Auction mechanisms have recently attracted substantial attention as an efficient approach to
pricing and resource allocation in cloud computing. This work, to the authors' knowledge …

The prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) in contemporary settings has induced systems
composed of heterogeneous devices, computing infrastructures, and cloud services. New …

Edge cloud computing is a new paradigm in which the computation and storage services of
remote cloud data centers are moved to Edge Cloud Nodes (ECNs) in network edges …

Edge computing (EC) has emerged as a key technology in future communication networks
to enhance user experience and enable various Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In this …

Edge computing is a promising computing paradigm by pushing the cloud service to the
network edge. To this end, edge infrastructure providers (EIPs) need to bring computation …

Task offloading is a promising technology to exploit the available resources in edge cloud
efficiently. Many incentive mechanisms for offloading systems have been proposed …

Mobile edge computing enables resource-limited edge clouds (ECs) in federation to help
each other with resource-hungry yet delay-sensitive service requests. Contrary to common …

Resource provisioning by cloud computing is one of the emerging fields for providing
computing services anywhere at any time without physical barriers. It not only reduces the …

Emerging as an alternative to cloud computing, fog computing is expected to provide low-
latency, high-throughput, reliable services for ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT) …

Transparent Computing (TC) is becoming a promising paradigm in network computing era.
Although many researchers believe that TC model has a high requirement for the …