Usually, a large number of concurrent bag-of-tasks (BoTs) application execution requests
are submitted to cloud data centers (CDCs), which needs to be optimally scheduled on the …

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is an emerging technology for exploration of
underwater resources. Security plays an important role in the UWSNs environment because …

Storage workload prediction is a critical step for fine-grained load balancing and job
scheduling in realtime and adaptive cluster systems. However, how to perform workload …

With the rapid increase in the use of cloud computing systems, an efficient task scheduling
policy, which deals with the assignment of tasks to resources, is required to obtain maximum …

It is becoming increasingly difficult to properly control the power consumption of widely
dispersed data centers. Energy consumption is high because of the need to run these data …

Data centers have undergone significant expansions in recent years, as cloud service
providers seek to improve the quality of service and reduce operational costs. Cloud …

Driven by increasing in the demand for cloud computing, cloud providers are constantly
seeking configuration mechanisms designed to simply install a reliable and easy-to-manage …

One of the key requirements of a sustainable city is the efficiency of the underlying
technologies implemented for the provision of services to its residents. Cloud Computing is …

Geographically distributed data centers provide facilities for users to fulfill the demand of
storage and computations, where most of the operational cost is due to electricity …

Data centers are being distributed worldwide by cloud service providers (CSPs) to save
energy costs through efficient workload allocation strategies. Many CSPs are challenged by …