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To facilitate cost-effective and elastic computing benefits to the cloud users, the energy-efficient and secure allocation of virtual machines (VMs) plays a significant role at the data centre. The inefficient VM Placement (VMP) and sharing…
This work proposes a new resource allocation optimization framework for cellular networks using "fog" or neighborhood-based optimization rather than fully centralized or fully decentralized methods. In neighborhood-based optimization…
Network virtualization is a key enabler for 5G systems to support the expected use cases of vertical markets. In this context, we study the joint optimal deployment of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and allocation of computational…
Currently, many businesses are using cloud computing to obtain an entire IT infrastructure remotely while delegating its management to a third party. The provider of this architecture ensures the operation and maintenance of the services…
This paper investigates distributed processing in Vehicular Edge Cloud (VECs), where a group of vehicles in a car park, at a charging station or at a road traffic intersection, cluster and form a temporary vehicular cloud by combining their…
Vehicular Edge Clouds (VECs) is a new distributed processing paradigm that exploits the revolution in the processing capabilities of vehicles to offer energy efficient services and improved QoS. In this paper we tackle the problem of…
Fog computing reduces the latency induced by distant clouds by enabling the deployment of some application components at the edge of the network, on fog nodes, while keeping others in the cloud. Application components can be implemented as…
Cloud computing datacenters provide millions of virtual machines in actual cloud markets. In this context, Virtual Machine Placement (VMP) is one of the most challenging problems in cloud infrastructure management, considering the large…
Facilitating the revolution for smarter cities, vehicles are getting smarter and equipped with more resources to go beyond transportation functionality. On-Board Units (OBU) are efficient computers inside vehicles that serve safety and…
Network protocols have historically been developed on an ad-hoc basis, and cloud computing is no exception. A fundamental management protocol, not yet standardized, that cloud providers need to run to support wide-area virtual network…
Virtualization technology reduces cloud operational cost by increasing cloud resource utilization level. The incorporation of virtualization within cloud data centers can severely degrade cloud performance if not properly managed. Virtual…
Modern vehicles equipped with on-board units (OBU) are playing an essential role in the smart city revolution. The vehicular processing resources, however, are not used to their fullest potential. The concept of vehicular clouds is proposed…
Virtual machine (VM) placement is very important for cloud platforms. While techniques, such as live virtual machine migration, are very useful to balance the load in the data centers, they are expensive operations. In this position paper,…