Volume 9, Number 4, October - December 2021
Comment on "Achieving Secure, Universal, and Fine-Grained Query Results Verification for Secure Search Scheme Over Encrypted Cloud Data".

Zhiguang Qin Yan Wu Hu Xiong

ViePEP-C: A Container-Based Elastic Process Platform.

Philipp Waibel Christoph Hochreiner Stefan Schulte Agnes Koschmider Jan Mendling

Two-Server Delegation of Computation on Label-Encrypted Data.

Xin Chen Liang Feng Zhang

TOFFEE: Task Offloading and Frequency Scaling for Energy Efficiency of Mobile Devices in Mobile Edge Computing.

Ying Chen Ning Zhang Yongchao Zhang Xin Chen Wen Wu Xuemin Sherman Shen

Survivable IaaS Management with SDN.

Heli Amarasinghe Abdallah Jarray Ahmed Karmouch

Secure Data Group Sharing and Conditional Dissemination with Multi-Owner in Cloud Computing.

Qinlong Huang Yixian Yang Wei Yue Yue He

Rerouting Strategies for Highly Available Virtual Network Functions.

Xiaojun Shang Zhenhua Li Yuanyuan Yang

Repair Strategies for Mobile Storage Systems.

Gokhan Calis Swetha Shivaramaiah Onur Ozan Koyluoglu Loukas Lazos

Profit Maximization of Big Data Jobs in Cloud Using Stochastic Optimization.

Seyed Morteza Nabavinejad Maziar Goudarzi

Model-Driven Elasticity Management with OCCI.

Yahya Al-Dhuraibi Faiez Zalila Nabil Djarallah Philippe Merle

Maximizing Throughput of Delay-Sensitive NFV-Enabled Request Admissions via Virtualized Network Function Placement.

Meitian Huang Weifa Liang Yu Ma Song Guo

Low Latency Big Data Processing without Prior Information.

Zhiming Hu Baochun Li Zheng Qin Rick Siow Mong Goh

Joint Management of Wireless and Computing Resources for Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Clouds.

Sladana Josilo György Dán

Incentive Facilitation for Peer Data Exchange in Crowdsensing.

Xiang Yan Fan Ye Yuanyuan Yang Dongge Wang Xiaotie Deng

Impact of Processing-Resource Sharing on the Placement of Chained Virtual Network Functions.

Marco Savi Massimo Tornatore Giacomo Verticale

FCTcon: Dynamic Control of Flow Completion Time in Data Center Networks for Power Efficiency.

Kuangyu Zheng Yunhao Bai Xiaorui Wang

FastTrack: Minimizing Stalls for CDN-Based Over-the-Top Video Streaming Systems.

Abubakr O. Al-Abbasi Vaneet Aggarwal Tian Lan Yu Xiang Moo-Ryong Ra Yih-Farn Chen

Dynamic Demand Prediction and Allocation in Cloud Service Brokerage.

Chenxi Qiu Haiying Shen

Delay and Cost Optimization in Computational Offloading Systems with Unknown Task Processing Times.

Jaya Prakash Champati Ben Liang

Data Integrity Auditing without Private Key Storage for Secure Cloud Storage.

Wenting Shen Jing Qin Jia Yu Rong Hao Jiankun Hu Jixin Ma

Cost-Effective Sharing of Streaming Dataflows for IoT Applications.

Shilpa Chaturvedi Sahil Tyagi Yogesh Simmhan

Classification-Based and Energy-Efficient Dynamic Task Scheduling Scheme for Virtualized Cloud Data Center.

Avinab Marahatta Sandeep Pirbhulal Fa Zhang Reza M. Parizi Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo Zhiyong Liu

CIPPPA: Conditional Identity Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing for Cloud-Based WBANs Against Malicious Auditors.

Xiaojun Zhang Jie Zhao Chunxiang Xu Hongwei Li Huaxiong Wang Yuan Zhang

Charon: A Secure Cloud-of-Clouds System for Storing and Sharing Big Data.

Ricardo Mendes Tiago Oliveira Vinicius Vielmo Cogo Nuno Neves Alysson Bessani

Blockchain-Assisted Public-Key Encryption with Keyword Search Against Keyword Guessing Attacks for Cloud Storage.

Yuan Zhang Chunxiang Xu Jianbing Ni Hongwei Li Xuemin Sherman Shen

Big-Sensor-Cloud Infrastructure: A Holistic Prototype for Provisioning Sensors-as-a-Service.

