Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers customers (tenants) a scalable and
economical way to provision virtual machines (VMs) on demand while charging them only …

Enabled by virtualization technologies, various multi-tier applications (such as web
applications) are hosted by virtual machines (VMs) in cloud data centers. Live migration of …

Uninterrupted uptime is a critical aspect of Virtual Machines (VMs) offered by cloud hosting
providers. Google's VMs run on top of rapidly changing infrastructure: we regularly update …

Virtual machine (VM) live migration is a critical feature for managing virtualized
environments, enabling dynamic load balancing, consolidation for power management …

Abstract In Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enabled cloud data centers, live VM
migration is a key technology to facilitate the resource management and fault tolerance …

Load balancer, as a key component in cloud computing, seeks to improve the performance
of a distributed system by allocating workload amongst a set of cooperating hosts. A good …

Mobile Edge Cloud (MEC) is paving the way for 5G networks with respect to latency and
computation offloading. To support user mobility, a MEC application should be migrated …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) applications running on mobile devices are subject to the
low storage capacity and short battery lifetime. Edge clouds (EC) provide an approach to …

Since first demonstrated by Clark et al. in 2005, live migration of virtual machines has both
become a standard feature of hypervisors and created an active field of research. However …

Abstract Geo-distributed Datacenter Cloud is an effective solution to store, process and
transfer the big data produced by Internet-of-Things (IoT). A key challenge in this distributed …