Increased data availability and high data access performance are of utmost importance in a
large-scale distributed system such as data cloud. To address these issues data can be …

Cloud computing provides services and infrastructures to enable end-users to access,
modify and share massive geographically distributed data. There are increasing interests in …

With the wide adoption of large-scale internet services and big data, the cloud has become
the ideal environment to satisfy the ever-growing storage demand. In this context, data …

With the wide adoption of large-scale Internet services and big data, the cloud has become
the ideal environment to satisfy the ever-growing storage demand, thanks to its seemingly …

Heterogeneous distributed computing environments are emerging for developing data-
intensive (big data) applications that require to access huge data files. Therefore, effective …

Cloud computing is a promising distributed computing platform for big data applications, eg,
scientific applications, since excessive resources can be obtained from cloud services for …

In distributed cloud computing environments, replication of data is a crucial technique for
achieving high availability and reliability. However, optimizing replication of data poses …

Cloud computing is becoming a very popular word in industry and is receiving a large
amount of attention from the research community. Replica management is one of the most …

Data replication technology has been widely used in cloud storage system. How to select
the appropriate data center to place data replication to effectively improve the access …

Replication technology is commonly used to improve data availability and reduce data
access latency in the cloud storage system by providing users with different replicas of the …