Nowadays, cloud computing is an emerging technology due to virtualization and providing
low price services on pay-as per-use basis. One of the main challenges in this regard is how …

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

In recent years, cloud storage systems have emerged as a promising technology for storing
data blocks on various cloud servers. One of the main mechanisms in cloud storage systems …

With the development and maturity of cloud storage, it has attracted a large number of users.
Although cloud users do not need to concern themselves with the infrastructure used for …

Abstract Information can be shared across the Internet using cloud computing, a powerful
paradigm for meeting the needs of individuals and organizations. To minimize access time …

As the number of requests in the cloud increases, providers face more problems (eg, task
scheduling and resource management). The exhaustive search for determining the optimal …

Federated cloud is a promising solution for cloud providers that enables collaboration and
leasing resources among multiple cloud providers. However, resource management in such …

Cloud computing has attracted increasing attention in data management. Data replication,
which brings files closer to the data consumers, is a well-known technique that reduces …

It is critical in cloud computing to have excellent data accessibility and system performance.
To improve system availability, commonly used data should be duplicated to many places …

Task scheduling and data replication are highly coupled resource management techniques
that are widely used by cloud providers to improve the overall system performance and …