The Internet of things (IoT) extends the Internet space by allowing smart things to sense
and/or interact with the physical environment and communicate with other physical objects …

Software-defined networks (SDN) is an evolution in networking field where the data plane is
separated from the control plane and all the controlling and management tasks are …

The rapidly evolving industry standards and transformative advances in the field of Internet
of Things are expected to create a tsunami of Big Data shortly. This, in turn, will demand real …

This paper formulates a virtual machine placement (VMP) problem, where the total power
consumption of physical machines (PMs) and switches and the total network bandwidth …

Cloud service providers offer virtual machines (VMs) as services to users over Internet. As
VMs are running on physical machines (PMs), PM power consumption needs to be …

Virtual machine (VM) placement is a key technique for energy optimization in cloud data
centers. Previous work generally focus on how to place the VMs efficiently in servers to …

Containers have revolutionized application deployment and life-cycle management in
current cloud platforms. Applications have evolved from single monoliths to complex graphs …

In the multi-tenant architecture of cloud computing, different applications have different
requirements and priorities. In the case of network congestion within a data center, failure of …

Due to the increasing demand for cloud computing and related services, cloud providers
need to come up with methods and mechanisms that increase the performance, availability …

Virtualization has achieved widespread adoption in various fields. As one of the most
significant technologies in network virtualization, an effective virtual machine placement can …