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  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,235 Views
28 Pages

Cloud computing is considered suitable for organizations thanks to its flexibility and the provision of digital services via the Internet. The cloud provides nearly limitless computing resources on demand without any upfront costs or long-term contra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,815 Views
21 Pages

Containerized Microservices Orchestration and Provisioning in Cloud Computing: A Conceptual Framework and Future Perspectives

  • Abdul Saboor,
  • Mohd Fadzil Hassan,
  • Rehan Akbar,
  • Syed Nasir Mehmood Shah,
  • Farrukh Hassan,
  • Saeed Ahmed Magsi and
  • Muhammad Aadil Siddiqui

7 June 2022

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing paradigm which has evolved from having a monolithic to microservices architecture. The importance of cloud data centers has expanded dramatically in the previous decade, and they are now regarded as the backbone o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,988 Views
29 Pages

29 November 2020

To satisfy the explosive growth of computation-intensive vehicular applications, we investigated the computation offloading problem in a cognitive vehicular networks (CVN). Specifically, in our scheme, the vehicular cloud computing (VCC)- and remote...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
244 Citations
52,069 Views
35 Pages

Cloud Computing Security: A Survey

  • Issa M. Khalil,
  • Abdallah Khreishah and
  • Muhammad Azeem

3 February 2014

Cloud computing is an emerging technology paradigm that migrates current technological and computing concepts into utility-like solutions similar to electricity and water systems. Clouds bring out a wide range of benefits including configurable compu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,178 Views
19 Pages

Data Processing in Cloud Computing Model on the Example of Salesforce Cloud

  • Witold Marańda,
  • Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda and
  • Małgorzata Szymczyńska

12 February 2022

Data processing is integrated with every aspect of operation enterprises—from accounting to marketing and communication internal and control of production processes. The best place to store the information is a properly prepared data center. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information for Business and Management–Software Development for Data Processing and Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
190 Citations
45,187 Views
22 Pages

Edge Computing and Cloud Computing for Internet of Things: A Review

  • Francesco Cosimo Andriulo,
  • Marco Fiore,
  • Marina Mongiello,
  • Emanuele Traversa and
  • Vera Zizzo

30 September 2024

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things ecosystem has created an urgent need for efficient data processing and analysis technologies. This review aims to systematically examine and compare edge computing, cloud computing, and hybrid architectur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,138 Views
37 Pages

A Systematic Parameter Analysis of Cloud Simulation Tools in Cloud Computing Environments

  • Muhammad Asim Shahid,
  • Muhammad Mansoor Alam and
  • Mazliham Mohd Su’ud

29 July 2023

To provide various applications in various domains, a large-scale cloud data center is required. Cloud computing enables access to nearly infinite computing resources on demand. As cloud computing grows in popularity, researchers in this field must c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology of Intelligent Control and Simulation Evaluation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,364 Views
17 Pages

When Sensor-Cloud Meets Mobile Edge Computing

  • Tian Wang,
  • Yucheng Lu,
  • Zhihan Cao,
  • Lei Shu,
  • Xi Zheng,
  • Anfeng Liu and
  • Mande Xie

3 December 2019

Sensor-clouds are a combination of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and cloud computing. The emergence of sensor-clouds has greatly enhanced the computing power and storage capacity of traditional WSNs via exploiting the advantages of cloud computing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advancement in Edge/Fog Computing for Intelligent IoT Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
15,696 Views
27 Pages

Centralized vs. Decentralized Cloud Computing in Healthcare

  • Mona Abughazalah,
  • Wafaa Alsaggaf,
  • Shireen Saifuddin and
  • Shahenda Sarhan

3 September 2024

Healthcare is one of the industries that seeks to deliver medical services to patients on time. One of the issues it currently grapples with is real-time patient data exchange between various healthcare organizations. This challenge was solved by bot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,409 Views
28 Pages

21 May 2025

Edge computing refers to provision storage and computation resources at the network edge, closer to end users than the remote cloud. In such edge–cloud computing environments, many cloud providers intend to offload cloud services to the edge no...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
14,785 Views
23 Pages

Harnessing remote computation power over the Internet without the need for expensive hardware and making costly services available to mass users at a marginal cost gave birth to the concept of cloud computing. This survey provides a concise overview...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,171 Views
22 Pages

Ontologies in Cloud Computing—Review and Future Directions

  • JohnBosco Agbaegbu,
  • Oluwasefunmi Tale Arogundade,
  • Sanjay Misra and
  • Robertas Damaševičius

26 November 2021

Cloud computing as a technology has the capacity to enhance cooperation, scalability, accessibility, and offers discount prospects using improved and effective computing, and this capability helps organizations to stay focused. Ontologies are used to...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,975 Views
15 Pages

