Fog computing, an extension of cloud computing services to the edge of the network to
decrease latency and network congestion, is a relatively recent research trend. Although …

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 …

Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

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

Live migration of virtual machine (VM) provides a significant benefit for virtual server mobility
without disrupting service. It is widely used for system management in virtualized data …

As interest in adopting Cloud computing for various applications is rapidly growing, it is
important to understand how these applications and systems will perform when deployed on …

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers customers (tenants) a scalable and
economical way to provision virtual machines (VMs) on demand while charging them only …

Live migration of virtual machines has been a powerful tool to facilitate system maintenance,
load balancing, fault tolerance, and power-saving, especially in clusters or data centers …

Virtualization is a vital technology of cloud computing which enables the partition of a
physical host into several Virtual Machines (VMs). The number of active hosts can be …

Multitenant data infrastructures for large cloud platforms hosting hundreds of thousands of
applications face the challenge of serving applications characterized by small data footprint …