Heterogeneous distributed computing environments are emerging for developing data-
intensive (big data) applications that require to access huge data files. Therefore, effective …

Reliability and high availability have always been a major concern in distributed systems.
Providing highly available and reliable services in cloud computing is essential for …

Meeting tenant performance requirements through data replication while ensuring an
economic profit is very challenging for cloud providers. For this purpose, we propose a data …

Abstract Nowadays, most modern distributed environments, including service-oriented
architecture (SOA), cloud computing, and mobile computing, support replication …

Cloud computing environment is getting more interesting as a new trend of data
management. Data replication has been widely applied to improve data access in …

Cloud computing is a relatively recent computing paradigm that is often the answer for
dealing with large amounts of data. Tenants expect the cloud providers to keep supplying an …

This paper presents a survey of data replication strategies in cloud systems. Based on the
survey and reviews of existing classifications, we propose another classification of …

In today's world, tenants of cloud systems expect timely responses to queries that process
ever-increasing sizes of data. However, most cloud providers offer their services without any …

Data replication is widely used in cloud storage and data grid to improve the parallel service
efficiency and the performance of system, which can promote the file availability and system …

The expanding adoption of cloud-based services in recent years puts stringent requirements
on datacenters (DCs) and their interconnection networks. Optical inter-datacenter networks …