In SaaS, most tenants rely on the service provider for data maintenance and computation. As tenants no longer possess their application and data locally, it is of critical importance for the tenants to ensure that their data are being correctly stored and maintained. However, the customized multi-tenants sharing storage mode makes it hard for tenants to guarantee their data integrity because mu...

FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate arrays) have gained massive popularity today as accelerators for a variety of workloads, including big data analytics, and parallel and distributed computing. This has fueled the study of mechanisms to provision FPGAs among multiple tenants as general purpose computing resources on the cloud. Such mechanisms offer new challenges, such as ensuring IP protection and...

In the last decade, many business applications have moved into the cloud. In particular, the “database-as-a-service” paradigm has become mainstream. While existing multi-tenant data management systems focus on single-tenant query processing, we believe that it is time to rethink how queries can be processed across multiple tenants in such a way that we do not only gain more valuable insights, b...

Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is expected to emerge as the next major category of Cloud Computing. The combination of fast expanding technologies with increasing competitiveness will make more and more companies move parts of their business processes into the cloud. This enables them to take advantage of the cloud provider’s expertise and to reduce their cost by sharing resources to exp...

Cloud computing technologies are receiving a great deal of attention. Furthermore most of the hardware devices such as the PCs and mobile phones are increasingly having a trusted component called Trusted Platform Module embedded in them, which helps to measure the state of the platform and hence reason about its trust. Recently attestation techniques such as binary attestation and property base...

This study examines the impact of energy management and productivity-enhancing measures, implemented as part LEED Existing Buildings Operations Management (EBOM) certification, on source use intensity rental premiums office spaces using data four major US markets. Energy practices, comprised commissioning advanced metering, may reduce usage. Conversely, improving air quality occupant comfort in...

Fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are expected to support diverse use cases beyond traditional voice and mobile broadband services. Efforts to connect anyone and anything have gained significant traction in several industries, among them automotive, logistics, manufacturing, and robotics. Exemplary use cases include eHealth, IoT (Internet of Things) applications, and V2X (vehicle-to-anythin...