Abstract Data Center Networks (DCNs) are attracting growing interest from both academia
and industry to keep pace with the exponential growth in cloud computing and enterprise …

Cloud computing offers utility-oriented IT services to users worldwide. Based on a pay-as-
you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific, and …

The demand for cloud computing is increasing dramatically due to the high computational
requirements of business, social, web and scientific applications. Nowadays, applications …

Data centers are experiencing a remarkable growth in the number of interconnected servers.
Being one of the foremost data center design concerns, network infrastructure plays a pivotal …

Data centers have a crucial role in current Internet architecture supporting content-centric
networking. State-of-the-art data centers have different architectures like fat-tree, DCell, or …

Cloud based applications and services require high performance and strong reliability
provided by data center networks. To overcome the problem of traditional tree based data …

The high power consumption of data centers confronts the providers with major challenges.
However, not only the servers and the cooling consume a huge amount of energy, but also …

The energy consumed by data centers hosting cloud services is increasing enormously. This
brings the need to reduce energy consumption of different components in data centers. In …

To alleviate the growing concern of energy waste in networked devices, we present PCube,
a server-centric data center structure that conserves energy by varying bandwidth …

Virtual machine (VM) migration is a process of migrating VMs from one physical server to
another. It provides several benefits to a data center in a variety of scenarios including …