Subarna Chatterjee Arijit Roy Sanku Kumar Roy Sudip Misra Manmeet Singh Bhogal Rachit Daga

An Energy and Performance Aware Consolidation Technique for Containerized Datacenters.

Ayaz Ali Khan Muhammad Zakarya Rajkumar Buyya Rahim Khan Mukhtaj Khan Omer F. Rana

A User-Centric Data Protection Method for Cloud Storage Based on Invertible DWT.

Han Qiu Hassan N. Noura Meikang Qiu Zhong Ming Gérard Memmi

A Trust-Aware Mechanism for Cloud Federation Formation.

Lena Mashayekhy Mark M. Nejad Daniel Grosu

A Power Consumption Model for Cloud Servers Based on Elman Neural Network.

Wentai Wu Weiwei Lin Ligang He Guangxin Wu Ching-Hsien Hsu


Volume 9, Number 3, July - September 2021
VFTree: A Versatile Network Architecture for Data Centers.

Jun Duan Yuanyuan Yang

SLA-Based Profit Optimization Resource Scheduling for Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service Platforms in Cloud Computing Environments.

Yali Zhao Rodrigo N. Calheiros Graeme Gange James Bailey Richard O. Sinnott

Scheduling of Low Latency Services in Softwarized Networks.

Hyame Assem Alameddine Mosaddek Hossain Kamal Tushar Chadi Assi

Quantitative Analysis of Opacity in Cloud Computing Systems.

Wen Zeng Maciej Koutny

Outsourced Decentralized Multi-Authority Attribute Based Signature and Its Application in IoT.

Jiameng Sun Ye Su Jing Qin Jiankun Hu Jixin Ma

Online Multi-Workflow Scheduling under Uncertain Task Execution Time in IaaS Clouds.

Jiagang Liu Ju Ren Wei Dai Deyu Zhang Pude Zhou Yaoxue Zhang Geyong Min Noushin Najjari

On Bayesian Epistemology of Myerson Auction.

Xiaotie Deng Keyu Zhu

New Scheduling Algorithms for Improving Performance and Resource Utilization in Hadoop YARN Clusters.

Yi Yao Han Gao Jiayin Wang Bo Sheng Ningfang Mi

Mobility and Dependence-Aware QoS Monitoring in Mobile Edge Computing.

Pengcheng Zhang Yaling Zhang Hai Dong Huiying Jin

Low Latency and High Throughput Write-Ahead Logging Using CAPI-Flash.

Bedri Sendir Madhusudhan Govindaraju Rei Odaira H. Peter Hofstee

Key Management Scheme for Secure Channel Establishment in Fog Computing.

Lei Zhang

Investigating Machine Learning Algorithms for Modeling SSD I/O Performance for Container-Based Virtualization.

Jean-Emile Dartois Jalil Boukhobza Anas Knefati Olivier Barais

Hybrid Resource Provisioning for Cloud Workflows with Malleable and Rigid Tasks.

Long Chen Xiaoping Li Yucheng Guo Rubén Ruiz

Evaluating Distributed Computing Infrastructures: An Empirical Study Comparing Hadoop Deployments on Cloud and Local Systems.

Devipsita Bhattacharya Faiz Currim Sudha Ram

Enhancing Reliability and Availability through Redundancy in Vehicular Clouds.

Ryan Florin Aida Ghazizadeh Puya Ghazizadeh Stephan Olariu Dan C. Marinescu

Energy Efficient Dynamic Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing for Internet of Things.

Ying Chen Ning Zhang Yongchao Zhang Xin Chen Wen Wu Xuemin Shen

Empirical Investigation of Key Factors for SaaS Architecture.

Saiqa Aleem Faheem Ahmed Rabia Batool Asad Masood Khattak

Elephant Flow Detection and Load-Balanced Routing with Efficient Sampling and Classification.

Feilong Tang Heteng Zhang Laurence T. Yang Long Chen

Efficient and Green Embedding of Virtual Data Centers with Mixture of Unicast and Multicast Services.

Chao Guo Kai Xu Sanjay Kumar Bose Moshe Zukerman Gangxiang Shen

Dynamic Resource Management to Defend Against Advanced Persistent Threats in Fog Computing: A Game Theoretic Approach.

