Recently, more and more data-intensive scientific applications have been deployed in cloud
environments. Therefore, how to improve the efficiency of data transfer becomes an …

Distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs) such as grids and clouds are popular
instruments for conducting scientific research nowadays. Computing resources from multiple …

A data grid is a structural design or cluster of services that enables transmission of a huge
amount of geographically distributed data. Hence, it requires massive storage resources to …

In large-scale grid platforms, providing fault-tolerance for users is always a challenging task
because of the uncertainty of network resources. In this paper, we present an intelligent …

There is a growing demand for large-scale distributed storage systems to support resource
sharing and fault tolerance. Although heterogeneity issues of distributed systems have been …