Blockchain, as the underlying technology of crypto-currencies, has attracted significant
attention. It has been adopted in numerous applications, such as smart grid and Internet-of …

The landscape of cloud computing has significantly changed over the last decade. Not only
have more providers and service offerings crowded the space, but also cloud infrastructure …

Abstract “Volunteer computing” is the use of consumer digital devices for high-throughput
scientific computing. It can provide large computing capacity at low cost, but presents …

Automated resource provisioning techniques enable the implementation of elastic services,
by adapting the available resources to the service demand. This is essential for reducing …

When focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT), communicating and coordinating sensor--
actuator data via the cloud involves inefficient overheads and reduces autonomous …

With the emergence of big data computing and analysis, cloud computing services become
more and more popular, which has recently drawn researchers' great attentions to develop …

The author of this book has identified the seven key emerging Internet-related technologies:
Internet of things, smart everything, big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software …

Mobile robots and drones have limited onboard computation power, which severely restricts
mission planning. With the emergence of Fog Computing, computations may be offloaded to …

Owing to storage and access of the computing applications, load balancing algorithms play
a vital role in the next generation cloud computing. Load balancing, that is, allocation of …

Cloud has emerged as a new computing paradigm that promises to move into computing-as-
utility era. Desktop Cloud is a new type of Cloud computing. It merges two computing …