Shaohan Feng Zehui Xiong Dusit Niyato Ping Wang

Dynamic Cloud Resource Allocation Considering Demand Uncertainty.

Seyedehmehrnaz Mireslami Logan Rakai Mea Wang Behrouz Homayoun Far

Cost-Efficient Resource Provisioning for Dynamic Requests in Cloud Assisted Mobile Edge Computing.

Xiao Ma Shangguang Wang Shan Zhang Peng Yang Chuang Lin Xuemin Shen

Computing-Aware Base Station Sleeping Mechanism in H-CRAN-Cloud-Edge Networks.

Ali Alnoman Alagan Anpalagan

CloudCFI: Context-Sensitive and Incremental CFI in the Cloud Environment.

Weizhong Qiang Yingda Huang Hai Jin Laurence T. Yang Deqing Zou

Blockchain-Based Public Integrity Verification for Cloud Storage against Procrastinating Auditors.

Yuan Zhang Chunxiang Xu Xiaodong Lin Xuemin Shen

Architectural Protection of Trusted System Services for SGX Enclaves in Cloud Computing.

Hongliang Liang Mingyu Li Yixiu Chen Tianqi Yang Zhuosi Xie Lin Jiang

An Efficient Approach Based on Ant Colony Optimization and Tabu Search for a Resource Embedding Across Multiple Cloud Providers.

Marieme Diallo Alejandro Quintero Samuel Pierre

A Two-Stage Auction Mechanism for Cloud Resource Allocation.

Seyyedali Hosseinalipour Huaiyu Dai

A Streaming Cloud Platform for Real-Time Video Processing on Embedded Devices.

Weishan Zhang Haoyun Sun Dehai Zhao Liang Xu Xin Liu Huansheng Ning Jiehan Zhou Yi Guo Su Yang

A Game-Theoretic Framework for the Virtual Machines Migration Timing Problem.

Ahmed H. Anwar George K. Atia Mina Guirguis

A Game-based Thermal-Aware Resource Allocation Strategy for Data Centers.

Saeed Akbar Saif Ur Rehman Malik Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo Samee U. Khan Naveed Ahmad Adeel Anjum


Volume 9, Number 2, April - June 2021
Correction to "An Efficient and Secured Framework For Mobile Cloud Computing".

Ibrahim A. Elgendy Weizhe Zhang Chuan-Yi Liu Ching-Hsien Hsu

Virtual Network Recognition and Optimization in SDN-Enabled Cloud Environment.

He Li Kaoru Ota Mianxiong Dong

User Association in Cloud RANs with Massive MIMO.

Saeedeh Parsaeefard Vikas Jumba Atoosa Dalili Shoaei Mahsa Derakhshani Tho Le-Ngoc

Two-Aggregator Topology Optimization Using Single Paths in Data Center Networks.

Soham Das Sartaj Sahni

Threat-Specific Security Risk Evaluation in the Cloud.

Armstrong Nhlabatsi Jin B. Hong Dong Seong Kim Rachael Fernandez Alaa Hussein Noora Fetais Khaled M. Khan

QoS Promotion in Energy-Efficient Datacenters Through Peak Load Scheduling.

Cheng Hu Yuhui Deng Geyong Min Ping Huang Xiao Qin

Providing Bandwidth Guarantees, Work Conservation and Low Latency Simultaneously in the Cloud.

Shuihai Hu Wei Bai Kai Chen Chen Tian Ying Zhang Haitao Wu

Privacy Preserving Searchable Encryption with Fine-Grained Access Control.

Payal Chaudhari Manik Lal Das

Optimizing Quality-Aware Big Data Applications in the Cloud.

Eugenio Gianniti Michele Ciavotta Danilo Ardagna

On the Planning and Design Problem of Fog Computing Networks.

Faisal Haider Decheng Zhang Marc St-Hilaire Christian Makaya

On the Fly Orchestration of Unikernels: Tuning and Performance Evaluation of Virtual Infrastructure Managers.

Pier Luigi Ventre Paolo Lungaroni Giuseppe Siracusano Claudio Pisa Florian Schmidt Francesco Lombardo Stefano Salsano

New YARN Non-Exclusive Resource Management Scheme through Opportunistic Idle Resource Assignment.

Zhengyu Yang Yi Yao Han Gao Jiayin Wang Ningfang Mi Bo Sheng

Maximizing Cloud Revenue using Dynamic Pricing of Multiple Class Virtual Machines.

