The requirements on networks referring to bandwidth, QoS and mobility are increasing because of the huge traffic growth, the increasing amount of mobile devices and the always-on-demand from subscribers, no matter if the end user devices are stationary ...

An important trend in the computer science is towards Cloud Computing and we can see that many cloud services are proposed and developed in the Internet. An important cloud service like the IaaS as AWS EC2 can help many companies to build data centers ...

Cloud computing has become very popular in recent years. Various PaaS (Platform as a Service) systems for collaborative software development as well as DaaS (Desktop as a Service) systems for developing software have been proposed. Software development ...

One difficulty facing Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service providers is the issue of monitoring and managing their service delivery network. An in-depth monitoring regime is required, which performs measurements within different networking ...

In this paper, we provide an overview of the OM4SPACE project and different types of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks (both structured and unstructured), identify requirements for integrating P2P networks into the project and discuss which of the P2P networks ...

Today's distributed systems are more and more complex, so they are required to be autonomic, i.e., to exhibit some self-* properties in order to manage themselves. Autonomic systems are usually composed of different components, which collaborate to ...

Load balancing is the core of virtual resource management and scheduling in cloud computing. For network applications, the cost of user would be greatly saved if load balancer could dynamically adjust cluster resources in accordance with the current ...

The concept of cloud computing has become one of the hot topics in the world of corporate information systems in recent years. Organisations are always interested in initiatives that allow them to pay less attention to the more mundane areas of ...

In the last decades biology scientists have relied on their own resources and tools to run the experiments and store the results of the analysis. However, the explosion of big data and the growing availability of computational methods find an obstacle ...

The VPH-Share project objective is to store, share, integrate, and link data, information, knowledge, and wisdom about the physiopathology of the human body to enable their reuse within the virtual physiological human community. Therefore, the projects ...

When we talk about smart cities, one of the key pillars is a smart management of traffic and transport infrastructure. In this paper, we propose an architecture to support highway monitoring in smart cities. Starting from a project to reduce cost of ...

An open issue to exploit Grid resources is related to job migration, possibly due to resource failures (real or perceived ones) or to the violation of QoS, it may be required to migrate an entire job, or parts of it, to other resources and reschedule ...

Scientific applications modeled as workflows can exhibit both task and data parallelism. Scheduling these workflows in a multi-cluster environment is challenging due to the large number of task mapping possibilities. Therefore, several heuristics have ...

In recent years the amount of applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks has increased drastically. In this context, the number of devices used and their location varies depending on the context where the network is deployed. Extensive sensing and ...

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), cluster formation and cluster head selection are critical issues. They can drastically affect the network's performance in different environments with different characteristics. In order to deal with this problem, we ...

Static testing is a form of software testing where the software needn't be executed and can find valuable software defects in the early stage of software development cycle. In contrast to dynamic testing, static testing performs code walkthrough ...

One of the main design challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is to prolong the system lifetime, while achieving acceptable quality of service for applications. In WSN, each sensor node is battery powered and it is not convenient to recharge or ...

The adaptable and distributed nature of wireless sensor networks has made them popular in a broad range of applications. Clustering is a widely accepted approach for organising nodes in sensor networks to address the network congestion and energy ...

The presence of many-core units as accelerators has been increasing due to their ability to improve the performance of highly parallel workloads. General Purpose GPU(GPGPU) computing has allowed the graphical units to emerge as successful co-processors ...

Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next-wave system architectures of IT. Essentially, it can have ubiquitous access through variety of devices and applications provided by cloud service providers. In particular, cloud storage service brings ...