Cloud Computing is a new trend emerging in IT environment with huge requirements of infrastructure and resources. Load Balancing is an important aspect of cloud computing environment. Efficient load balancing scheme ensures efficient resource utilization by provisioning of resources to cloud user’s on-demand basis in pay-as-you-say-manner. Load Balancing may even support prioritizing users by a...

A large number of users in the Internet have recently attracted by the media streaming applications. Due to advent of this bandwidth-intensive applications, with guaranteed QoS relying only on central resources at a media content provider it is economically inefficient to provide streaming distribution. media content providers(e.g., Video on Demand (VoD) providers) can use to obtain streaming r...

Cloud computing is an on-demand computing model, which uses virtualization technology to provide cloud resources to users in the form of virtual machines through internet. Being an adaptable technology, cloud computing is an excellent alternative for organizations for forming their own private cloud. Since the resources are limited in these private clouds maximizing the utilization of resources...

Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing, where shared resources, software and information, are provided to computers and devices on-demand. It provides people the way to share distributed resources and services that belong to different organization. Since cloud computing uses distributed resources in open environment, thus it is important to provide the security and trust to share the da...

Recently IT giants such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are gearing up to be a part of the Cloud and begin to sell their cloud services. However, the current market trading mechanism is inflexible, and the price is not reasonable enough in some situation. Therefore, we first propose a cloud market framework for people to build a uniform and fully competitive cloud market where users can b...

The Agent-Based Environment for Linking Simulations (ABELS) system is a software framework whose goal is to enable independent simulations and other data resources to exchange information dynamically without prior knowledge of each other. Specifically, it enables the dynamic formation of a “cloud” of simulations and other networked resources such as sensors and databases. This data and simulati...

Cloud Manufacturing and Cloud Service is currently one of the main directions of development in the manufacturing industry. Under the CloudManufacturing environment, the characteristics of publishing, updating, searching, and accessing manufacturing resources are massive, complex, heterogeneous, and so forth. A bilayer manufacturing resource model with separation of Cloud End and Cloud Manufact...

The proliferation of cloud computing resources in the recent years offers a way for mobile devices with limited resources to achieve computationally intensive tasks in real-time. The mobile-cloud computing paradigm, which involves collaboration between mobile and cloud resources, is expected to become increasingly popular in mobile application development. Dynamic partitioning of applications b...

Cloud Computing is used for management of resources applications and information as services over the cloud. The resources used in Cloud are usually distributed as services. Cloud resources are majorly delivered to the customers in terms of services and the security here is implemented through the infrastructure security metrics via a Service Level Agreement (SLA). SLA is a legal framework betw...

Cloud account delegation refers to the situation in which a cloud account owner (delegator) allows one or more second parties (i.e., delegates) to acquire and use cloud infrastructure resources from the owner’s account at the expense of the owner. This situation can exist in research groups, cloud testbeds, university courses, software development teams, and in general in cases where pooled res...