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 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 is an effective technique that decreases retrieval time, thus reducing energy
consumption in Cloud. When necessary files aren't locally available, they will be fetched …

Cloud computing environment is getting more interesting as a new trend of data
management. Data replication has been widely applied to improve data access in …

At present, huge cloud-based applications have put forward higher requests for data center
storage. In a large-scale Cloud environment, data replication provides an appropriate …

In data grid systems, data replication aims to increase availability, fault tolerance, load
balancing and scalability while reducing bandwidth consumption, and job execution time …

Data Grids provide environment for huge, data-intensive applications that produce and
process enormous data. Such environments are thus asked to manage data and schedule …

In recent years, grid computing has made a fast growth in many scientific experiments and
research centers in the area of medicine, scientific computation. Many research works in …

Smart phone and its applications are used more and more extensively in our daily life. Short
delay of arriving data is important to these applications, especially to some time-sensitive …

Nowadays, data grids can be seen as frameworks responding to the needs of large scale
applications by affording so many resources. These are distributed on different …