Blockchain is a disruptive technology applied by academia and industry in a broad spectrum
of applications ranging from cryptocurrency, financial services, IoT, 5G, risk management to …

Driven by the vision of cloud and edge computing as the 5th utility, a major challenge is the
efficient resource management and pricing taking into account incentives and preferences of …

This work studies resource allocation in a cloud market through the auction of Virtual
Machine (VM) instances. It generalizes the existing literature by introducing combinatorial …

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has become a promising technique to accommodate
demands of resource-constrained mobile devices by offloading the task onto edge clouds …

Mobile-edge cloud computing is a new paradigm to provide cloud computing capabilities at
the edge of pervasive radio access networks in close proximity to mobile users. Aiming at …

The amount of computing resources required by current and future data-intensive
applications is expected to increase dramatically, creating high demands for cloud …

Auction mechanisms have recently attracted substantial attention as an efficient approach to
pricing and resource allocation in cloud computing. This work, to the authors' knowledge …

Cloud providers provision their various resources such as CPUs, memory, and storage in
the form of virtual machine (VM) instances which are then allocated to the users. The users …

Cloud computing has emerged as a very flexible service paradigm by allowing users to
require virtual machine (VM) resources on-demand and allowing cloud service providers …

Edge cloud computing is a new paradigm in which the computation and storage services of
remote cloud data centers are moved to Edge Cloud Nodes (ECNs) in network edges …