The energy consumption of data centers accounts for approximately 1% of that of the world,
the average power usage effectiveness is in the range of 1.4–1.6, and the associated carbon …

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) connecting billions of mobile and stationary
devices to serve real-time applications, cloud computing paradigms face some significant …

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 …

Cloud service providers are distributing data centers geographically to minimize energy
costs through intelligent workload distribution. With increasing data volumes in emerging …

Meeting tenant performance requirements through data replication while ensuring an
economic profit is very challenging for cloud providers. For this purpose, we propose a data …

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

Storage-as-a-Service clouds generally offer both hot and cold storage tiers with different
pricing options. Hot tiers provide a higher storage price but a lower access price, and vice …

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

In social media, a huge number of worldwide data objects are posted every day. The
contents of these data objects include text, links, images, audio, and videos which could be …

Meeting performance expectations of tenants without sacrificing economic benefit is a tough
challenge for cloud providers. We propose a data replication strategy to simultaneously …