More often than not, a “cloud” refers to an “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” (IaaS) cloud, such as Amazon EC2, where IT infrastructure is deployed in a cloud provider’s datacenter in the form of virtual machines. With the growing popularity of IaaS clouds, an ecosystem of tools and technologies is emerging that can transform an organization’s existing infrastructure into a private cloud or a hybri...

In recent years, information communication and computation technologies are deeply converging, and various wireless access technologies have been successful in deployment. It can be predicted that the upcoming fifthgeneration mobile communication technology (5G) can no longer be defined by a single business model or a typical technical characteristic. 5G is a multi-service and multitechnology i...

Big data has been arising a growing interest in both scien- tific and industrial fields for its potential value. However, before employing big data technology into massive appli- cations, a basic but also principle topic should be investigated: security and privacy. One of the biggest concerns of big data is privacy. However, the study on big data privacy is still at a very early stage. Many or...

in order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, being on demand, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. in addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers, travel agencies and other institutions with other ser...

Nowadays, the teaching-learning processes are being supported by the development of new technologies. During the recent past, technologies such as email, chat, audioconferencing, videoconferencing and webconferencing were incorporated as new tools in the teaching-learning process. Currently, another step is being walked with the development and the popularization of cloud technologies that are ...