Volume 8, Number 4, October - December 2020
Comments on "Secure Data Sharing in Cloud Computing Using Revocable-Storage Identity-Based Encryption".

Kwangsu Lee

On the Privacy of Matrix Masking-Based Verifiable (Outsourced) Computation.

Liang Zhao Liqun Chen

Stochastic Workload Scheduling for Uncoordinated Datacenter Clouds with Multiple QoS Constraints.

Yunliang Chen Lizhe Wang Xiaodao Chen Rajiv Ranjan Albert Y. Zomaya Yuchen Zhou Shiyan Hu

Privacy Protection and Intrusion Avoidance for Cloudlet-Based Medical Data Sharing.

Min Chen Yongfeng Qian Jing Chen Kai Hwang Shiwen Mao Long Hu

Multimedia Processing Pricing Strategy in GPU-Accelerated Cloud Computing.

He Li Kaoru Ota Mianxiong Dong Athanasios V. Vasilakos Koji Nagano

Integrating Mobile Display Energy Saving into Cloud-Based Video Streaming via Rate-Distortion-Display Energy Profiling.

Qian Liu Zhisheng Yan Chang Wen Chen

Hybrid Tree-Rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission.

Thawatchai Chomsiri Xiangjian He Priyadarsi Nanda Zhiyuan Tan

Quantitative Fault-Tolerance for Reliable Workflows on Heterogeneous IaaS Clouds.

Guoqi Xie Gang Zeng Renfa Li Keqin Li

Cost-Aware Multimedia Data Allocation for Heterogeneous Memory Using Genetic Algorithm in Cloud Computing.

Keke Gai Longfei Qiu Hui Zhao Meikang Qiu

Boafft: Distributed Deduplication for Big Data Storage in the Cloud.

Shengmei Luo Guangyan Zhang Chengwen Wu Samee U. Khan Keqin Li

Bandwidth On-Demand for Multimedia Big Data Transfer Across Geo-Distributed Cloud Data Centers.

Abdulsalam Yassine Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini Shervin Shirmohammadi

An Ancillary Services Model for Data Centers and Power Systems.

Sahibzada Muhammad Ali Muhammad Jawad Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan Kashif Bilal Jacob Glower Scott C. Smith Samee U. Khan Keqin Li Albert Y. Zomaya

Adaptive Computing-Plus-Communication Optimization Framework for Multimedia Processing in Cloud Systems.

Mohammad Shojafar Claudia Canali Riccardo Lancellotti Jemal H. Abawajy

A Data Skew Oriented Reduce Placement Algorithm Based on Sampling.

Zhuo Tang Wen Ma Kenli Li Keqin Li

Quantitative Modeling and Analytical Calculation of Elasticity in Cloud Computing.

Keqin Li

Towards Network-Aware Service Composition in the Cloud.

Shangguang Wang Ao Zhou Fangchun Yang Rong N. Chang

Trustworthy Enhancement for Cloud Proxy based on Autonomic Computing.

Hui He Weizhe Zhang Chuanyi Liu Honglei Sun

Dynamically Partitioning Workflow over Federated Clouds for Optimising the Monetary Cost and Handling Run-Time Failures.

Zhenyu Wen Rawaa Qasha Zequn Li Rajiv Ranjan Paul Watson Alexander B. Romanovsky

Performance-Based Pricing in Multi-Core Geo-Distributed Cloud Computing.

Drazen Lucanin Ilia Pietri Simon Holmbacka Ivona Brandic Johan Lilius Rizos Sakellariou

DSARP: Dependable Scheduling with Active Replica Placement for Workflow Applications in Cloud Computing.

Ming Tao Kaoru Ota Mianxiong Dong

Online Inter-Datacenter Service Migrations.

Nikos Tziritas Samee U. Khan Thanasis Loukopoulos Spyros Lalis Cheng-Zhong Xu Keqin Li Albert Y. Zomaya

STAR: SLA-aware Autonomic Management of Cloud Resources.

Sukhpal Singh Inderveer Chana Rajkumar Buyya

A Reinforcement Learning-Based Mixed Job Scheduler Scheme for Grid or IaaS Cloud.

Delong Cui Zhiping Peng Jianbin Xiong Bo Xu Weiwei Lin

Towards Pricing for Sensor-Cloud.

Chunsheng Zhu Xiuhua Li Victor C. M. Leung Laurence T. Yang Edith Cheuk-Han Ngai Lei Shu

Game Theoretical Analysis on Acceptance of a Cloud Data Access Control System Based on Reputation.

