When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

Abstract Modern Cloud Data Centers exploit virtualization for efficient resource management
to reduce cloud computational cost and energy budget. Virtualization empowered by virtual …

Several new technologies such as the smart cities, the Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G
Internet need services offered by cloud computing for processing and storing more …

In an operator's datacenter, optical technologies can be employed to perform network
function (NF) chaining for larger aggregated flows in parallel with the conventional packet …

Aiming at the current problems that most physical hosts in the cloud data center are so
overloaded that it makes the whole cloud data center'load imbalanced and that existing load …

Network functions are increasingly being commoditized as software appliances on off-the-
shelf machines, popularly known as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). While this trend …

Cloud computing offers a cost-effective and elastic computing paradigm that facilitates large
scale data storage and analytics. By deploying virtualization technologies in the datacenter …

Virtual machine placement (VMP) is an important issue in selecting most suitable set of
physical machines (PMs) for a set of virtual machines (VMs) in cloud computing …

Virtualization techniques effectively handle the growing demand for computing, storage, and
communication resources in large-scale Cloud Data Centers (CDC). It helps to achieve …