Model to Implement Virtual Computing Labs via Cloud Computing Services

  • Washington Luna Encalada and
  • José Luis Castillo Sequera

13 July 2017

In recent years, we have seen a significant number of new technological ideas appearing in literature discussing the future of education. For example, E-learning, cloud computing, social networking, virtual laboratories, virtual realities, virtual wo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced in Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,616 Views
17 Pages

11 August 2020

High performance computing (HPC) is widely recognized as a key enabling technology for advancing scientific progress, industrial competitiveness, national and regional security, and the quality of human life. Notwithstanding this contribution, the la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud-Native Applications and Services)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
19,298 Views
5 Pages

Cloud computing is a new generation of computing systems, increasingly developing as a promising solution to deal with the explosion of computing complexity and data size. One of the main concerns to shift from traditional computing systems to Cloud...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the IS4SI 2017 Summit DIGITALISATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12–16 June 2017.)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,449 Views
22 Pages

A Framework for Security Transparency in Cloud Computing

  • Umar Mukhtar Ismail,
  • Shareeful Islam,
  • Moussa Ouedraogo and
  • Edgar Weippl

17 February 2016

Individuals and corporate users are persistently considering cloud adoption due to its significant benefits compared to traditional computing environments. The data and applications in the cloud are stored in an environment that is separated, managed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security in Cloud Computing and Big Data)
  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
16,134 Views
41 Pages

Edge and Cloud Computing in Smart Cities

  • Maria Trigka and
  • Elias Dritsas

The evolution of smart cities is intrinsically linked to advancements in computing paradigms that support real-time data processing, intelligent decision-making, and efficient resource utilization. Edge and cloud computing have emerged as fundamental...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT, Edge, and Cloud Computing in Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,055 Views
35 Pages

Software Architecture for Mobile Cloud Computing Systems

  • Abdulrahman Alreshidi,
  • Aakash Ahmad,
  • Ahmed B. Altamimi,
  • Khalid Sultan and
  • Rashid Mehmood

13 November 2019

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) has recently emerged as a state-of-the-art technology for mobile systems. MCC enables portable and context-aware computation via mobile devices by exploiting virtually unlimited hardware and software resources offered by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,281 Views
21 Pages

Users’ Adoption of Sustainable Cloud Computing Solutions

  • Małgorzata Pańkowska,
  • Krzysztof Pyszny and
  • Artur Strzelecki

27 November 2020

The paper is dedicated to factors influencing users’ adoption of sustainable cloud computing solutions. The article covers the important characteristics related to cloud computing. It also discusses how sustainable cloud computing is important...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ICT Adoption for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
14,734 Views
27 Pages

A Survey on Intrusion Detection Systems for Fog and Cloud Computing

  • Victor Chang,
  • Lewis Golightly,
  • Paolo Modesti,
  • Qianwen Ariel Xu,
  • Le Minh Thao Doan,
  • Karl Hall,
  • Sreeja Boddu and
  • Anna Kobusińska

The rapid advancement of internet technologies has dramatically increased the number of connected devices. This has created a huge attack surface that requires the deployment of effective and practical countermeasures to protect network infrastructur...

(This article belongs to the Collection Innovative People-Centered Solutions Applied to Industries, Cities and Societies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
579 Citations
58,512 Views
49 Pages

A Survey on Internet of Things and Cloud Computing for Healthcare

  • L. Minh Dang,
  • Md. Jalil Piran,
  • Dongil Han,
  • Kyungbok Min and
  • Hyeonjoon Moon

The fast development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology in recent years has supported connections of numerous smart things along with sensors and established seamless data exchange between them, so it leads to a stringy requirement for data a...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
14,555 Views
25 Pages

Blueprinting Approach in Support of Cloud Computing

  • Dinh Khoa Nguyen,
  • Francesco Lelli,
  • Mike P. Papazoglou and
  • Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel

21 March 2012

Current cloud service offerings, i.e., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings are often provided as monolithic, one-size-fits-all solutions and give little or no room for customizat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Web Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
54,580 Views
33 Pages

Cyberattacks and Security of Cloud Computing: A Complete Guideline

  • Muhammad Dawood,
  • Shanshan Tu,
  • Chuangbai Xiao,
  • Hisham Alasmary,
  • Muhammad Waqas and
  • Sadaqat Ur Rehman

26 October 2023

Cloud computing is an innovative technique that offers shared resources for stock cache and server management. Cloud computing saves time and monitoring costs for any organization and turns technological solutions for large-scale systems into server-...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,182 Views
4 Pages

