The dynamic nature of the cloud environment has made the distributed resource
management process a challenge for cloud service providers. The importance of …

Due to mainstream adoption of cloud computing and its rapidly increasing usage of energy,
the efficient management of cloud computing resources has become an important issue. A …

The adoption of cloud technologies is steadily increasing. In such systems, applications can
benefit from nearly infinite virtual resources on a pay-per-use basis. However, being the …

Computing systems are becoming increasingly virtual. We come from a world where
applications were entirely developed by organizations for their own use, possibly exploiting …

Cloud Computing is emerging as a major trend in ICT industry. However, as with any new
technology, new major challenges lie ahead, one of them concerning the resource …

Abstract Given an existing Mobile Edge Cloud (MEC) network including virtualization
facilities of limited capacity, and a set of mobile Access Points (AP) whose data traffic …

Migrating an application to the cloud environment requires non-functional properties
consideration such as cost, performance and Quality of Service (QoS). Given the variety and …

Cloud Computing has assumed a relevant role in the ICT, profoundly influencing the life-
cycle of modern applications in the manner they are designed, developed, and deployed …

Recently we witnessed a deep transformation in the the design, development and
management of modern applications, which have grown in scope and size becoming …

In this paper, we propose a dynamic resource provisioning scheduler to maximize the
application throughput and minimize the computing-plus-communication energy …