Efficient resource provision which can guarantee the satisfactory cloud computing services
to the end user, lays the foundation for the success of commercial competition. In the Iaas …

This paper surveys the opportunities and challenges in an emerging area of research that
has the potential to significantly ease the incorporation of renewable energy into the grid as …

Internet video streaming has experienced tremendous growth over the last few decades.
However, the quality of existing video delivery critically depends on the bandwidth resource …

Recently, the demand for data center computing has surged, increasing the total energy
footprint of data centers worldwide. Data centers typically comprise three subsystems: IT …

Energy expenditure has become a significant fraction of data center operating costs.
Recently," geographical load balancing" has been suggested to reduce energy cost by …

Demand response is a crucial aspect of the future smart grid. It has the potential to provide
significant peak demand reduction and to ease the incorporation of renewable energy into …

The explosive development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has
significantly enlarged both the energy demands and the CO 2 emissions, and consequently …

Large-scale online service providers have been increasingly relying on geographically
distributed cloud infrastructures for service hosting and delivery. In this context, a key …

Planet-scale video Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) deliver a significant fraction of the
entire Internet traffic. Effective caching at the edge is vital for the feasibility of these CDNs …

Light field cameras have been recently shown to be very effective in applications such as
digital refocusing and 3D reconstruction. In a single snapshot these cameras provide a …