Cloud can be defined as a new computing paradigm that provides scalable, on-demand,
and virtualized resources for users. In this style of computing, users can access a shared …

Cloud computing represents a distributed computing paradigm, offering hosted services via
the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. The Service Level Agreement (SLA) serves as a …

Energy demand in the world is mostly met by conventional sources that cause carbon
emissions. Considering environmental problems and the depletion of these sources in the …

Considering its unique operational and power consumption characteristics, internet data
center (IDC) has been intensively investigated as a promising candidate to provide flexibility …

Amazon offers spot instances to cloud customers using an auction-like mechanism. These
instances are dynamically priced and offered at a lower price with less guarantee of …

In this paper, we focus on price bidding strategies of multiple users competition for resource
usage in cloud computing. We consider the problem from a game theoretic perspective and …

In the cloud computing market (CCM), computing services are traded between cloud
providers and consumers in the form of the computing capacity of virtual machines (VMs) …

The spot instance model is a virtual machine pricing scheme in which some resources of
cloud providers are offered to the highest bidder. This leads to the formation of a spot price …

Cloud services are widely used nowadays, especially in Infrastructure as a service (IaaS),
with vendors offering several purchasing options and expanding the range of services …

Coupling MPLS traffic engineering on top of a wavelength-routed WDM layer offers great
flexibility to operators to allocate traffic demands in their networks. We consider the problem …