Lijun Gao Zheng Yan Laurence T. Yang

Link-Aware Virtual Machine Placement for Cloud Services based on Service-Oriented Architecture.

Fan-Hsun Tseng Yong Ming Jheng Li-Der Chou Han-Chieh Chao Victor C. M. Leung

Optimizing Information Leakage in Multicloud Storage Services.

Hao Zhuang Rameez Rahman Pan Hui Karl Aberer

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Advances of Utility and Cloud Computing Technologies and Services.

Ching-Hsien Hsu Manish Parashar Omer F. Rana


Volume 8, Number 3, July - September 2020
VMGuard: A VMI-Based Security Architecture for Intrusion Detection in Cloud Environment.

Preeti Mishra Vijay Varadharajan Emmanuel S. Pilli Udaya Kiran Tupakula

virtFlow: Guest Independent Execution Flow Analysis Across Virtualized Environments.

Hani Nemati Michel Dagenais

Towards Security-Based Formation of Cloud Federations: A Game Theoretical Approach.

Talal Halabi Martine Bellaïche

RRect: A Novel Server-Centric Data Center Network with High Power Efficiency and Availability.

Zhenhua Li Yuanyuan Yang

Revenue Maximization for Dynamic Expansion of Geo-Distributed Cloud Data Centers.

Hou Deng Liusheng Huang Hongli Xu Xiangyan Liu Pengzhan Wang Xianjin Fang

Online VM Auto-Scaling Algorithms for Application Hosting in a Cloud.

Yang Guo Alexander L. Stolyar Anwar Walid

On the Feasibility of Using Current Data Centre Infrastructure for Latency-Sensitive Applications.

David Griffin Truong Khoa Phan Elisa Maini Miguel Rio Pieter Simoens

Intelligent Health Vessel ABC-DE: An Electrocardiogram Cloud Computing Service.

Linpeng Jin Jun Dong

From Byzantine Fault-Tolerance to Fault-Avoidance: An Architectural Transformation to Attack and Failure Resiliency.

Noor O. Ahmed Bharat K. Bhargava

Energy Efficient Scheduling of Servers with Multi-Sleep Modes for Cloud Data Center.

Chonglin Gu Zhenlong Li Hejiao Huang Xiaohua Jia

Efficient Traceable Authorization Search System for Secure Cloud Storage.

Yang Yang Ximeng Liu Xianghan Zheng Chunming Rong Wenzhong Guo

Efficient Regular Language Search for Secure Cloud Storage.

Yang Yang Xianghan Zheng Chunming Rong Wenzhong Guo

EDoS-ADS: An Enhanced Mitigation Technique Against Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) Attacks.

Ahmad Shawahna Marwan H. Abu-Amara Ashraf S. Hasan Mahmoud Yahya E. Osais

Distributed Resource Allocation for Data Center Networks: A Hierarchical Game Approach.

Huaqing Zhang Yong Xiao Shengrong Bu F. Richard Yu Dusit Niyato Zhu Han

Detecting Performance Anomalies in Cloud Platform Applications.

Hiranya Jayathilaka Chandra Krintz Rich Wolski

Adjusting Packet Size to Mitigate TCP Incast in Data Center Networks with COTS Switches.

Jiawei Huang Yi Huang Jianxin Wang Tian He

A Truthful $(1-\epsilon)$(1-ε)-Optimal Mechanism for On-Demand Cloud Resource Provisioning.

Xiaoxi Zhang Chuan Wu Zongpeng Li Francis C. M. Lau

A Tight Estimate of Job Completion Time in Vehicular Clouds.

Ryan Florin Puya Ghazizadeh Aida Ghazi Zadeh Ravi Mukkamala Stephan Olariu

A Robust Formulation for Efficient Application Offloading to Clouds.

Jose Barrameda Nancy Samaan

A Power-of-Two Choices Based Algorithm for Fog Computing.

Roberto Beraldi Hussein M. Alnuweiri Abderrahmen Mtibaa

A Planning Approach for Reassigning Virtual Machines in IaaS Clouds.

Yacine Laalaoui Jehad Al-Omari

A New Lightweight Symmetric Searchable Encryption Scheme for String Identification.

Indranil Ghosh Ray Yogachandran Rahulamathavan Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

A Key-Policy Attribute-Based Temporary Keyword Search scheme for Secure Cloud Storage.

