loud-computing-based traffi c has been rapidly growing in recent years. Cisco forecasted that annual global datacenter IP traffi c will reach 7.7 zettabytes by the end of 2017, with its cloud IP traffi c reaching 5.3 zettabytes.1 Correspondingly, the service providers, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and AT&T, are building and expanding their datacenters nationwide and worldwide. Such ge...

This paper presents a mechanism for active resource management (ARM) in a differentiated services environment. While the differentiated services architecture and the bandwidth broker agent provide a mechanism for QoS management through resource reservation, this mechanism is based on a static provisioning of resources. As bandwidth requirement are typically dynamic, such a static reservation ap...

For many years mobile devices were commonly recognized as Web consumers. However, the advancements in mobile device manufacturing, coupled with the astonishing achievements in wireless communication developments are both key enablers for shifting the role of mobile devices from Web service consumers to Web service providers. This paradigm shift is a major step towards the realization of pervasi...

Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service (QoS) networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources. In this paper we introduce a new service model that provides quantit...

Our increasing reliance on the cloud has led to the emergence of scale-out workloads. These scale-out workloads are latency-sensitive as they are user driven. In order to meet strict latency constraints, they require massive computing infrastructure, which consume significant amount of energy and contribute to operational costs. This cost is further aggravated by the lack of energy proportional...

Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service (QoS) networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources. In this paper we introduce a new service model that provides quantit...

A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a small and hence low-performance hardware chip whose main function — at least for the service provisioning topic of this paper — is to play a trusted third party’s role inside a service provisioning computing platform so that the platform will have what we call a behaviour conformity property. The property of behaviour conformity is most needed in service ori...

Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service (QoS) networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources. In this paper we introduce a new service model that provides quantit...

Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in resource sharing environments such as InterGrid. Recently, many resource management systems in resource sharing environments use lease abstraction and virtual machines for provisioning. In resource sharing environments resource providers serve requests from external (grid) users along with their own local users. The problem arises when ther...

Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service (QoS) networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources. In this paper we introduce a new service model that provides quantit...