Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering
services over the Internet. Cloud computing is attractive to business owners as it eliminates …

While cloud computing has brought paradigm shifts to computing services, researchers and
developers have also found some problems inherent to its nature such as bandwidth …

In a cloud computing environment, dynamic resource allocation and reallocation are keys for
accommodating unpredictable demands and, ultimately, contribute to investment return. This …

Centralized cloud infrastructures have become the de-facto platform for data-intensive
computing today. However, they suffer from inefficient data mobility due to the centralization …

Volunteer Computing is a kind of distributed computing that harnesses the aggregated spare
computing resources of volunteer devices. It provides a cheaper and greener alternative …

Cloud computing is becoming a popular and important solution for building highly reliable
applications on distributed resources. However, it is a critical challenge to guarantee the …

This chapter proposes an efficient scheduling approach in order to optimize the
management queue while guaranteeing the Quality of Service (QoS) levels. It describes task …

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is an emerging cloud-computing paradigm that integrates
cloud computing and mobile computing to enable many useful mobile applications …

Cloud computing services are traditionally deployed on centralized computing
infrastructures confined to a few data centers, while cloud applications run in a single data …

Caching can reduce the bandwidth requirement in a mobile computing environment.
However, due to battery power limitations, a wireless mobile computer may often be forced …