Volume 6, Number 4, October - December 2018
Using Proactive Fault-Tolerance Approach to Enhance Cloud Service Reliability.

Jialei Liu Shangguang Wang Ao Zhou Sathish A. P. Kumar Fangchun Yang Rajkumar Buyya

SVDC: A Highly Scalable Isolation Architecture for Virtualized Layer-2 Data Center Networks.

Congjie Chen Dan Li Jun Li Konglin Zhu

Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Stragglers.

Farshid Farhat Diman Zad Tootaghaj Yuxiong He Anand Sivasubramaniam Mahmut T. Kandemir Chita R. Das

Securing Services in Networked Cloud Infrastructures.

Vijay Varadharajan Udaya Kiran Tupakula

Secure Data Sharing in Cloud Computing Using Revocable-Storage Identity-Based Encryption.

Jianghong Wei Wenfen Liu Xuexian Hu

Price-Sensitivity Aware Load Balancing for Geographically Distributed Internet Data Centers in Smart Grid Environment.

Liang Yu Tao Jiang Yulong Zou

PHE: An Efficient Traitor Tracing and Revocation for Encrypted File Syncing-and-Sharing in Cloud.

Yan Zhu Guohua Gan Ruiqi Guo Dijiang Huang

Optimizing Live Migration of Multiple Virtual Machines.

Walter Cerroni Flavio Esposito

Novel Scheduling Algorithms for Efficient Deployment of MapReduce Applications in Heterogeneous Computing Environments.

Sun-Yuan Hsieh Chi-Ting Chen Chi-Hao Chen Tzu-Hsiang Yen Hung-Chang Hsiao Rajkumar Buyya

Modeling Service Applications for Optimal Parallel Embedding.

Changcheng Huang Jiafeng Zhu

Middleware-Oriented Deployment Automation for Cloud Applications.

Johannes Wettinger Vasilios Andrikopoulos Frank Leymann Steve Strauch

Identity-Based Encryption with Cloud Revocation Authority and Its Applications.

Yuh-Min Tseng Tung-Tso Tsai Sen-Shan Huang Chung-Peng Huang

H2Hadoop: Improving Hadoop Performance Using the Metadata of Related Jobs.

Hamoud Alshammari Jeongkyu Lee Hassan Bajwa

G-SD: Achieving Fast Reverse Lookup using Scalable Declustering Layout in Large-Scale File Systems.

Jun Wang Dezhi Han Junyao Zhang Jiangling Yin

Feedback Autonomic Provisioning for Guaranteeing Performance in MapReduce Systems.

Mihaly Berekmeri Damián Serrano Sara Bouchenak Nicolas Marchand Bogdan Robu

Effective Modeling Approach for IaaS Data Center Performance Analysis under Heterogeneous Workload.

Xiaolin Chang Ruofan Xia Jogesh K. Muppala Kishor S. Trivedi Jiqiang Liu

Business-Driven Service Placement for Highly Dynamic and Distributed Cloud Systems.

Mauro Tortonesi Luca Foschini

Bandwidth Provisioning for Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud: Strategy and Application.

Uttam Mandal Pulak Chowdhury Massimo Tornatore Charles U. Martel Biswanath Mukherjee

An Energy-Efficient VM Prediction and Migration Framework for Overcommitted Clouds.

Mehiar Dabbagh Bechir Hamdaoui Mohsen Guizani Ammar Rayes

A Protocol for Preventing Insider Attacks in Untrusted Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds.

Imran Khan Zahid Anwar Behzad Bordbar Eike Ritter Habib-ur Rehman

A Forecasting Methodology for Workload Forecasting in Cloud Systems.

Francisco Javier Baldan Sergio Ramírez-Gallego Christoph Bergmeir Francisco Herrera José Manuel Benítez

A Dynamical and Load-Balanced Flow Scheduling Approach for Big Data Centers in Clouds.

Feilong Tang Laurence T. Yang Can Tang Jie Li Minyi Guo

A Combinatorial Auction Mechanism for Multiple Resource Procurement in Cloud Computing.

