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 …

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 …

In past decades, significant attention has been devoted to the task allocation and load
balancing in distributed systems. Although there have been some related surveys about this …

For applications in large-scale distributed systems, it is becoming increasingly important to
provide reliable scheduling by evaluating the reliability of resources. However, most existing …

In service oriented architectures, Quality of Service (QoS) is a key issue. Service requestors
evaluate QoS at run time to address their service invocation to the most suitable provider …

Current cloud services are deployed on wellprovisioned and centrally controlled
infrastructures. However, there are several classes of services for which the current cloud …

Resource reliability is crucial in scheduling workflow instances for different tenants. Both
cloud resource reliability and precedence constraints in workflows bring about great …

Internet based volunteer computing projects such as SETI@ home are currently restricted to
performing coarse grained, embarrassingly parallel master-worker style tasks. This is partly …

MapReduce, a cloud computing paradigm, is gaining popularity. However, like all open
distributed computing frameworks, MapReduce suffers from the integrity assurance …

With the increasing popularity and the need for low-cost green computing systems, new
paradigms and models such as fog, edge, and volunteer cloud computing (eg cuCloud) …