Abstract With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming part of our daily life and our environment,
we expect rapid growth in the number of connected devices. IoT is expected to connect …

In today's information technology age, data is the main commodity, and possessing more
data typically generates more value in datadriven businesses. According to the International …

OpenStack is a cloud computing platform, where controller node interacts with other
compute nodes to create virtual server instances. Using this OpenStack platform it is …

Efficient usage of IT equipment in Data Centers requires modulating their power-
consumption according to the actual workload. The most effective strategy to this aim …

Edge computing is an effective paradigm for proximity in computation, but must inexorably
face mobility issues and traffic fluctuations. While software orchestration may provide …

Cloud computing is the quick, simple, and economical distribution of computing services. To
offer quality services in cloud infrastructure, the NFV Management and Orchestration …

Mobile and energy harvesting devices increasingly provide resources for edge
environments. These devices' mobility and limited energy budgets may cause failures and …

With the rise of edge computing paradigms, multimedia applications will have to tackle
unprecedented management issues, pursuing an optimal balance between performance …

Due to the long latency of accessing services from cloud datacenters, mobile edge
computing (MEC) has been proposed to provide the capability of cloud computing in close …

In this paper, we describe a novel paradigm to pre-provision virtual machines (VMs) in an
energy-efficient manner for cloud elastic applications. Our approach is based on the …