Vinu Prasad G Abhinandan S. Prasad Shrisha Rao


Volume 6, Number 3, July - September 2018
Trust is Good, Control is Better: Creating Secure Clouds by Continuous Auditing.

Sebastian Lins Stephan Schneider Ali Sunyaev

Theoretical Results of QoS-Guaranteed Resource Scaling for Cloud-Based MapReduce.

Xiaoyong Xu Maolin Tang Yu-Chu Tian

Secure Tensor Decomposition Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme.

Liwei Kuang Laurence T. Yang Jun Feng Mianxiong Dong

Parallel Semi-Supervised Multi-Ant Colonies Clustering Ensemble Based on MapReduce Methodology.

Yan Yang Fei Teng Tianrui Li Hao Wang Hongjun Wang Qi Zhang

On the Performance Impact of Data Access Middleware for NoSQL Data Stores A Study of the Trade-Off between Performance and Migration Cost.

Ansar Rafique Dimitri Van Landuyt Bert Lagaisse Wouter Joosen

On the Carbon Footprint Optimization in an InterCloud Environment.

Valerie Danielle Justafort Ronald Beaubrun Samuel Pierre

On Optimal and Fair Service Allocation in Mobile Cloud Computing.

M. Reza Rahimi Nalini Venkatasubramanian Sharad Mehrotra Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Monitoring Elastically Adaptive Multi-Cloud Services.

Demetris Trihinas George Pallis Marios D. Dikaiakos

Modular AWG-based Interconnection for Large-Scale Data Center Networks.

Tong Ye Tony Tong Lee Mao Ge Weisheng Hu

Model-Driven Development Patterns for Mobile Services in Cloud of Things.

Hongming Cai Yizhi Gu Athanasios V. Vasilakos Boyi Xu Jun Zhou

Joint Energy Minimization and Resource Allocation in C-RAN with Mobile Cloud.

Kezhi Wang Kun Yang Chathura M. Sarathchandra Magurawalage

Identity-Based Private Matching over Outsourced Encrypted Datasets.

Shuo Qiu Jiqiang Liu Yanfeng Shi Ming Li Wei Wang

Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Diversity for Water Saving in Geo-Distributed Data Centers.

Mohammad A. Islam Kishwar Ahmed Hong Xu Nguyen H. Tran Gang Quan Shaolei Ren

EPAS: A Sampling Based Similarity Identification Algorithm for the Cloud.

Yongtao Zhou Yuhui Deng Junjie Xie Laurence T. Yang

Energy-Efficient Task Execution for Application as a General Topology in Mobile Cloud Computing.

Weiwen Zhang Yonggang Wen

Efficient Embedding of Virtual Networks to Distributed Clouds via Exploring Periodic Resource Demands.

Zichuan Xu Weifa Liang Qiufen Xia

Dynamic and Public Auditing with Fair Arbitration for Cloud Data.

Hao Jin Hong Jiang Ke Zhou

Dependency-Aware Data Locality for MapReduce.

Xiaoqiang Ma Xiaoyi Fan Jiangchuan Liu Dan Li

Collective Energy-Efficiency Approach to Data Center Networks Planning.

Ting Yang Young Choon Lee Albert Y. Zomaya

ADON: Application-Driven Overlay Network-as-a-Service for Data-Intensive Science.

Ronny Bazan Antequera Prasad Calyam Saptarshi Debroy Longhai Cui Sripriya Seetharam Matthew Dickinson Trupti Joshi Dong Xu Tsegereda Beyene

Ad-Hoc Cloudlet Based Cooperative Cloud Gaming.

Fangyuan Chi Xiaofei Wang Wei Cai Victor C. M. Leung

Achieving Energy Efficiency in Data Centers Using an Artificial Intelligence Abstraction Model.

Ting Wang Yu Xia Jogesh K. Muppala Mounir Hamdi

A Novel Statistical Cost Model and an Algorithm for Efficient Application Offloading to Clouds.

