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Secure VM management with strong user binding in semi-trusted clouds

In Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds, remote users access provided virtual machines (VMs) via the management server. The management server is managed by cloud operators, but not all the cloud operators...

Authors: Keisuke Inokuchi and Kenichi Kourai

A dockerized framework for hierarchical frequency-based document clustering on cloud computing infrastructures

Scalable big data analysis frameworks are of paramount importance in the modern web society, which is characterized by a huge number of resources, including electronic text documents. Document clustering is an...

Authors: Maria Th. Kotouza, Fotis E. Psomopoulos and Pericles A. Mitkas

Cloudy transaction costs: a dive into cloud computing economics

Looking merely from the neoclassical perspective, cloud computing is price effective. However, according to institutional and transaction cost economics, cloud customers should estimate other costs beyond the ...

Authors: Rasha Makhlouf

Publicly verifiable and efficiency/security-adjustable outsourcing scheme for solving large-scale modular system of linear equations

Authors: Panpan Meng, Chengliang Tian and Xiangguo Cheng

Security governance as a service on the cloud

Small companies need help to detect and to respond to increasing security related threats. This paper presents a cloud service that automates processes that make checks for such threats, implement mitigating p...

Authors: Ciarán Bryce

Load balancing in cloud computing – A hierarchical taxonomical classification

Load unbalancing problem is a multi-variant, multi-constraint problem that degrades performance and efficiency of computing resources. Load balancing techniques cater the solution for load unbalancing situatio...

Authors: Shahbaz Afzal and G. Kavitha

Reliability and capability based computation offloading strategy for vehicular ad hoc clouds

In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), with the increasing demand for intelligent technologies such as driverless driving, more and more in-vehicle applications have been put into autonomous driving. For the compu...

Authors: Bo Li, Ziyi Peng, Peng Hou, Min He, Marco Anisetti and Gwanggil Jeon

The cloud application modelling and execution language

Cloud computing offers a flexible pay-as-you-go model for provisioning application resources, which enables applications to scale on-demand based on the current workload. In many cases, though, users face the ...

Authors: Achilleas P. Achilleos, Kyriakos Kritikos, Alessandro Rossini, Georgia M. Kapitsaki, Jörg Domaschka, Michal Orzechowski, Daniel Seybold, Frank Griesinger, Nikolay Nikolov, Daniel Romero and George A. Papadopoulos

Secure end-to-end processing of smart metering data

Cloud computing considerably reduces the costs of deploying applications through on-demand, automated and fine-granular allocation of resources. Even in private settings, cloud computing platforms enable agile...

Authors: Andrey Brito, Christof Fetzer, Stefan Köpsell, Peter Pietzuch, Marcelo Pasin, Pascal Felber, Keiko Fonseca, Marcelo Rosa, Luiz Gomes Jr, Rodrigo Riella, Charles Prado, Luiz F. Rust, Daniel E. Lucani, Márton Sipos, László Nagy and Marcell Fehér

Multi-cloud provisioning of business processes

The Cloud offers enhanced flexibility in the management of resources for any kind of application while it promises the reduction of its cost as well as its infinite scalability. In this way, due to these advan...

Authors: Kyriakos Kritikos, Chrysostomos Zeginis, Joaquin Iranzo, Roman Sosa Gonzalez, Daniel Seybold, Frank Griesinger and Jörg Domaschka

A Neuro-fuzzy approach for user behaviour classification and prediction

Big data and cloud computing technology appeared on the scene as new trends due to the rapid growth of social media usage over the last decade. Big data represent the immense volume of complex data that show m...

Authors: Atta-ur-Rahman, Sujata Dash, Ashish Kr. Luhach, Naveen Chilamkurti, Seungmin Baek and Yunyoung Nam

Strand: scalable trilateration with Node.js

This work reports on the development details and results of an experimental setup for the localization of the attendants of a music festival. The application had to be reporting in real-time the asymmetric cro...

