Cloud Computing Beyond

Dear Colleagues,

Cloud computing has become an important infrastructure in the ICT industry. Recently, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS have been used mostly in companies and in personal computing. Many cloud services require interoperable services in order to extend the service capability and business market. Additionally, AI (artificial intelligence)-based applications are emerging in many industries. Cloud computing is utilized very well and provides very fast responses for training data in AI applications. Furthermore, cloud services are migrating to edge nodes to support real-time services as well as AI applications. Conventional virtual-machine-based cloud services are challenged by many emerging issues. Thus, distributed cloud—the distribution of cloud capabilities to the edge of the network—is considerable as a new paradigm integrating with the edge cloud, where resources are virtualized and shared to CSPs (cloud service providers) using high-performance 5G networks. Future computing with cloud computing infrastructures called “cloud computing beyond” needs to solve the following technical challenges (listed in the keywords). Other challenging topics are also welcome to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Eui-Nam Huh
Guest Editor