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  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,502 Views
35 Pages

20 September 2025

Quantum computers are emerging as a major tool in the computation field, leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics to solve specific problems currently beyond the capability of classical computers. This technology holds significant promise in ed...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,442 Views
26 Pages

Task Scheduling Approach in Cloud Computing Environment Using Hybrid Differential Evolution

  • Mohamed Abdel-Basset,
  • Reda Mohamed,
  • Waleed Abd Elkhalik,
  • Marwa Sharawi and
  • Karam M. Sallam

31 October 2022

Task scheduling is one of the most significant challenges in the cloud computing environment and has attracted the attention of various researchers over the last decades, in order to achieve cost-effective execution and improve resource utilization....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning, Optimization, and Control Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Citations
12,280 Views
16 Pages

A Joint Resource Allocation, Security with Efficient Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing Using Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques

  • Prasanta Kumar Bal,
  • Sudhir Kumar Mohapatra,
  • Tapan Kumar Das,
  • Kathiravan Srinivasan and
  • Yuh-Chung Hu

6 February 2022

The rapid growth of cloud computing environment with many clients ranging from personal users to big corporate or business houses has become a challenge for cloud organizations to handle the massive volume of data and various resources in the cloud....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
8,168 Views
40 Pages

14 November 2019

The cloud computing paradigm, as a novel computing resources delivery platform, has significantly impacted society with the concept of on-demand resource utilization through virtualization technology. Virtualization enables the usage of available phy...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,352 Views
37 Pages

18 October 2023

Recently, the dynamic distribution of resources and task scheduling has played a critical role in cloud computing to achieve maximum storage and performance. The allocation of computational tasks in the cloud is a complicated process that can be affe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Operations Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,119 Views
23 Pages

30 July 2025

Workflow scheduling in cloud computing is attracting increasing attention. Cloud computing can assign tasks to available virtual machine resources in cloud data centers according to scheduling strategies, providing a powerful computing platform for t...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,189 Views
25 Pages

Smart Hybrid Manufacturing Control Using Cloud Computing and the Internet-of-Things

  • Jonnro Erasmus,
  • Paul Grefen,
  • Irene Vanderfeesten and
  • Konstantinos Traganos

3 December 2018

Industry 4.0 is expected to deliver significant gains in productivity by assimilating several technological advancements including cloud computing, the Internet-of-Things, and smart devices. However, it is unclear how these technologies should be lev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,205 Views
17 Pages

Cloud–Edge Hybrid Computing Architecture for Large-Scale Scientific Facilities Augmented with an Intelligent Scheduling System

  • Jing Ye,
  • Chunpeng Wang,
  • Jige Chen,
  • Rongzheng Wan and ,
  • Xiaoyun Li,
  • Alessandro Sepe and
  • Renzhong Tai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 April 2023

Synchrotron radiation sources are widely used in interdisciplinary research, generating an enormous amount of data while posing serious challenges to the storage, processing, and analysis capabilities of the large-scale scientific facilities worldwid...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in AI-Empowered Beamline Automation and Data Science in Advanced Photon Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
6,722 Views
23 Pages

HWACOA Scheduler: Hybrid Weighted Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing

  • Chirag Chandrashekar,
  • Pradeep Krishnadoss,
  • Vijayakumar Kedalu Poornachary,
  • Balasundaram Ananthakrishnan and
  • Kumar Rangasamy

8 March 2023

With the advancement of technology and time, people have always sought to solve problems in the most efficient and quickest way possible. Since the introduction of the cloud computing environment along with many different sub-substructures such as ta...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,739 Views
25 Pages

15 July 2021

To improve the service quality of cloud computing, and aiming at the characteristics of resource scheduling optimization problems, this paper proposes a hybrid multi-objective bat algorithm. To prevent the algorithm from falling into a local minimum,...

(This article belongs to the Section Resources and Sustainable Utilization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
534 Views
16 Pages

Hybrid Neuromorphic Edge Computing and Quantum Cloud Optimization for Martian Swarm Robot Survival and Map Recovery

  • Chandan Sheikder,
  • Weimin Zhang,
  • Xiaopeng Chen,
  • Shicheng Fan and ,
  • Tairan Li and
  • Haotong He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Martian dust storms cut off communication and break standard robot navigation. We built a hybrid system that keeps robot swarms alive during these blackouts and recovers their data quickly. Our rovers use Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on their own e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,015 Views
18 Pages

Comparative Analysis of 5G Mobile Communication Network Architectures

  • Woosik Lee,
  • Eun Suk Suh,
  • Woo Young Kwak and
  • Hoon Han

4 April 2020

Mobile communication technology is evolving from 4G to 5G. Compared to previous generations, 5G has the capability to implement latency-critical services, such as autonomous driving, real-time AI on handheld devices and remote drone control. Multi-ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling, Dimensioning and Optimization of 5G Communication Networks, Resources and Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Citations
13,895 Views
23 Pages

4 March 2024

Dynamic load balancing in cloud computing is crucial for efficiently distributing workloads across available resources, ensuring optimal performance. This research introduces a novel dynamic load-balancing approach that leverages a deep learning mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis, Design and Industrial Application of Intelligent Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,623 Views
29 Pages

IDN-MOTSCC: Integration of Deep Neural Network with Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Model for Multi-Objective Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing

  • Mohit Kumar,
  • Rama Kant,
  • Brijesh Kumar Gupta,
  • Azhar Shadab and ,
  • Ashwani Kumar and
  • Krishna Kant
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 January 2026