Authors: Konstantinos Tserpes, Maria Pateraki and Iraklis Varlamis

An optimization approach to capacity evaluation and investment decision of hybrid cloud: a corporate customer’s perspective

While the rapid growth of cloud computing is driven by the surge of big data, the Internet of Things, and social media applications, an evaluation and investment decision for cloud computing has been challengi...

Authors: In Lee

Replaceability and negotiation in a cloud service ecosystem

Cloud federation is an aggregation of services from different providers in a single pool supporting interoperability and resource migration. In federation, Services are assigned to the consumer’s service acces...

Authors: Adrija Bhattacharya, Sankhayan Choudhury and Agostino Cortesi

Temperature and energy-aware consolidation algorithms in cloud computing

Cloud computing provides access to shared resources through Internet. It provides facilities such as broad access, scalability and cost savings for users. However, cloud data centers consume a significant amou...

Authors: Maede Yavari, Akbar Ghaffarpour Rahbar and Mohammad Hadi Fathi

Design, simulation and testing of a cloud platform for sharing digital fabrication resources for education

Cloud and IoT technologies have the potential to support applica- tions that are not strictly limited to technical fields. This paper shows how digital fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs) can leverage cloud te...

Authors: Gianluca Cornetta, Javier Mateos, Abdellah Touhafi and Gabriel-Miro Muntean

Experts reviews of a cloud forensic readiness framework for organizations

Cloud computing has drastically altered the ways in which it is possible to deliver information technologies (ITs) to consumers as a service. In addition, the concept has given rise to multiple benefits for co...

Authors: Ahmed Alenezi, Hany F. Atlam and Gary B. Wills

Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services

Performance and scalability testing and measurements of cloud-based software services are necessary for future optimizations and growth of cloud computing. Scalability, elasticity, and efficiency are interrela...

Authors: Amro Al-Said Ahmad and Peter Andras

Online architecture for predicting live video transcoding resources

End users stream video increasingly from live broadcasters (via YouTube Live, Twitch etc.). Adaptive live video streaming is realised by transcoding different representations of the original video content. Man...

Authors: Pekka Pääkkönen, Antti Heikkinen and Tommi Aihkisalo

Multi-Dimensional Regression Host Utilization algorithm (MDRHU) for Host Overload Detection in Cloud Computing

The use of cloud computing data centers is growing rapidly to meet the tremendous increase in demand for high-performance computing (HPC), storage and networking resources for business and scientific applicati...

Authors: Ali A. El-Moursy, Amany Abdelsamea, Rukshanda Kamran and Mohamed Saad

A placement architecture for a container as a service (CaaS) in a cloud environment

Unlike a traditional virtual machine (VM), a container is an emerging lightweight virtualization technology that operates at the operating system level to encapsulate a task and its library dependencies for ex...

Authors: Mohamed K. Hussein, Mohamed H. Mousa and Mohamed A. Alqarni

Building consumer trust in the cloud: an experimental analysis of the cloud trust label approach

The lack of transparency surrounding cloud service provision makes it difficult for consumers to make knowledge based purchasing decisions. As a result, consumer trust has become a major impediment to cloud co...

Authors: Lisa van der Werff, Grace Fox, Ieva Masevic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, John P. Morrison and Theo Lynn

Efficient resource provisioning for elastic Cloud services based on machine learning techniques

Automated resource provisioning techniques enable the implementation of elastic services, by adapting the available resources to the service demand. This is essential for reducing power consumption and guarant...

Authors: Rafael Moreno-Vozmediano, Rubén S. Montero, Eduardo Huedo and Ignacio M. Llorente

A view of programming scalable data analysis: from clouds to exascale

Scalability is a key feature for big data analysis and machine learning frameworks and for applications that need to analyze very large and real-time data available from data repositories, social media, sensor...

Authors: Domenico Talia

Adaptive deduplication of virtual machine images using AKKA stream to accelerate live migration process in cloud environment

Cloud Computing is a paradigm which provides resources to users from its pool based on demand to satisfy their requirements. During this process, many servers are overloaded and underloaded in the cloud enviro...

