Cloud computing is very popular because of its unique features such as scalability, elasticity,
on-demand service, and security. A large number of tasks are performed simultaneously in a …

The massive growth of cloud computing leads to huge amounts of energy consumption and
release of carbon footprints as data centers are housed by a large number of servers …

Green Computing is a recent trend in computer science, which tries to reduce the energy
consumption and carbon footprint produced by computers on distributed platforms such as …

An unheard of growth in mobile data traffic has drawn attention from academia and industry.
Mobile cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm combining cloud computing …

In a cloud environment, computing resources are available to users, and they pay only for
the used resources. Task scheduling is considered as the most important issue in cloud …

With the emerging of many data centers around the globe, heavy loads of large-scale
commercial and scientific applications executed in the cloud call for efficient cloud resource …

Reducing energy consumption in cloud data centers is one of the prime issue in the cloud
community. It reduces energy related costs and increases lifespan of high performance …

The main goal of cloud service provider is to maximize the profit from cloud infrastructure,
while cloud users want to execute their applications in minimum execution cost and time …

With the increasing scale of tasks in cloud computing, the problem of high energy
consumption becomes increasingly serious. To deal with the problem, we propose a cloud …

Cloud computing is the most prominent computing paradigm in the present era of
information technology. However, data centers needed for hosting cloud services demand …