A coal mine tunnel usually has a long-strip shape. Traditional single-sink cyber-physical-
systems (CPS) cannot ensure that sensor nodes far from the entrance of a coal mine tunnel …

Nowadays, more and more enterprises and organizations are hosting their data into the
cloud, in order to reduce the IT maintenance cost and enhance the data reliability. However …

While the online social network (OSN) has brought much convenience to users, there are
still some serious problems, such as personal privacy leaks. Today, OSN security and …

Mobile cloud storage services have gained phenomenal success in recent few years. In this
paper, we identify, analyze and address the synchronization (sync) inefficiency problem of …

Data availability is one of the most important performance factors in cloud storage systems.
To enhance data availability, replication is a common approach to handle the machine …

Personal storage services are one of the most popular applications based on the cloud
computing paradigm. Therefore, the analysis of possible privacy and security issues has …

The large amount of space offered by personal cloud storage services (eg, Dropbox and
OneDrive), together with the possibility of synchronizing devices seamlessly, keep attracting …

If every programmer of cloud-hosted apps possessed exceptional technical capability and
endless patience, the DevOps environment (also known as Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS) …

The cloud concept promises computing as a utility. More and more functions are moved to
cloud environments. But this transition comes at a cost: security and privacy solutions have …

Personal Cloud services, such as Dropbox or Box, have been widely adopted by users.
Unfortunately, very little is known about the internal operation and general characteristics of …