Authors: Naga Malleswari TYJ and Vadivu G

Energy-aware VM placement algorithms for the OpenStack Neat consolidation framework

One of the main challenges in cloud computing is an enormous amount of energy consumed in data-centers. Several researches have been conducted on Virtual Machine(VM) consolidation to optimize energy consumptio...

Authors: Fikru Feleke Moges and Surafel Lemma Abebe

Optimal deployment of components of cloud-hosted application for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation

One of the challenges of deploying multitenant cloud-hosted services that are designed to use (or be integrated with) several components is how to implement the required degree of isolation between the compone...

Authors: Laud Charles Ochei, Andrei Petrovski and Julian M. Bass

Degrees of tenant isolation for cloud-hosted software services: a cross-case analysis

A challenge, when implementing multi-tenancy in a cloud-hosted software service, is how to ensure that the performance and resource consumption of one tenant does not adversely affect other tenants. Software d...

Authors: Laud Charles Ochei, Julian M. Bass and Andrei Petrovski

Intrusion detection systems for IoT-based smart environments: a survey

One of the goals of smart environments is to improve the quality of human life in terms of comfort and efficiency. The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has recently evolved into a technology for building smar...

Authors: Mohamed Faisal Elrawy, Ali Ismail Awad and Hesham F. A. Hamed

Using genetic algorithms to find optimal solution in a search space for a cloud predictive cost-driven decision maker

In a cloud computing environment there are two types of cost associated with the auto-scaling systems: resource cost and Service Level Agreement (SLA) violation cost. The goal of an auto-scaling system is to f...

Authors: Ali Yadav Nikravesh, Samuel A. Ajila and Chung-Horng Lung

Correction to: Energy efficient temporal load aware resource allocation in cloud computing datacenters

Upon publication of the original article [1], it was noticed that the authors Mustafa Mehmet-Ali and Dondgyu Qiu were missing.

Authors: Shahin Vakilinia, Mustafa Mehmet-Ali and Dondgyu Qiu

LogDrive: a proactive data collection and analysis framework for time-traveling forensic investigation in IaaS cloud environments

This paper presents the LogDrive framework for mitigating the following problems of storage forensics in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud environments: volatility, increasing volume of forensic data, a...

Authors: Manabu Hirano, Natsuki Tsuzuki, Seishiro Ikeda and Ryotaro Kobayashi

A real-world inspired multi-strategy based negotiating system for cloud service market

Designing negotiator agents who adopt real-world inspired negotiation strategies in front of different types of negotiation scenario increases the chance of having better utility and success rate in negotiatio...

Authors: Sepideh Adabi, Mozhgan Mosadeghi and Samaneh Yazdani

Analyzing the availability and performance of an e-health system integrated with edge, fog and cloud infrastructures

The Internet of Things has the potential of transforming health systems through the collection and analysis of patient physiological data via wearable devices and sensor networks. Such systems can offer assist...

Authors: Guto Leoni Santos, Patricia Takako Endo, Matheus Felipe Ferreira da Silva Lisboa Tigre, Leylane Graziele Ferreira da Silva, Djamel Sadok, Judith Kelner and Theo Lynn

QoS-based ranking and selection of SaaS applications using heterogeneous similarity metrics

The plethora of cloud application services (Apps) in the cloud business apps e-marketplace often leads to service choice overload. Meanwhile, existing SaaS e-marketplaces employ keyword-based inputs that do no...

Authors: Azubuike Ezenwoke, Olawande Daramola and Matthew Adigun

Modelling trust and risk for cloud services

A joint trust and risk model is introduced for federated cloud services. The model is based on cloud service providers’ performance history. It addresses provider and consumer concerns by relying on trusted th...

Authors: Erdal Cayirci and Anderson Santana de Oliveira

Performance of integrated workload scheduling and pre-fetching in multimedia mobile cloud computing

This paper focuses on an integrated workload scheduling and pre-fetching model in a multimedia mobile cloud computing environment to enhance the performance of response time and reduce the cost to process mult...