Fadi Alzhouri Anjali Agarwal Yan Liu

KeyD: Secure Key-Deduplication with Identity-Based Broadcast Encryption.

Ling Liu Yuqing Zhang Xuejun Li

Hypertracing: Tracing Through Virtualization Layers.

Abderrahmane Benbachir Michel Dagenais

Hybrid Evolutionary Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Fog-Enhanced Internet of Things.

Chuge Wu Wei Li Ling Wang Albert Y. Zomaya

Guaranteed Bang for the Buck: Modeling VDI Applications to Identify Storage Requirements.

Hao Wen David H. C. Du Milan Shetti Doug Voigt Shanshan Li

FPGA Resource Pooling in Cloud Computing.

Zhuangdi Zhu Alex X. Liu Fan Zhang Fei Chen

Efficient Oblivious Data Structures for Database Services on the Cloud.

Thang Hoang Ceyhun D. Ozkaptan Gabriel Hackebeil Attila Altay Yavuz

Efficient and Secure Outsourcing of Large-Scale Linear System of Equations.

Qi Ding Guobiao Weng Guohui Zhao Changhui Hu

Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Online Fingerprint Authentication Scheme over Outsourced Data.

Hui Zhu Qing Wei Xiaopeng Yang Rongxing Lu Hui Li

D-SRTF: Distributed Shortest Remaining Time First Scheduling for Data Center Networks.

Chengxi Gao Victor C. S. Lee Keqin Li

Dependable Data Outsourcing Scheme Based on Cloud-of-Clouds Approach with Fast Recovery.

Chun-I Fan Jheng-Jia Huang Shang-Wei Tseng I-Te Chen

Demand-Aware Erasure Coding for Distributed Storage Systems.

Jun Li Baochun Li

Consolidating Policy Chains Using One Pass Packet Steering in Software Defined Data Centers.

Julian Chimaobi Chukwu Ashraf Matrawy Dimitrios Makrakis

Cloud Resource Scaling for Time-Bounded and Unbounded Big Data Streaming Applications.

Olubisi Runsewe Nancy Samaan

Characterization and Prediction of Performance Loss and MTTR During Fault Recovery on Scale-Out Storage Using DOE & RSM: A Case Study with Ceph.

Lay Wai Kong Orlando Moreno

An SLA-Aware Cloud Coalition Formation Approach for Virtualized Networks.

Souad Hadjres Nadjia Kara May El Barachi Fatna Belqasmi

An Intermediate Data Partition Algorithm for Skew Mitigation in Spark Computing Environment.

Zhuo Tang Wei Lv Kenli Li Keqin Li

A Robust Optimization Technique for Energy Cost Minimization of Cloud Data Centers.

Muhammad Jawad Muhammad Bilal Qureshi Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan Sahibzada Muhammad Ali Chaudhry Arshad Mehmood Bilal Khan Xiaoyu Wang Samee U. Khan

A Robust Generic Multi-Authority Attributes Management System for Cloud Storage Services.

Ibrahim Mostafa Ibrahim Mostafa G. M. Mostafa Sherif Hazem Nour El-Din Rania Elgohary Hossam El Deen Mostafa Faheem

A Hierarchical Receding Horizon Algorithm for QoS-Driven Control of Multi-IaaS Applications.

Danilo Ardagna Michele Ciavotta Riccardo Lancellotti Michele Guerriero

Editorial: State of the Transactions on Cloud Computing.

Yuanyuan Yang


Volume 9, Number 1, January - March 2021
Virtual Machine Extrospection: A Reverse Information Retrieval in Clouds.

Jidong Xiao Lei Lu Hai Huang Haining Wang

Unequal Failure Protection Coding Technique for Distributed Cloud Storage Systems.

Yupeng Hu Yonghe Liu Wenjia Li Keqin Li Kenli Li Nong Xiao Zheng Qin

Trigger-Based Incremental Data Processing with Unified Sync and Async Model.

Dong Dai Yong Chen Dries Kimpe Robert B. Ross

Speeding Up VM Startup by Cooperative VM Image Caching.

Yifan Zhang Kai Niu Weigang Wu Keqin Li Yu Zhou

SeSPHR: A Methodology for Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in the Cloud.