Jose Barrameda Nancy Samaan


Volume 6, Number 2, April - June 2018
RASP-Boost: Confidential Boosting-Model Learning with Perturbed Data in the Cloud.

Keke Chen Shumin Guo

Fast and Reliable Restoration Method of Virtual Resources on OpenStack.

Yoji Yamato Yukihisa Nishizawa Shinji Nagao Kenichi Sato

Efficient Skew Handling for Outer Joins in a Cloud Computing Environment.

Long Cheng Spyros Kotoulas

Converged Network-Cloud Service Composition with End-to-End Performance Guarantee.

Jun Huang Qiang Duan Song Guo Yuhong Yan Shui Yu

Cloud-Based Fine-Grained Health Information Access Control Framework for LightweightIoT Devices with Dynamic Auditing andAttribute Revocation.

Lo-Yao Yeh Pei-Yu Chiang Yi-Lang Tsai Jiun-Long Huang

An Algorithm for Finding the Minimum Cost of Storing and Regenerating Datasets in Multiple Clouds.

Dong Yuan Lizhen Cui Wenhao Li Xiao Liu Yun Yang

A Holistic Approach for Distributed Dimensionality Reduction of Big Data.

Liwei Kuang Laurence T. Yang Jinjun Chen Fei Hao Changqing Luo

Three-Server Swapping for Access Confidentiality.

Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Sara Foresti Stefano Paraboschi Gerardo Pelosi Pierangela Samarati

Architectural Protection of Application Privacy against Software and Physical Attacks in Untrusted Cloud Environment.

Lei Xu Jong-Hyuk Lee Seung Hun Kim Qingji Zheng Shouhuai Xu Taeweon Suh Won Woo Ro Weidong Shi

CSR: Classified Source Routing in Distributed Networks.

Yiming Zhang Dongsheng Li Zhigang Sun Feng Zhao Jinshu Su Xicheng Lu

Space-Efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing Using Polynomial Interpolation.

Massimo Cafaro Piergiuseppe Pellè

Chaotic Searchable Encryption for Mobile Cloud Storage.

Abir Awad Adrian Matthews Yuansong Qiao Brian Lee

Probabilistic Optimization of Resource Distribution and Encryption for Data Storage in the Cloud.

José-Marcio Luna Chaouki T. Abdallah Gregory L. Heileman

Audit-Free Cloud Storage via Deniable Attribute-Based Encryption.

Po-Wen Chi Chin-Laung Lei

Statistical Learning for Anomaly Detection in Cloud Server Systems: A Multi-Order Markov Chain Framework.

Wenyao Sha Yongxin Zhu Min Chen Tian Huang

Assurance of Security and Privacy Requirements for Cloud Deployment Models.

Shareeful Islam Moussa Ouedraogo Christos Kalloniatis Haralambos Mouratidis Stefanos Gritzalis

CypherDB: A Novel Architecture for Outsourcing Secure Database Processing.

Bony H. K. Chen Paul Y. S. Cheung Peter Y. K. Cheung Yu-Kwong Kwok

A Classification and Comparison Framework for Cloud Service Brokerage Architectures.

Frank Fowley Claus Pahl Pooyan Jamshidi Daren Fang Xiaodong Liu

A Lightweight Secure Data Sharing Scheme for Mobile Cloud Computing.

Ruixuan Li Chenglin Shen Heng He Xiwu Gu Zhiyong Xu Cheng-Zhong Xu

Model-Based Thermal Anomaly Detection in Cloud Datacenters Using Thermal Imaging.

Eun Kyung Lee Hariharasudhan Viswanathan Dario Pompili

Towards Privacy Preserving Publishing of Set-Valued Data on Hybrid Cloud.

Hongli Zhang Zhigang Zhou Lin Ye Xiaojiang Du

DROPS: Division and Replication of Data in Cloud for Optimal Performance and Security.

