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Cloud computing is one of the essential computing platforms for modern enterprises. About 98 percent of large businesses will use cloud computing services in 2025 to enable remote working. The highly distributed structures of cloud computing are pron...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Based Tools for Cyber Security)
  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,286 Views
32 Pages

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks against Cloud Computing Environment: Survey, Issues, Challenges and Coherent Taxonomy

  • Ziyad R. Alashhab,
  • Mohammed Anbar,
  • Manmeet Mahinderjit Singh,
  • Iznan H. Hasbullah and ,
  • Prateek Jain and
  • Taief Alaa Al-Amiedy
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 December 2022

Cloud computing (CC) plays a significant role in revolutionizing the information and communication technology (ICT) industry, allowing flexible delivery of new services and computing resources at a fraction of the costs for end-users than traditional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Data and Information Security II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,330 Views
24 Pages

29 August 2019

With the rapid increase in the development of the cloud data centers, it is expected that massive data will be generated, which will decrease service response time for the cloud data centers. To improve the service response time, distributed cloud co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Centralized and Distributed Secure Edge Computing for Internet of Things Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,758 Views
31 Pages

OptiDJS+: A Next-Generation Enhanced Dynamic Johnson Sequencing Algorithm for Efficient Resource Scheduling in Distributed Overloading within Cloud Computing Environment

  • Pallab Banerjee,
  • Sharmistha Roy,
  • Umar Muhammad Modibbo,
  • Saroj Kumar Pandey and ,
  • Parul Chaudhary,
  • Anurag Sinha and
  • Narendra Kumar Singh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 October 2023

The continuously evolving world of cloud computing presents new challenges in resource allocation as dispersed systems struggle with overloaded conditions. In this regard, we introduce OptiDJS+, a cutting-edge enhanced dynamic Johnson sequencing algo...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,343 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)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,230 Views
24 Pages

An Overview of Distributed Firewalls and Controllers Intended for Mobile Cloud Computing

  • Cyril Godwin Suetor,
  • Daniele Scrimieri,
  • Amna Qureshi and
  • Irfan-Ullah Awan

13 February 2025

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is a representation of the interaction between cloud computing and mobile devices, reshaping the utilisation of technology for consumers and businesses. This level of mobility and decentralisation of devices in MCC necess...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
474 Views
39 Pages

The Exponential Distribution Optimizer (EDO) is a newly developed mathematics-based metaheuristic with a simple structure and high efficiency. However, the EDO faces dilemmas, including poor initial population quality, premature convergence, insuffic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Edge and Cloud Computing for IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
348 Views
23 Pages

The advent of cloud–fog–edge computing has transformed distributed data processing by performing computation closer to end devices. Due to resource constraints at edge nodes and the dynamic nature of fog-assisted communication, secure and...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
12,852 Views
19 Pages

Cloud Computing is a computing model that allows ubiquitous, convenient and on-demand access to a shared pool of highly configurable resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services). Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Deni...

(This article belongs to the Collection Information Systems Security)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,956 Views
17 Pages

As the functionality and services provided by cloud computing increase, control access to these services becomes more complex, and more security breaches are generated. This is mainly based on the emergence of new requirements and constraints in the...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,267 Views
33 Pages

Integrated Photonics for IoT, RoF, and Distributed Fog–Cloud Computing: A Comprehensive Review

  • Gerardo Antonio Castañón Ávila,
  • Walter Cerroni and
  • Ana Maria Sarmiento-Moncada

3 July 2025

Integrated photonics is a transformative technology for enhancing communication and computation in Cloud and Fog computing networks. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) enable significant improvements in data-processing speed, energy-efficiency, scal...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,634 Views
20 Pages

15 October 2019

The ranking and selection of simulation optimization is a very powerful tool in systems engineering and operations research. Due to the influence of randomness, the algorithms for ranking and selection need high and uncertain amounts of computing pow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,824 Views
34 Pages

22 January 2023

Authentication and authorization constitute the essential security component, access control, for preventing unauthorized access to cloud services in mobile cloud computing (MCC) environments. Traditional centralized access control models relying on...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,175 Views
21 Pages

A Parallel Unmixing-Based Content Retrieval System for Distributed Hyperspectral Imagery Repository on Cloud Computing Platforms

  • Peng Zheng,
  • Zebin Wu,
  • Jin Sun,
  • Yi Zhang and ,
  • Yaoqin Zhu,
  • Yuan Shen,
  • Jiandong Yang,
  • Zhihui Wei and
  • Antonio Plaza
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

