When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

Mobile edge computing is a new computing paradigm, which pushes cloud computing
capabilities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge. However, with the sinking …

Traditional standalone embedded system is limited in their functionality, flexibility, and
scalability. Fog computing platform, characterized by pushing the cloud services to the …

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 …

Data centers (DCs), owing to the exponential growth of Internet services, have emerged as
an irreplaceable and crucial infrastructure to power this ever-growing trend. A DC typically …

Edge-clouds provide a promising new approach to significantly reduce network operational
costs by moving computation closer to the edge. A key challenge in such systems is to …

Service function chaining (SFC) allows the forwarding of traffic flows along a chain of virtual
network functions (VNFs). Software defined networking (SDN) solutions can be used to …

Data centers in public, private, and hybrid cloud settings make it possible to provision virtual
machines (VMs) with unprecedented flexibility. However, purchasing, operating, and …

The proliferation of innovative mobile services such as augmented reality, networked
gaming, and autonomous driving has spurred a growing need for low-latency access to …