The advent of virtualisation and the increasing demand for outsourced, elastic compute
charged on a pay-as-you-use basis has stimulated the development of large-scale Cloud …

Nowadays, many cloud providers offer Virtual Network Function (VNF) services that are
dynamically scaled according to the workload. Enterprises enjoy these services by only …

With the rapid growth of cloud applications and users, Data Center Network (DCN) has
become a critical component in the cloud ecosystem to sustain remarkable computation …

Data center power optimization has recently received a great deal of research attention. For
example, server consolidation has been demonstrated as one of the most effective energy …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm to logically centralize the
network control plane and automate the configuration of individual network elements. At the …

Cloud computing is an evolving and fast-growing computing paradigm that has gained great
interest from both industry and academia. Consequently, universities are actively integrating …

Despite the dramatic improvements achieved in building energy-efficient electronic devices,
the amount of electricity consumed worldwide to power the global information technology …