Emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) require latency-aware
computation for real-time application processing. In IoT environments, connected things …

Cloud computing is gaining significant attention and virtualized datacenters are becoming
popular as a cost-effective infrastructure. The network services are transitioning from a host …

Abstract Service Function Chaining (SFC) is the problem of deploying various network
service instances over geographically distributed data centers and providing inter …

Cloud computing is gaining significant attention, however, security is the biggest hurdle in its
wide acceptance. Users of cloud services are under constant fear of data loss, security …

In this paper we introduce the Generalized Virtual Networking (GVN) concept. GVN provides
a framework to influence the routing of packets based on service level information that is …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is intended to provide a network where information flows
could easily be set up between any kinds of products, devices, users and information …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Service Chaining (SC) are novel service
deployment approaches in the contemporary cloud environments for increased flexibility …

Cloud computing has revolutionised the development and deployment of applications by
running them cost-effectively in remote data centres. With the increasing need for mobility …

Cloud systems, as any other system, must be reliable. This means that the system should
respond correctly in presence of failures, which are quite probable in a distributed, largely …

Optimal placement and selection of service instances in a distributed heterogeneous cloud
is a complex trade-off between application requirements and resource capabilities that …