6 January 2021

As the volume of remotely sensed data grows significantly, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) becomes increasingly important, especially for cloud computing platforms that facilitate processing and storing big data in a parallel and distributed way...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data in Earth Observation: A New Computing Paradigm for Remote Data Analysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,035 Views
29 Pages

Object Detection, Distributed Cloud Computing and Parallelization Techniques for Autonomous Driving Systems

  • Edgar Cortés Gallardo Medina,
  • Victor Miguel Velazquez Espitia,
  • Daniela Chípuli Silva,
  • Sebastián Fernández Ruiz de las Cuevas and ,
  • Marco Palacios Hirata,
  • Alfredo Zhu Chen,
  • José Ángel González González,
  • Rogelio Bustamante-Bello and
  • Carlos Francisco Moreno-García
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

25 March 2021

Autonomous vehicles are increasingly becoming a necessary trend towards building the smart cities of the future. Numerous proposals have been presented in recent years to tackle particular aspects of the working pipeline towards creating a functional...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Automation and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,985 Views
15 Pages

A DDoS Vulnerability Analysis System against Distributed SDN Controllers in a Cloud Computing Environment

  • Sumit Badotra,
  • Sarvesh Tanwar,
  • Salil Bharany,
  • Ateeq Ur Rehman and ,
  • Elsayed Tag Eldin,
  • Nivin A. Ghamry and
  • Muhammad Shafiq
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 September 2022

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is now a well-established approach in 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing. The primary idea behind its immense popularity is the separation of its underlying intelligence from the data-carrying component...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Sensing, Processing, Mining, and Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,117 Views
22 Pages

A Distributed N-FINDR Cloud Computing-Based Solution for Endmembers Extraction on Large-Scale Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data

  • Victor Andres Ayma Quirita,
  • Gilson Alexandre Ostwald Pedro da Costa and
  • César Beltrán

30 April 2022

In this work, we introduce a novel, distributed version of the N-FINDR endmember extraction algorithm, which is able to exploit computer cluster resources in order to efficiently process large volumes of hyperspectral data. The implementation of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Current Situation and New Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,241 Views
38 Pages

24 March 2023

In this work, a decentralized but synchronized real-world system for smart battery management was designed by using a general controller with cloud computing capability, four charge regulators, and a set of sensorized battery monitors with networking...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,971 Views
16 Pages

A wide range of applications, including sports and healthcare, use human activity recognition (HAR). The Internet of Things (IoT), using cloud systems, offers enormous resources but produces high delays and huge amounts of traffic. This study propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,751 Views
22 Pages

Infrastructure as Software in Micro Clouds at the Edge

  • Miloš Simić,
  • Goran Sladić,
  • Miroslav Zarić and
  • Branko Markoski

22 October 2021

Edge computing offers cloud services closer to data sources and end-users, making the foundation for novel applications. The infrastructure deployment is taking off, bringing new challenges: how to use geo-distribution properly, or harness the advant...

(This article belongs to the Topic New Frontiers in Industry 4.0)
  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
112 Citations
19,167 Views
12 Pages

28 September 2018

Developers of resource-allocation and scheduling algorithms share test datasets (i.e., benchmarks) to enable others to compare the performance of newly developed algorithms. However, mostly it is hard to acquire real cloud datasets due to the users&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,351 Views
26 Pages

5 November 2021

Cloud storage services are one of the most popular cloud computing service types these days. Various cloud storage services such as Amazon S3, DropBox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive currently support billions of users. Nevertheless, data consi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,862 Views
23 Pages

22 December 2024

CloudSim is a versatile simulation framework for modeling cloud infrastructure components that supports customizable and extensible application provisioning strategies, allowing for the simulation of cloud services. On the other hand, Distributed Aco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Sensors for Industrial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,698 Views
35 Pages

DACCA: Distributed Adaptive Cloud Continuum Architecture

  • Nektarios Deligiannakis,
  • Vassilis Papataxiarhis,
  • Michalis Loukeris,
  • Stathes Hadjiefthymiades and ,
  • Marios Touloupou,
  • Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan,
  • Herodotos Herodotou,
  • Thanasis Moustakas,
  • Emmanouil Bampis and
  • Pablo Strasser
  • + 13 authors+ 8 authors

