The burgeoning development of the cloud market has promoted the expansion of resources
held by cloud providers, but the resulting underutilization caused by the over-provisioned …

With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), the current" cloud-only" architectures
cannot efficiently handle IoT's data processing and communications needs, while providing …

Double auction-based pricing model is an efficient pricing model to balance users' and
providers' benefits. Existing double auction mechanisms usually require both users and …

Censorship circumvention is often fueled by supporters out of goodwill. However, hosting
circumvention proxies can be costly, especially when they are placed in the cloud. We argue …

As infrastructure-as-a-service clouds become more popular, cloud providers face the
complicated problem of maximizing their resource utilization by handling the dynamics of …

Over the last decade, we have witnessed growing data volumes generated and stored
across geographically distributed datacenters. Processing such geo-distributed datasets …

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers continually seek higher resource
utilization to better amortize capital costs. Higher utilization not only can enable higher profit …

The Raft algorithm maintains strong consistency across data replicas in Cloud. This
algorithm places nodes, ie, leader and follower, to serve read/write requests spanning geo …

Data-parallel applications generate a mix of coflows with and without deadlines. Deadline
coflows are mission-critical and must be completed within deadlines, while the non-deadline …

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and the popularity of Artificial
Intelligence (Al) technology research have brought new opportunities for the development of …