandwidth …

Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) provisioning is helpful not only for saving the
capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX) of a network provider but …