The cloud phenomenon is quickly becoming an important service in Internet computing.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing is one of the most significant and …

In cloud computing, cloud providers can offer cloud consumers two provisioning plans for
computing resources, namely reservation and on-demand plans. In general, cost of utilizing …

Many applications in several domains such as telecommunications, network security, large-
scale sensor networks, require online processing of continuous data flows. They produce …

In this paper we present Kingfisher, a cost-aware system that provides efficient support for
elasticity in the cloud by (i) leveraging multiple mechanisms to reduce the time to transition …

Performance and power issues are becoming increasingly important in the design of large,
cluster-based multitier data centers for supporting a multitude of services. The design and …

Elasticity of cloud computing environments provides an economic incentive for automatic
resource allocation of stateful systems running in the cloud. However, these systems have to …

Enterprise clouds today support an on demand resource allocation model and can provide
resources requested by applications in a near online manner using virtual machine resizing …

Online Internet applications see dynamic workloads that fluctuate over multiple time scales.
This paper argues that the non-stationarity in Internet application workloads, which causes …

The need for high availability and performance in data management systems has been
fueling a long running interest in database replication from both academia and industry …

We propose a projection-based olfactory display method as an unencumbering way to
deliver smells using a scent projector. This device allows us to deliver smells both spatially …