Mazhar Ali Kashif Bilal Samee U. Khan Bharadwaj Veeravalli Keqin Li Albert Y. Zomaya

Guest Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue on Security and Privacy on Clouds.

Meikang Qiu Sun-Yuan Kung


Volume 6, Number 1, January - March 2018
Translating Algorithms to Handle Fully Homomorphic Encrypted Data on the Cloud.

Ayantika Chatterjee Indranil Sengupta

Towards Privacy-Preserving Content-Based Image Retrieval in Cloud Computing.

Zhihua Xia Yi Zhu Xingming Sun Zhan Qin Kui Ren

Towards Efficient Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Workloads in IaaS Clouds.

Lei Wei Chuan Heng Foh Bingsheng He Jianfei Cai

Supporting Data-Intensive Workflows in Software-Defined Federated Multi-Clouds.

Javier Diaz Montes Manuel Diaz-Granados Mengsong Zou Shu Tao Manish Parashar

StarCube: An On-Demand and Cost-Effective Framework for Cloud Data Center Networks with Performance Guarantee.

Linjiun Tsai Wanjiun Liao

SimGrid VM: Virtual Machine Support for a Simulation Framework of Distributed Systems.

Takahiro Hirofuchi Adrien Lebre Laurent Pouilloux

Shadow-Routing Based Dynamic Algorithms for Virtual Machine Placement in a Network Cloud.

Yang Guo Alexander L. Stolyar Anwar Walid

Scatter-Gather Live Migration of Virtual Machines.

Umesh Deshpande Danny Chan Steven Chan Kartik Gopalan Nilton Bila

Scalable pCT Image Reconstruction Delivered as a Cloud Service.

Ryan Chard Ravi K. Madduri Nicholas T. Karonis Kyle Chard Kirk L. Duffin Caesar E. Ordoñez Thomas D. Uram Justin Fleischauer Ian T. Foster Michael E. Papka John Winans

Risk-Aware Management of Virtual Resources in Access Controlled Service-Oriented Cloud Datacenters.

Abdulrahman Almutairi Muhammad Ihsanulhaq Sarfraz Arif Ghafoor

Optimizing for Tail Sojourn Times of Cloud Clusters.

Mathias Björkqvist Natarajan Gautam Robert Birke Lydia Y. Chen Walter Binder

Modelling and Analysis of A Novel Deadline-Aware Scheduling Scheme for Cloud Computing Data Centers.

Maurice Khabbaz Chadi M. Assi

MapReduce Scheduling for Deadline-Constrained Jobs in Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Systems.

Chien-Hung Chen Jenn-Wei Lin Sy-Yen Kuo

Energy Efficient Cooperative Computing in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks.

Zhengguo Sheng Chinmaya Mahapatra Victor C. M. Leung Min Chen Pratap Kumar Sahu

Economic and Energy Considerations for Resource Augmentation in Mobile Cloud Computing.

Manjinder Nir Ashraf Matrawy Marc St-Hilaire

Data Transfer Scheduling for Maximizing Throughput of Big-Data Computing in Cloud Systems.

Ruitao Xie Xiaohua Jia

Catch You if You Misbehave: Ranked Keyword Search Results Verification in Cloud Computing.

Wei Zhang Yaping Lin Qi Gu

ATME: Accurate Traffic Matrix Estimation in Both Public and Private Datacenter Networks.

Zhiming Hu Yan Qiao Jun Luo

Assessment of the Suitability of Fog Computing in the Context of Internet of Things.

Subhadeep Sarkar Subarna Chatterjee Sudip Misra

Adaptive Dispatching of Tasks in the Cloud.

Lan Wang Erol Gelenbe

A Shapley-Value Mechanism for Bandwidth On Demand between Datacenters.

Weijie Shi Chuan Wu Zongpeng Li

A Cost-Effective Deadline-Constrained Dynamic Scheduling Algorithm for Scientific Workflows in a Cloud Environment.

Jyoti Sahni Deo Prakash Vidyarthi

TCC: State of the Transactions.

Hui Lei