Cloud computing is a model for providing computing resources as a utility which faces
several challenges on management of virtualized resources. Accordingly, virtual machine …

Live migration allows moving a continuously running VM from one physical host to another.
It provides special benefit for data centers in a variety of scenarios including balancing …

The current cloud market, constituted by many different public cloud providers, is highly
fragmented in terms of interfaces, pricing schemes, virtual machine offers and value-added …

The introduction of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) enables service providers to offer
software-defined network functions with elasticity and flexibility. Its core technique, dynamic …

We propose an integrated, energy-efficient, resource allocation framework for
overcommitted clouds. The framework makes great energy savings by 1) minimizing …

Live migration, the process of moving a virtual machine (VM) interruption-free between
physical hosts is a core concept in modern data centers. Power management strategies use …

With the intense competition between cloud providers, oversubscription is increasingly
important to maintain profitability. Oversubscribing physical resources is not without …

A challenge in cloud resource management is to design self-adaptable solutions capable to
react to unpredictable workload fluctuations and changing utility principles. This paper …

In recent years, vehicular cloud computing (VCC) has gained vast attention for providing a
variety of services by creating virtual machines (VMs). These VMs use the resources that are …

Cloud data centers are generally composed of heterogeneous commodity servers hosting
multiple virtual machines (VMs) with potentially different specifications and fluctuating …