The cloud phenomenon is quickly becoming an important service in Internet computing.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing is one of the most significant and …

While social Virtual Reality (VR) applications such as Facebook Spaces are becoming
popular, they are not compatible with classic mobile-or cloud-based solutions due to their …

Mobile edge computing is a new cloud computing paradigm, which makes use of small-
sized edge clouds to provide real-time services to users. These mobile edge-clouds (MECs) …

Auction mechanisms have recently attracted substantial attention as an efficient approach to
pricing and resource allocation in cloud computing. This work, to the authors' knowledge …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a new paradigm which has been introduced to solve the
inefficiencies of mobile cloud computing technologies. The key idea behind MEC is to …

The physical topology is emerging as the next frontier in an ongoing effort to render
communication networks more flexible. While first empirical results indicate that these …

The Virtual Network Embedding Problem (VNEP) captures the essence of many resource
allocation problems. In the VNEP, customers request resources in the form of Virtual …

Motivated by the increasing need for fast distributed processing of large-scale graphs such
as the Web graph and various social networks, we study a number of fundamental graph …

Edge computing is emerging as a promising computing paradigm for supporting next-
generation applications that rely on low-latency network connections in the Internet-of …

The emergence of on-demand service provisioning by Federated Cloud Providers (FCPs) to
Cloud Users (CU) has fuelled significant innovations in cloud provisioning models. Owing to …