Abstract The Internet of Things needs for computing power and storage are expected to
remain on the rise in the next decade. Consequently, the amount of data generated by …

Data centers in public, private, and hybrid cloud settings make it possible to provision virtual
machines (VMs) with unprecedented flexibility. However, purchasing, operating, and …

Fog computing provides a distributed infrastructure at the edges of the network, resulting in
low-latency access and faster response to application requests when compared to …

Fog computing extends cloud services to the edge of the network. In such scenario, it is
necessary to decide where applications should be executed so that their quality of service …

In cloud computing, task scheduling plays a major role and the efficient schedule of tasks
can increase the cloud system efficiency. To successfully meet the dynamic requirements of …

Cloud Computing has grown exponentially in the business and research community over
the last few years. It is now an emerging field and becomes more popular due to recent …

Handoff mechanisms allow mobile users to move across multiple wireless access points
while maintaining their voice and/or data sessions. A traditional handoff process is …

Workflow Scheduling (WFS) mainly focuses on task allocation to achieve the desired
workload balancing by pursuing optimal utilization of available resources. At the same time …

Workflow scheduling in scientific computing systems is one of the most challenging
problems that focuses on satisfying user-defined quality of service requirements while …

Scheduling is essentially a decision-making process that enables resource sharing among a
number of activities by determining their execution order on the set of available resources …