1 February 2026

Recently, the need for unified orchestration frameworks that can manage extremely heterogeneous, distributed, and resource-constrained environments has emerged due to the rapid development of cloud, edge, and IoT computing. Kubernetes and other tradi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalable and Distributed Cloud Continuum Orchestration for Next-Generation IoT Applications: Latest Advances and Prospects—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,585 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2021

Cloud computing systems revolutionized the Internet, and web systems in particular. Quality of service is the basis of resource configuration management in the cloud. Load balancing mechanisms are implemented in order to reduce costs and increase the...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,962 Views
18 Pages

24 March 2021

Cloud-computing web systems and services revolutionized the web. Nowadays, they are the most important part of the Internet. Cloud-computing systems provide the opportunity for businesses to undergo digital transformation in order to improve efficien...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,475 Views
26 Pages

10 February 2025

Fog and edge computing have proven indispensable in tackling issues related to time-critical applications, high network congestion, user confidentiality, and data protection. While these emerging paradigms offer significant potential, substantial eff...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
373 Views
36 Pages

15 September 2026

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have significantly improved credit card fraud detection, with deep learning emerging as an effective approach for learning complex transaction patterns. However, as financial transaction datasets continue to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Edge Computing in Distributed Systems—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
932 Views
19 Pages

29 January 2026

With the wide application of cloud computing in multi-tenant, heterogeneous nodes and high-concurrency environments, model parameters frequently interact during distributed training, which easily leads to privacy leakage, communication redundancy, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,569 Views
15 Pages

14 September 2022

For organizations, knowledge is a valuable intangible asset that should be obtained, preserved, shared, and applied to assist decision-making. Cloud computing and knowledge management systems bring together technology and organizational methods to he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,530 Views
16 Pages

A Fast Synthetic Aperture Radar Raw Data Simulation Using Cloud Computing

  • Zhixin Li,
  • Dandan Su,
  • Haijiang Zhu,
  • Wei Li and ,
  • Fan Zhang and
  • Ruirui Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 January 2017

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) raw data simulation is a fundamental problem in radar system design and imaging algorithm research. The growth of surveying swath and resolution results in a significant increase in data volume and simulation period, wh...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
442 Views
35 Pages

25 September 2026

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have become a widely adopted management technology, even among small enterprises, driven by the expansion of cloud-based solutions that reduce infrastructure barriers. However, many implementations fail to s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information-Driven Synergies in the Metaverse and IoT Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,322 Views
26 Pages

22 September 2025

The volatile nature of cryptocurrency markets demands real-time analytical capabilities that traditional centralized computing architectures struggle to provide. This paper presents a novel hybrid cloud–edge computing framework for cryptocurren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Computational Techniques to Forecast Cryptocurrency Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,238 Views
18 Pages

Data-intensive applications are generating massive amounts of data which is stored on cloud computing platforms where distributed file systems are utilized for storage at the back end. Most users of those applications deployed on cloud computing syst...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,880 Views
22 Pages

Machine learning is regarded as an effective approach in network intrusion detection, and has gained significant attention in recent studies. However, few intrusion detection methods have been successfully applied to detect anomalies in large-scale n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science and Big Data in Biology, Physical Science and Engineering—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
7,143 Views
17 Pages

Blockchain-Based Security Mechanism for the Medical Data at Fog Computing Architecture of Internet of Things

  • Desire Ngabo,
  • Dong Wang,
  • Celestine Iwendi,
  • Joseph Henry Anajemba and ,
  • Lukman Adewale Ajao and
  • Cresantus Biamba
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 August 2021

The recent developments in fog computing architecture and cloud of things (CoT) technology includes data mining management and artificial intelligence operations. However, one of the major challenges of this model is vulnerability to security threats...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advanced Control, Applications, and Optimization for WSN and the IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,878 Views
16 Pages

Cloud-Fog Architecture Based Energy Management and Decision-Making for Next-Generation Distribution Network with Prosumers and Internet of Things Devices

  • Jingpeng Yue,
  • Zhijian Hu,
  • Ruijiang He,
  • Xinyan Zhang and ,
  • Jeremy Dulout,
  • Chendan Li and
  • Josep M. Guerrero
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 January 2019

With the increasing penetration of Internet of Things devices and distributed energy resources in the next-generation distribution network, the efficient energy management for system operation are facing new challenges. One reason is that the large-s...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,272 Views
27 Pages

