Cloud computing make it possible to flexibly procure, scale, and release computational
resources on demand in response to workload changes. Stakeholders in business and …

Quality-of-service and SLA guarantees are among the major challenges of cloud-based
services. In this paper we first present a new cloud model called SLAaaS—SLA aware …

Cloud Computing provides a convenient means of remote on-demand and pay-per-use
access to computing resources. However, its ad hoc management of quality-of-service and …

Cloud computing is a kind of computing model on subscription basis. In cloud computing
environment, there are a lot of cloud providers that present variety kind of services with …

Cloud computing refers to both the applications delivered as services over the Internet and
hardware and system software in the cloud server farm that provides those services. The …

Cloud computing has attracted increasing attention in recent years. With the growth in the
number and frequency of applications being deployed into clouds, the burden of resource …

Multi-cloud storage systems are becoming more popular due to the ever-expanding amount
of consumer data. This growth is accompanied by increasing concerns regarding security …

Several distributed mutual exclusion algorithms define the order in which requests are
satisfied based on the priorities assigned to requests. These algorithms are very useful for …

Distributed priority-based mutual exclusion algorithms may present starvation for low priority
requests if the shared resource is continuously asked by high priority requests. To address …

In an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the amount of resources allocated to a virtual
machine (VM) at creation time may be expressed with relative values (relative to the …