There are two actors in cloud computing environment cloud providers and cloud users. On
one hand cloud providers hold enormous computing resources in the cloud large data …

To make the cities greener, safer, and more efficient, Internet of Things (IoT) can play an
important role. Improvement in safety and quality of life can be achieved by connecting …

Cloud providers provision their various resources such as CPUs, memory, and storage in
the form of virtual machine (VM) instances which are then allocated to the users. The users …

The majority of large-scale data intensive applications executed by data centers are based
on MapReduce or its open-source implementation, Hadoop. Such applications are executed …

Cloud computing has emerged as a very flexible service paradigm by allowing users to
require virtual machine (VM) resources on-demand and allowing cloud service providers …

Auction mechanisms have recently attracted substantial attention as an efficient approach to
pricing and allocating resources in cloud computing. This work, to the authors' knowledge …

Auction-based virtual resource allocation is a major problem for cloud computing. However,
previous studies have typically equated virtual resources with ordinary items and designs …

Large-scale virtualized data centers have been built to meet the growing processing needs
of modern service applications and the shift to Cloud computing. Cloud data centers have …

Bandwidth reservation has been recognized as a value-added service to the cloud provider
in recent years. We consider an open market of cloud bandwidth reservation, in which cloud …

With the continuous increase in population, garbage management becomes most alarming
concern of today's world mainly the countries with high population rate. Excess garbage in …