In the paper we present several models of computation for autonomic cloud computing. In particular, we justify that for autonomic cloud computing if we require perfect self-reflection, we need models of computation going beyond Turing machines. To ap...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the IS4SI 2017 Summit DIGITALISATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12–16 June 2017.)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,517 Views
29 Pages

13 March 2019

Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management, which includes the adoption of appropriate methods for allocating clou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fog/Edge Computing in Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,841 Views
16 Pages

Trading Cloud Computing Stocks Using SMA

  • Xianrong Zheng and
  • Lingyu Li

21 August 2024

As cloud computing adoption becomes mainstream, the cloud services market offers vast profits. Moreover, serverless computing, the next stage of cloud computing, comes with huge economic potential. To capitalize on this trend, investors are intereste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain Applications for Business Process Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,189 Views
12 Pages

26 November 2014

Green and cloud computing (G-cloud) are new trends in all areas of computing. The G-cloud provides an efficient function, which enables users to access their programs, systems and platforms at anytime and anyplace. Green computing can also yield gree...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ubiquitous Green IT System for Sustainable Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,985 Views
18 Pages

CIMS: A Context-Based Intelligent Multimedia System for Ubiquitous Cloud Computing

  • Abhilash Sreeramaneni,
  • Hyungjin Im,
  • Won Min Kang,
  • Chan Koh and
  • Jong Hyuk Park

4 June 2015

Mobile users spend a tremendous amount of time surfing multimedia contents over the Internet to pursue their interests. A resource-constrained smart device demands more intensive computing tasks and lessens the battery life. To address the resource l...

  • Review
  • Open Access
140 Citations
43,220 Views
27 Pages

Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing: Technical Review

  • Yunusa Simpa Abdulsalam and
  • Mustapha Hedabou

27 December 2021

Advances in the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) has given rise to the popularity and success of cloud computing. Cloud computing offers advantages and opportunities for business users to migrate and leverage the scalability...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
18,148 Views
42 Pages

Cloud and Edge Computing-Based Computer Forensics: Challenges and Open Problems

  • Vijay Prakash,
  • Alex Williams,
  • Lalit Garg,
  • Claudio Savaglio and
  • Seema Bawa

In recent years, there has been a dramatic change in attitude towards computers and the use of computer resources in general. Cloud and Edge computing have emerged as the most widely used technologies, including fog computing and the Internet of Thin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends in Intelligent Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,821 Views
16 Pages

A Visualization Review of Cloud Computing Algorithms in the Last Decade

  • Junhu Ruan,
  • Felix T. S. Chan,
  • Fangwei Zhu,
  • Xuping Wang and
  • Jing Yang

11 October 2016

Cloud computing has competitive advantages—such as on-demand self-service, rapid computing, cost reduction, and almost unlimited storage—that have attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Some review works have b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,219 Views
17 Pages

Cloud computing is a massive amount of dynamic ad distributed resources that are delivered on request to clients over the Internet. Typical centralized cloud computing models may have difficulty dealing with challenges caused by IoT applications, suc...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications and Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,260 Views
31 Pages

Fog vs. Cloud Computing: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

  • Flávia Pisani,
  • Vanderson Martins do Rosario and
  • Edson Borin

2 February 2019

In this article, we work toward the answer to the question “is it worth processing a data stream on the device that collected it or should we send it somewhere else?”. As it is often the case in computer science, the response is “it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
14,602 Views
15 Pages

20 August 2018

The use of big data, artificial intelligence, and new information and communication technologies has led to sustainable developments and improved business competitiveness. Until recently cloud services were classified as having special system require...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0 and the Internet of things: changes in business model, strategy formulation and implementation, firm operations towards sustainable development and sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,131 Views
22 Pages

Privacy Preservation Models for Third-Party Auditor over Cloud Computing: A Survey

  • Abdul Razaque,
  • Mohamed Ben Haj Frej,
  • Bandar Alotaibi and
  • Munif Alotaibi

8 November 2021

Cloud computing has become a prominent technology due to its important utility service; this service concentrates on outsourcing data to organizations and individual consumers. Cloud computing has considerably changed the manner in which individuals...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Privacy-Preservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,735 Views
19 Pages

Cloud Computing for Climate Modelling: Evaluation, Challenges and Benefits

  • Diego Montes,
  • Juan A. Añel,
  • David C. H. Wallom,
  • Peter Uhe,
  • Pablo V. Caderno and
  • Tomás F. Pena

Cloud computing is a mature technology that has already shown benefits for a wide range of academic research domains that, in turn, utilize a wide range of application design models. In this paper, we discuss the use of cloud computing as a tool to i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,321 Views
18 Pages

An Analytical Survey of WSNs Integration with Cloud and Fog Computing

  • Qaisar Shaheen,
  • Muhammad Shiraz,
  • Shariq Aziz Butt,
  • Abdullah Gani and
  • Muazzam A. Khan