Mohammad Hassan Ameri Mahshid Delavar Javad Mohajeri Mahmoud Salmasizadeh

A Distributed Auction-based Framework for Scalable IaaS Provisioning in Geo-Data Centers.

Khaled M. Metwally Abdallah Jarray Ahmed Karmouch


Volume 8, Number 2, April - June 2020
Locality-Aware Scheduling for Containers in Cloud Computing.

Dongfang Zhao Mohamed Mohamed Heiko Ludwig

QoS-Aware Cloudlet Load Balancing in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks.

Mike Jia Weifa Liang Zichuan Xu Meitian Huang Yu Ma

Privacy-Preserving Outsourced Support Vector Machine Design for Secure Drug Discovery.

Ximeng Liu Robert H. Deng Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo Yang Yang

Privacy Aware Data Deduplication for Side Channel in Cloud Storage.

Chia-Mu Yu Sarada Prasad Gochhayat Mauro Conti Chun-Shien Lu

Near-Optimal Deployment of Service Chains by Exploiting Correlations Between Network Functions.

Huawei Huang Peng Li Song Guo Weifa Liang Kun Wang

Energy-Efficient Decision Making for Mobile Cloud Offloading.

Huaming Wu Yi Sun Katinka Wolter

A Dynamic and Failure-Aware Task Scheduling Framework for Hadoop.

Mbarka Soualhia Foutse Khomh Sofiène Tahar

Wisdom as a Service for Mental Health Care.

Jianhui Chen Ningning Wang Yue Deng Han Zhong Jian Han Youjun Li Zhijiang Wan Taihei Kotake Dongsheng Wang Ning Zhong

Parallel RMCLP Classification Algorithm and Its Application on the Medical Data.

Zhiquan Qi Yingjie Tian Yong Shi Vassil N. Alexandrov

Splitting Large Medical Data Sets Based on Normal Distribution in Cloud Environment.

Hao Lan Zhang Yali Zhao Chaoyi Pang Jinyuan He

Efficiently Translating Complex SQL Query to MapReduce Jobflow on Cloud.

Zhiang Wu Aibo Song Jie Cao Junzhou Luo Lu Zhang

Cloud Colonography: Distributed Medical Testbed over Cloud.

Yuichi Motai Eric Henderson Nahian Alam Siddique Hiroyuki Yoshida

Achieving Secure and Efficient Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption over Medical Cloud Data.

Hongwei Li Yi Yang Yuanshun Dai Shui Yu Yong Xiang

A Clustering-Based Multi-Layer Distributed Ensemble for Neurological Diagnostics in Cloud Services.

Morshed U. Chowdhury Jemal H. Abawajy Andrei Kelarev Herbert F. Jelinek

Stochastic Load Balancing for Virtual Resource Management in Datacenters.

Lei Yu Liuhua Chen Zhipeng Cai Haiying Shen Yi Liang Yi Pan

Statistical Model Checking-Based Evaluation and Optimization for Cloud Workflow Resource Allocation.

Mingsong Chen Saijie Huang Xin Fu Xiao Liu Jifeng He

Segmented In-Advance Data Analytics for Fast Scientific Discovery.

Jialin Liu Yong Chen

Phase-Reconfigurable Shuffle Optimization for Hadoop MapReduce.

Jihe Wang Meikang Qiu Bing Guo Ziliang Zong

Microaggregation Sorting Framework for K-Anonymity Statistical Disclosure Control in Cloud Computing.

Md. Enamul Kabir Abdun Naser Mahmood Hua Wang Abdul K. Mustafa

Hybrid Consensus Pruning of Ensemble Classifiers for Big Data Malware Detection.

Jemal H. Abawajy Morshed U. Chowdhury Andrei Kelarev

Crowdsourcing Based Description of Urban Emergency Events Using Social Media Big Data.

Zheng Xu Yunhuai Liu Neil Y. Yen Lin Mei Xiangfeng Luo Xiao Wei Chuanping Hu

Cross-Cloud MapReduce for Big Data.

Peng Li Song Guo Shui Yu Weihua Zhuang

An Integration Framework on Cloud for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems Big Data.

Liwei Kuang Laurence T. Yang Yang Liao

A Data and Task Co-Scheduling Algorithm for Scientific Cloud Workflows.

Kefeng Deng Kaijun Ren Min Zhu Junqiang Song

A Context-Aware Service Evaluation Approach over Big Data for Cloud Applications.

