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New dynamic cloud pricing options are emerging with cloud providers offering resources as a wide range of CPU frequencies and matching prices that can be switched at runtime. On the other hand, cloud providers are facing the problem of…
The Cloud Computing paradigm consists in providing customers with virtual services of the quality which meets customers' requirements. A cloud service operator is interested in using his infrastructure in the most efficient way while…
Data clustering is an instrumental tool in the area of energy resource management. One problem with conventional clustering is that it does not take the final use of the clustered data into account, which may lead to a very suboptimal use…
Cost optimization is a common goal of workflow schedulers operating in cloud computing environments. The use of spot instances is a potential means of achieving this goal, as they are offered by cloud providers at discounted prices compared…
Due to the recent wide use of computational resources in cloud computing, new resource provisioning challenges have been emerged. Resource provisioning techniques must keep total costs to a minimum while meeting the requirements of the…
For a cloud service provider, delivering optimal system performance while fulfilling Quality of Service (QoS) obligations is critical for maintaining a viably profitable business. This goal is often hard to attain given the irregular nature…
Cloud computing is one of the most used distributed systems for data processing and data storage. Due to the continuous increase in the size of the data processed by cloud computing, scheduling multiple tasks to maintain efficiency while…
Cloud computing has emerged as a powerful and elastic platform for internet service hosting, yet it also draws concerns of the unpredictable performance of cloud-based services due to network congestion. To offer predictable performance,…
Today's cloud infrastructure landscape offers a broad range of services to build and operate software applications. The myriad of options, however, has also brought along a new layer of complexity. When it comes to procuring cloud computing…
Edge computing is an emerging technology which places computing at the edge of the network to provide an ultra-low latency. Computation offloading, a paradigm that migrates computing from mobile devices to remote servers, can now use the…
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Multi-cloud environments enable a cost-efficient scaling of cloud-native applications across geographically distributed virtual nodes with different pricing models. In this context, the resource fragmentation caused by frequent changes in…
Clouds inherit CPU scheduling policies of operating systems. These policies enforce fairness while leveraging best-effort mechanisms to enhance responsiveness of all schedulable entities, irrespective of their service level objectives…
In recent years with the advent of high bandwidth internet access availability, the cloud computing applications have boomed. With more and more applications being run over the cloud and an increase in the overall user base of the different…
Cloud containers represent a new, light-weight alternative to virtual machines in cloud computing. A user job may be described by a container graph that specifies the resource profile of each container and container dependence relations.…