The energy efficiency has become an important aspect in data centers and large server systems, including the ones used in infrastructure for mobile applications service providers. Virtualization is one of the main research directions for both large scale data centers and applications servers. Furthermore, virtualization is also popular on desktop systems and is now considered in embedded system...

In the past decade, with the unprecedented growth in tech companies and advances in cloud computing, it has become increasingly common for companies to incorporate virtualization in their data centers to fully utilize their hardware resources. As a result, virtualization and virtualization security have gone through major transforms in the recent years. Virtualization and its unique architectur...

Three concepts (a) network programmability by clear separation of data and control planes and (b) sharing of network infrastructure to provide multitenancy, including traffic and address isolation, in large data center networks and (c) replacing the functions that traditionally run on a specialized hardware, with the software-realizations that run on commodity servers have gained lot of attenti...

The cloud, which consists of data centers featuring a high concentration of CPUs and storage, is the natural habitat of the more popular Internet services, such as Facebook, Google Search, Google Drive, YouTube, etc. It is not limited to such large corporations: other companies can rent machines in the cloud to build innovative services. For example, Dropbox relies on Amazon Web Services to off...