Variable pricing cloud resources are the most recent advancement in cloud computing
business models. Cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, aka Amazon AWS provide a …

Despite the popularity and widespread usage of cloud computing, the cost of resources is
one of the most important issues in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Therefore …

In this article, an extensive survey on optimal utilization of preemptible instances in cloud is
presented. Different techniques used in state-of-the-art research for efficient utilization of …

Most large cloud operators offer a lower-priced, lower-priority alternative to regular (on-
demand or reserved) virtual machines, commonly referred to as spot instances. Spot …

The automated tracking of social insects, such as ants, could dramatically increase the
fidelity and amount of analyzed data for studying complex group behaviors. Recently, data …

An auction-based cloud model is followed in the spot pricing mechanism, where the spot
instances charge changes with time. The user is bound to pay for the time that is initially …

Public providers around the world offer computing, storage, and communication services as
virtual machines in a pay-per-use model. From the user perspective, it is important to choose …

Securing communication networks can no longer be ensured by singular and isolated
security technologies like Internet firewalls or intrusion detection systems but rather calls for …

The improvement in virtualisation technologies, as well as higher data transmission rates
and the popularisation of the Internet contributed to strengthen the cloud computing. This …

Cloud computing delivers platform, software application and hardware infrastructure as a
service over Internet. It allows the users to utilize the service on-demand and pay-per-use …