27 October 2021

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are spatially scattered networks equipped with an extensive number of nodes to check and record different ecological states such as humidity, temperature, pressure, and lightning states. WSN network provides different...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Internet of Things and Emerging Social Internet of Things: Vision, Challenges, and Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,465 Views
18 Pages

Cloud Computing Network Empowered by Modern Topological Invariants

  • Khalid Hamid,
  • Muhammad Waseem Iqbal,
  • Qaiser Abbas,
  • Muhammad Arif,
  • Adrian Brezulianu and
  • Oana Geman

20 January 2023

The cloud computing networks used in the IoT, and other themes of network architectures, can be investigated and improved by cheminformatics, which is a combination of chemistry, computer science, and mathematics. Cheminformatics involves graph theor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods for Next Generation Wireless and IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,299 Views
16 Pages

17 January 2018

Many artificial intelligence applications often require a huge amount of computing resources. As a result, cloud computing adoption rates are increasing in the artificial intelligence field. To support the demand for artificial intelligence applicati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced in Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
239 Citations
44,095 Views
34 Pages

Cyber Security in IoT-Based Cloud Computing: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Waqas Ahmad,
  • Aamir Rasool,
  • Abdul Rehman Javed,
  • Thar Baker and
  • Zunera Jalil

Cloud computing provides the flexible architecture where data and resources are dispersed at various locations and are accessible from various industrial environments. Cloud computing has changed the using, storing, and sharing of resources such as d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Security for Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
11,336 Views
30 Pages

Cyber-Storms Come from Clouds: Security of Cloud Computing in the IoT Era

  • Michele De Donno,
  • Alberto Giaretta,
  • Nicola Dragoni,
  • Antonio Bucchiarone and
  • Manuel Mazzara

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly changing our society to a world where every “thing” is connected to the Internet, making computing pervasive like never before. This tsunami of connectivity and data collection relies more and more...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,930 Views
10 Pages

Big data makes cloud computing more and more popular in various fields. Video resources are very useful and important to education, security monitoring, and so on. However, issues of their huge volumes, complex data types, inefficient processing perf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Intelligent Systems and Networks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
17,194 Views
32 Pages

The convergence of cloud computing and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has significantly transformed industrial operations, enabling intelligent, scalable, and efficient systems. This survey provides a comprehensive analysis of the role clou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Cloud Computing in Industrial Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,525 Views
13 Pages

19 November 2021

As Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices are becoming increasingly popular in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the orchestration and management of numerous fog devices encounter a scalability problem. I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Computing and Big Data Analysis: Latest Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,485 Views
20 Pages

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that allows users to conveniently access computing resources as pay-per-use services. Whereas cloud offerings such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Google Apps are rapidly gaining a large user base, enterp...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,292 Views
10 Pages

Small and mid-size enterprises (SME) are considered the backbone of developing economies in terms of reducing poverty and unemployment. Although most SMEs are still reluctant in new technology adoption, such as cloud computing, some benefited from th...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 7th International Management Information Systems Conference)
  • Review
  • Open Access
185 Citations
33,379 Views
25 Pages

A Review of Machine Learning Algorithms for Cloud Computing Security

  • Umer Ahmed Butt,
  • Muhammad Mehmood,
  • Syed Bilal Hussain Shah,
  • Rashid Amin,
  • M. Waqas Shaukat,
  • Syed Mohsan Raza,
  • Doug Young Suh and
  • Md. Jalil Piran

Cloud computing (CC) is on-demand accessibility of network resources, especially data storage and processing power, without special and direct management by the users. CC recently has emerged as a set of public and private datacenters that offers the...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,287 Views
39 Pages

Research on Intelligent Resource Management Solutions for Green Cloud Computing

  • Amirmohammad Parhizkar,
  • Ehsan Arianyan and
  • Pejman Goudarzi

1 February 2026

Cloud computing utilization has experienced progressive expansion over the last decade, which has raised concerns and challenges regarding efficient resource allocation and energy efficiency. The burgeoning increase in the number of cloud computing u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud/Edge Computing for Next-Generation Networks: Architecture and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,404 Views
14 Pages

Off the Shelf Cloud Robotics for the Smart Home: Empowering a Wireless Robot through Cloud Computing

  • Javier Ramírez De La Pinta,
  • José María Maestre Torreblanca,
  • Isabel Jurado and
  • Sergio Reyes De Cozar

6 March 2017

In this paper, we explore the possibilities offered by the integration of home automation systems and service robots. In particular, we examine how advanced computationally expensive services can be provided by using a cloud computing approach to ove...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Home Automation and Security)

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