Authors: Kaveh Khorramnejad, Lilatul Ferdouse, Ling Guan and Alagan Anpalagan

A hybrid approach to automatic IaaS service selection

Cloud computing provides on-demand resources and removes the boundaries of resources’ physical locations. By providing virtualized computing resources in an elastic manner over the internet, IaaS providers all...

Authors: Sima Soltani, Patrick Martin and Khalid Elgazzar

Cloud application deployment with transient failure recovery

Application deployment is a crucial operation for modern cloud providers. The ability to dynamically allocate resources and deploy a new application instance based on a user-provided description in a fully aut...

Authors: Ioannis Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Konstantinou, Dimitrios Tsoumakos and Nectarios Koziris

Proactive dynamic virtual-machine consolidation for energy conservation in cloud data centres

Data center power consumption is among the largest commodity expenditures for many organizations. Reduction of power used in cloud data centres with heterogeneous physical resources can be achieved through Vir...

Authors: Salam Ismaeel, Raed Karim and Ali Miri

An SVM-based framework for detecting DoS attacks in virtualized clouds under changing environment

Cloud Computing enables providers to rent out space on their virtual and physical infrastructures. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks threaten the ability of the cloud to respond to clients requests, which result...

Authors: Adel Abusitta, Martine Bellaiche and Michel Dagenais

Can cloudlet coordination support cloud computing infrastructure?

The popularity of mobile applications on smartphones requires mobile devices to perform high-performing processing tasks. The computational resources of these devices are limited due to memory, battery life, h...

Authors: Abdullah Alsaleh

Decision making in cloud environments: an approach based on multiple-criteria decision analysis and stochastic models

Cloud computing is a paradigm that provides services through the Internet. The paradigm has been influenced by previously available technologies (for example cluster, peer-to-peer, and grid computing) and has ...

Authors: Julian Araujo, Paulo Maciel, Ermeson Andrade, Gustavo Callou, Vandi Alves and Paulo Cunha

Evaluating cloud database migration options using workload models

A key challenge in porting enterprise software systems to the cloud is the migration of their database. Choosing a cloud provider and service option (e.g., a database-as-a-service or a manually configured set ...

Authors: Martyn Ellison, Radu Calinescu and Richard F. Paige

Current cloud challenges in Germany: the perspective of cloud service providers

Cloud computing has a significant impact on information and communication technology (ICT) and is one of the most important technological drivers of the digitalization of enterprises. However, due to the incre...

Authors: Raoul Hentschel, Christian Leyh and Anne Petznick

Task scheduling and resource allocation in cloud computing using a heuristic approach

Cloud computing is required by modern technology. Task scheduling and resource allocation are important aspects of cloud computing. This paper proposes a heuristic approach that combines the modified analytic ...

Authors: Mahendra Bhatu Gawali and Subhash K. Shinde

Fault tolerant software systems using software configurations for cloud computing

Customizable software systems consist of a large number of different, critical, non-critical and interdependent configurations. Reliability and performance of configurable system depend on successful completio...

Authors: Mylara Reddy Chinnaiah and Nalini Niranjan

Energy efficient temporal load aware resource allocation in cloud computing datacenters

Cloud computing datacenters consume huge amounts of energy, which has high cost and large environmental impact. There has been significant amount of research on dynamic power management, which shuts down unuti...

Authors: Shahin Vakilinia

CFaaS: bilaterally agreed evidence collection

A common cloud forensic model proposed by researchers is ‘Cloud-Forensic-as-a-Service’ where consumers have to access it as a service to collect forensic data from cloud environments. The ‘Cloud-Forensic-as-a-...

Authors: Ahmed Nour Moussa, Norafida Ithnin and Anazida Zainal

Landmark-based data location verification in the cloud: review of approaches and challenges

Data storage on the cloud is growing every day and many companies, administrations, and individuals are now outsourcing storage of their data to large-scale Cloud Service Providers (CSP). However, because of t...

Authors: Malik Irain, Jacques Jorda and Zoubir Mammeri