4 November 2021

This paper introduces a genetic algorithm (GA) and a beam tracing algorithm incorporated within a dual parallel computing framework to optimize urban aerial laser scanning (ALS) missions to maximize vertical façade data capture, as needed for many th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data in Earth Observation: A New Computing Paradigm for Remote Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
112 Citations
12,180 Views
24 Pages

Smart Electric Vehicle Charging in the Era of Internet of Vehicles, Emerging Trends, and Open Issues

  • Bhaskar P. Rimal,
  • Cuiyu Kong,
  • Bikrant Poudel,
  • Yong Wang and
  • Pratima Shahi

5 March 2022

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV), where people, fleets of electric vehicles (EVs), utility, power grids, distributed renewable energy, and communications and computing infrastructures are connected, has emerged as the next big leap in smart grids and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,881 Views
13 Pages

Cloud Servers: Resource Optimization Using Different Energy Saving Techniques

  • Mohammad Hijji,
  • Bilal Ahmad,
  • Gulzar Alam,
  • Ahmed Alwakeel and ,
  • Mohammed Alwakeel,
  • Lubna Abdulaziz Alharbi,
  • Ahd Aljarf and
  • Muhammad Umair Khan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

1 November 2022

Currently, researchers are working to contribute to the emerging fields of cloud computing, edge computing, and distributed systems. The major area of interest is to examine and understand their performance. The major globally leading companies, such...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends and Challenges of IoT in Smart Healthcare Systems, Smart Cities and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,160 Views
25 Pages

7 January 2026

A key component of creating robust and sustainable businesses is the digital transformation of business operations. This study examines the impact of distributed digital technology, namely cloud computing and blockchain technology, on an auditor&rsqu...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
191 Views
26 Pages

1 October 2026

With the rapid development of the Internet, the number of requests in cloud computing is increasing rapidly. However, cloud resources are limited, and the surge in demand will lead to performance degradation in cloud services. To improve the performa...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,363 Views
39 Pages

7 March 2022

The development of resource-intensive, distributed, real-time applications like Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) backends entails a variety of challenges, some of which have been extensively studied. Despite some advancements, the development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,038 Views
27 Pages

13 September 2024

In cloud-based Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) sensor data management, we are confronted with two primary challenges. First, the development of efficient storage mechanisms capable of handling the enormous volume of data generated by these sensors...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed and Single-Point Fiber Optic Sensors: Applications and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,160 Views
18 Pages

An Optimal Network-Aware Scheduling Technique for Distributed Deep Learning in Distributed HPC Platforms

  • Sangkwon Lee,
  • Syed Asif Raza Shah,
  • Woojin Seok,
  • Jeonghoon Moon and ,
  • Kihyeon Kim and
  • Syed Hasnain Raza Shah
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Deep learning is a growing technique used to solve complex artificial intelligence (AI) problems. Large-scale deep learning has become a significant issue as a result of the expansion of datasets and the complexity of deep learning models. For traini...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied AI-Based Platform Technology and Application, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,334 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2022

With advances in remote sensing, massive amounts of remotely sensed data can be harnessed to support land use/land cover (LULC) change studies over larger scales and longer terms. However, a big challenge is missing data as a result of poor weather c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
10,559 Views
28 Pages

13 October 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken us by storm, helping us to make decisions in everything we do, even in finding our “true love” and the “significant other”. While 5G promises us high-speed mobile internet, 6G pledges to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Developing “Smartness” in Emerging Environments and Applications with Focus on the Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,296 Views
35 Pages

Bio-Inspired Multiobjective Optimization for Designing Content Distribution Networks

  • Gerardo Goñi,
  • Sergio Nesmachnow,
  • Diego Rossit,
  • Pedro Moreno-Bernal and
  • Andrei Tchernykh

This article studies the effective design of content distribution networks over cloud computing platforms. This problem is relevant nowadays to provide fast and reliable access to content on the internet. A bio-inspired evolutionary multiobjective op...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization 2024)
  • Review
  • Open Access

Energy-Aware AI-Enabled Intelligent Sensing Systems for IoT and Edge–Cloud Architectures

  • Zhanar Mukash,
  • Dina Bakranova,
  • Abay Serikkanov,
  • Nurlan Bakranov and
  • Binara Imankulova

2 November 2026

AI-enabled intelligent sensing systems are increasingly used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, edge–cloud environments, industrial automation, and cyber-physical systems. Their design, however, requires simultaneous consideration of sen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge AI for Smart Sensor Systems)

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