We present a general performance model for communication architectures in Internet of
Things scenarios. The architecture involves three processing layers, ie, edge, fog, and cloud …

Cloud computing has emerged as a new commercial infrastructure paradigm which has
revolutionized the IT industry. It has particularly the advantage of delivering a flexible, high …

Cloud service systems typically rank the tasks from diverse users according to their
privileges. Besides providing high performance service to membership-based users …

The problem of energy saving in data centers has recently attracted significant interest within
the research community, and the adaptive data center activation model has emerged as a …

There are an increasing number of enterprises deploying their application services to multi-
cloud to benefit the advantages brought by cloud computing. The multi-cloud composite …

The development of edge computing provides a novel deployment strategy for delay-aware
applications, in which applications initially deployed in central servers are shifted closer to …

We study a scenario in which a buyer (eg, Uber) buys cloud capacity from a seller (eg,
Amazon Web services) to run its business. One of the key factors that affects the quality of …

We study the deadline scheduling problem for multiple deferrable jobs that arrive in a
random manner and are to be processed before individual deadlines. The processing of the …

Performance is one of the main aspects that should be taken into consideration during the
design, development, tuning and optimisation of computer networks supported by cloud …

Among the different QoS metrics and parameters considered in cloud computing are the
waiting time of cloud tasks, execution time of tasks in VM's, and the utilization rate of servers …