Lianyong Qi Wanchun Dou Chunhua Hu Yuming Zhou Jiguo Yu

A 3D Image Quality Assessment Method Based on Vector Information and SVD of Quaternion Matrix under Cloud Computing Environment.

Xingang Liu Lan Zhang Kaixuan Lu

Editorial: A Message from the Incoming Editor-in-Chief.

Yuanyuan Yang


Volume 8, Number 1, January - March 2020
Toward Practical Privacy-Preserving Frequent Itemset Mining on Encrypted Cloud Data.

Shuo Qiu Boyang Wang Ming Li Jiqiang Liu Yanfeng Shi

TIMER-Cloud: Time-Sensitive VM Provisioning in Resource-Constrained Clouds.

Rehana Begam Wei Wang Dakai Zhu

Scheduling Live Migration of Virtual Machines.

Vincent Kherbache Eric Madelaine Fabien Hermenier

Providing Performance Guarantees for Cloud-Deployed Applications.

Anshul Gandhi Parijat Dube Alexei A. Karve Andrzej Kochut Li Zhang

Predicting Workflow Task Execution Time in the Cloud Using A Two-Stage Machine Learning Approach.

Thanh-Phuong Pham Juan José Durillo Thomas Fahringer

Predicted Affinity Based Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Computing Environments.

Xiong Fu Chen Zhou

Optimizing Timeliness and Cost in Geo-Distributed Streaming Analytics.

Benjamin Heintz Abhishek Chandra Ramesh K. Sitaraman

ODDS: Optimizing Data-Locality Access for Scientific Data Analysis.

Jun Wang Dezhi Han Jiangling Yin Xiaobo Zhou Changjun Jiang

How to Extract Image Features Based on Co-Occurrence Matrix Securely and Efficiently in Cloud Computing.

Yanli Ren Xinpeng Zhang Guorui Feng Zhenxing Qian Fengyong Li

Heterogeneous Job Allocation Scheduler for Hadoop MapReduce Using Dynamic Grouping Integrated Neighboring Search.

Chi-Ting Chen Ling-Ju Hung Sun-Yuan Hsieh Rajkumar Buyya Albert Y. Zomaya

Green Cloudlet Network: A Sustainable Platform for Mobile Cloud Computing.

Xiang Sun Nirwan Ansari

Google Users as Sequences: A Robust Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Study.

Omar Arif Abdul-Rahman Kento Aida

Fair Online Power Capping for Emergency Handling in Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Centers.

Qihang Sun Shaolei Ren Chuan Wu

Efficient Proofs of Retrievability with Public Verifiability for Dynamic Cloud Storage.

Binanda Sengupta Sushmita Ruj

Efficient Decentralized Attribute Based Access Control for Mobile Clouds.

Sourya Joyee De Sushmita Ruj

Disaster Recovery Layer for Distributed OpenStack Deployments.

Luis Tomás Panagiotis C. Kokkinos Vasilios Anagnostopoulos Oshrit Feder Dimosthenis Kyriazis Kalman Z. Meth Emmanouel A. Varvarigos Theodora A. Varvarigou

Design and Implementation of an Overlay File System for Cloud-Assisted Mobile Apps.

Nafize Rabbani Paiker Jianchen Shan Cristian Borcea Narain Gehani Reza Curtmola Xiaoning Ding

Delay-Sensitive Multicast in Inter-Datacenter WAN Using Compressive Latency Monitoring.

Tracy Yingying Cheng Xiaohua Jia

Bulk Savings for Bulk Transfers: Minimizing the Energy-Cost for Geo-Distributed Data Centers.

Xingjian Lu Fanxin Kong Xue Liu Jianwei Yin Qiao Xiang Huiqun Yu

Amazon EC2 Spot Price Prediction Using Regression Random Forests.

Khandelwal Veena Chaturvedi Anand Chandra Prakash Gupta

Achieving Multi-Hop PRE via Branching Program.

Zengpeng Li Chunguang Ma Ding Wang

A Scalable Attribute-Based Access Control Scheme with Flexible Delegation cum Sharing of Access Privileges for Cloud Storage.

Rohit Ahuja Sraban Kumar Mohanty

A Resource Usage Intensity Aware Load Balancing Method for Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud Datacenters.

Haiying Shen Liuhua Chen

A Carbon-Aware Incentive Mechanism for Greening Colocation Data Centers.

Mohammad A. Islam A. Hasan Mahmud Shaolei Ren Xiaorui Wang

Farewell Editorial.

Hui Lei