Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

Cloud computing is emerging as a promising field offering a variety of computing services to
end users. These services are offered at different prices using various pricing schemes and …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represents a new paradigm of network service
provisioning. NFV providers acquire cloud resources, install virtual network functions …

The Tributary elastic control system embraces the uncertain nature of transient cloud
resources, such as AWS spot instances, to manage elastic services with latency SLOs more …

In order to keep the costs of operating in-memory storage on the public cloud low, we devise
novel ideas and enabling modeling and optimization techniques for combining conventional …

By employing local renewable energy sources and power generation units while connected
to the central grid, microgrid can usher in great benefits in terms of cost efficiency, power …

The introduction of network function virtualization (NFV) leads to a new business model in
which the Telecommunication Service Provider needs to rent cloud resources to …

Cloud providers have recently introduced burstable instances-virtual machines whose CPU
capacity is rate limited by token-bucket mechanisms. A user of a burstable instance is able to …

Cloud computing has become a popular platform for processing big data analysis jobs with
its advantages of high-availability, elasticity and cost-efficiency. Many big data analysis …