A survey of mobile cloud computing applications: perspectives and challenges

Y Wang, IR Chen, DC Wang - Wireless Personal Communications, 2015‏ - Springer
As mobile computing has been developed for decades, a new model for mobile computing,
namely, mobile cloud computing, emerges resulting from the marriage of powerful yet …

Blockchain-based solutions for cloud computing: A survey

MR Dorsala, VN Sastry, S Chapram - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Quality-of-service in cloud computing: modeling techniques and their applications

D Ardagna, G Casale, M Ciavotta, JF Pérez… - Journal of internet …, 2014‏ - Springer
Recent years have seen the massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud. One
of the challenges posed by cloud applications is Quality-of-Service (QoS) management …

A framework for truthful online auctions in cloud computing with heterogeneous user demands

H Zhang, H Jiang, B Li, F Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Auction-style pricing policies can effectively reflect the underlying trends in demand and
supply for the cloud resources, and thereby attracted a research interest recently. In …

Mobile edge computing

B Liang, VWS Wong, R Schober… - Key technologies for …, 2017‏ - books.google.com
The ongoing development of the fifth generation (5G) wireless technologies is taking place
in a unique landscape of recent advancement in information processing, marked by the …

MDP and machine learning-based cost-optimization of dynamic resource allocation for network function virtualization

R Shi, J Zhang, W Chu, Q Bao, X **… - 2015 IEEE …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) enables service providers to offer
software-defined network functions with elasticity and flexibility. Its core technique, dynamic …

Dynamic pricing and profit maximization for the cloud with geo-distributed data centers

J Zhao, H Li, C Wu, Z Li, Z Zhang… - IEEE INFOCOM 2014 …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud providers often choose to operate datacenters over a large geographic span, in order
that users may be served by resources in their proximity. Due to time and spatial diversities …

A survey on spot pricing in cloud computing

D Kumar, G Baranwal, Z Raza, DP Vidyarthi - Journal of Network and …, 2018‏ - Springer
Amazon offers spot instances to cloud customers using an auction-like mechanism. These
instances are dynamically priced and offered at a lower price with less guarantee of …

Generalized nash equilibria for the service provisioning problem in multi-cloud systems

D Ardagna, M Ciavotta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

An auction mechanism for cloud spot markets

AN Toosi, K Vanmechelen, F Khodadadi… - ACM Transactions on …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
Dynamic forms of resource pricing have recently been introduced by cloud providers that
offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities in order to maximize profits and balance …