Mazhar Ali Assad Abbas Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan Samee U. Khan

Risk-Averse Caching Policies for YouTube Content in Femtocell Networks using Density Forecasting.

William Hoiles S. M. Shahrear Tanzil Vikram Krishnamurthy

Provably Secure and Lightweight Identity-Based Authenticated Data Sharing Protocol for Cyber-Physical Cloud Environment.

Arijit Karati Ruhul Amin SK Hafizul Islam Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Price-Based Resource Allocation for Edge Computing: A Market Equilibrium Approach.

Duong Tung Nguyen Long Bao Le Vijay K. Bhargava

Outsourcing Proofs of Retrievability.

Frederik Armknecht Jens-Matthias Bohli Ghassan Karame Wenting Li

On the Efficiency of Cloud Providers: A DEA Approach Incorporating Categorical Variables.

Evangelia Filiopoulou Persefoni Mitropoulou Nikolas Lionis Christos Michalakelis

Network and Application-Aware Cloud Service Selection in Peer-Assisted Environments.

Sina Askarnejad Marzieh Malekimajd Ali Movaghar

Multi-Cloud Performance and Security Driven Federated Workflow Management.

Matthew Dickinson Saptarshi Debroy Prasad Calyam Samaikya Valluripally Yuanxun Zhang Ronny Bazan Antequera Trupti Joshi Tommi White Dong Xu

Live Migration in Bare-Metal Clouds.

Takaaki Fukai Takahiro Shinagawa Kazuhiko Kato

Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Delegatable Proofs of Storage with Data Dynamics in Cloud Storage.

Anjia Yang Jia Xu Jian Weng Jianying Zhou Duncan S. Wong

Karma: Cost-Effective Geo-Replicated Cloud Storage with Dynamic Enforcement of Causal Consistency.

Tariq Mahmood Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan Sanjay G. Rao T. N. Vijaykumar Mithuna Thottethodi

Hedonic Pricing of Cloud Computing Services.

Caesar Wu Adel Nadjaran Toosi Rajkumar Buyya Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Enhancing Performance and Energy Efficiency for Hybrid Workloads in Virtualized Cloud Environment.

Chi Xu Xiaoqiang Ma Ryan Shea Haiyang Wang Jiangchuan Liu

Efficient Replica Migration Scheme for Distributed Cloud Storage Systems.

Amina Mseddi Mohammad A. Salahuddin Mohamed Faten Zhani Halima Elbiaze Roch H. Glitho

Efficient Algorithm for Secure Outsourcing of Modular Exponentiation with Single Server.

Yanli Ren Min Dong Zhenxing Qian Xinpeng Zhang Guorui Feng

Dynamic VM Scaling: Provisioning and Pricing through an Online Auction.

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

Cost Optimal Data Center Servers: A Voltage Scaling Approach.

Wei Zhang Yonggang Wen Loi Lei Lai Fang Liu Rui Fan

Cooperative Set Homomorphic Proofs for Data Possession Checking in Clouds.

Nesrine Kaaniche Maryline Laurent Sébastien Canard

An Empirical Study on Data Flow Bugs in Business Processes.

Wei Song Chengzhen Zhang Hans-Arno Jacobsen

An Efficient and Secured Framework for Mobile Cloud Computing.

Ibrahim A. Elgendy Weizhe Zhang Chuan-Yi Liu Ching-Hsien Hsu

Aggregation-Based Colocation Datacenter Energy Management in Wholesale Markets.

Yuanxiong Guo Miao Pan Yanmin Gong

Applying Buffer to SDN Switches: Benefits Analysis and Mechanism Design.

Fuliang Li Jiannong Cao Xingwei Wang Yinchu Sun Tian Pan Xuefeng Liu

Adaptive Resource Management for Analyzing Video Streams from Globally Distributed Network Cameras.

Anup Mohan Ahmed S. Kaseb Yung-Hsiang Lu Thomas J. Hacker

Achieving Secure, Universal, and Fine-Grained Query Results Verification for Secure Search Scheme Over Encrypted Cloud Data.

Hui Yin Zheng Qin Jixin Zhang Lu Ou Keqin Li

A New Service Mechanism for Profit Optimizations of a Cloud Provider and Its Users.

Chubo Liu Kenli Li Keqin Li Rajkumar Buyya

A Game Approach to Multi-Servers Load Balancing with Load-Dependent Server Availability Consideration.

Chubo Liu Kenli Li Keqin Li