Cloud computing covers a wide range of practical applications and diverse domains, yet resource scheduling and task scheduling remain significant challenges. To address this, different task scheduling algorithms are implemented across various computi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Operations Research: Trends and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,902 Views
19 Pages

12 February 2025

With the increasing volume of scientific computation data and the advancement of computer performance, scientific computation is becoming more dependent on the powerful computing capabilities of cloud computing. On cloud platforms, tasks in scientifi...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
14,769 Views
28 Pages

Edge-Oriented Computing: A Survey on Research and Use Cases

  • Nour Alhuda Sulieman,
  • Lorenzo Ricciardi Celsi,
  • Wei Li,
  • Albert Zomaya and
  • Massimo Villari

10 January 2022

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm such that client data are processed at the periphery of the network, as close as possible to the originating source. Since the 21st century has come to be known as the century of data due to the rapi...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,022 Views
36 Pages

22 June 2022

Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) scheduling over cloud computing resources called Cloud Bag-of-Tasks Scheduling (CBS) problem, which is a well-known NP-hard optimization problem. Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) is an effective method for CBS problems, which sti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,296 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Task Scheduling Algorithms in Heterogeneous Computing Environments

  • Roxana-Gabriela Stan,
  • Lidia Băjenaru,
  • Cătălin Negru and
  • Florin Pop

2 September 2021

This work establishes a set of methodologies to evaluate the performance of any task scheduling policy in heterogeneous computing contexts. We formally state a scheduling model for hybrid edge–cloud computing ecosystems and conduct simulation-based e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,802 Views
20 Pages

Hybrid Cloud-Based Information and Control System Using LSTM-DNN Neural Networks for Optimization of Metallurgical Production

  • Kuldashbay Avazov,
  • Jasur Sevinov,
  • Barnokhon Temerbekova,
  • Gulnora Bekimbetova and ,
  • Ulugbek Mamanazarov,
  • Akmalbek Abdusalomov and
  • Young Im Cho
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 July 2025

A methodology for detecting systematic errors in sets of equally accurate, uncorrelated, aggregate measurements is proposed and applied within the automatic real-time dispatch control system of a copper concentrator plant (CCP) to refine the technica...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,631 Views
49 Pages

Reinforcement Learning-Guided Hybrid Metaheuristic for Energy-Aware Load Balancing in Cloud Environments

  • Yousef Sanjalawe,
  • Salam Al-E’mari,
  • Budoor Allehyani and
  • Sharif Naser Makhadmeh

13 November 2025

Cloud computing has transformed modern IT infrastructure by enabling scalable, on-demand access to virtualized resources. However, the rapid growth of cloud services has intensified energy consumption across data centres, increasing operational costs...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,660 Views
55 Pages

Achieving Reliability in Cloud Computing by a Novel Hybrid Approach

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

9 February 2023

Cloud computing (CC) benefits and opportunities are among the fastest growing technologies in the computer industry. Cloud computing’s challenges include resource allocation, security, quality of service, availability, privacy, data management,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Systems and Neural Networks for Engineering Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,225 Views
40 Pages

A Survey on Video Big Data Analytics: Architecture, Technologies, and Open Research Challenges

  • Thi-Thu-Trang Do,
  • Quyet-Thang Huynh,
  • Kyungbaek Kim and
  • Van-Quyet Nguyen

21 July 2025

The exponential growth of video data across domains such as surveillance, transportation, and healthcare has raised critical challenges in scalability, real-time processing, and privacy preservation. While existing studies have addressed individual a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining: Emerging Trends and Applications)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
134 Citations
12,465 Views
19 Pages

9 February 2022

In recent years, research into blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown rapidly due to an increase in media coverage. Many different blockchain applications and platforms have been developed for different purposes, such as foo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain for Internet of Things Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,706 Views
17 Pages

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the widespread use of electric vehicles (EV), vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has sparked considerable discussion as an energy-management technology. Due to the inherently high maneuverability of EVs, V2...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,782 Views
25 Pages

The Internet of Cooperative Agents Architecture (X-IoCA) for Robots, Hybrid Sensor Networks, and MEC Centers in Complex Environments: A Search and Rescue Case Study

  • Juan Bravo-Arrabal,
  • Manuel Toscano-Moreno,
  • J. J. Fernandez-Lozano,
  • Anthony Mandow and ,
  • Jose Antonio Gomez-Ruiz and
  • Alfonso García-Cerezo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 November 2021

Cloud robotics and advanced communications can foster a step-change in cooperative robots and hybrid wireless sensor networks (H-WSN) for demanding environments (e.g., disaster response, mining, demolition, and nuclear sites) by enabling the timely s...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
748 Views
23 Pages

26 December 2025

We propose a Hybrid Parallel Temporal–Spatial CNN-LSTM (HPTS-CL) architecture for optimized indoor environment modeling in sports halls, addressing the computational and scalability challenges of high-resolution spatiotemporal data processing....

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
617 Views
20 Pages

20 April 2026

Task scheduling in cloud computing environments is a complex NP-hard problem that requires maximizing resource utilization while satisfying quality-of-service (QoS) constraints. Traditional meta-heuristic algorithms often become stuck in local optima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary and Swarm Computing for Emerging Applications (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
221 Views
32 Pages

15 October 2026

Consensus protocols for computer networks, such as Raft and Paxos, are typically deployed in cloud computing environments and assume that participating nodes possess fixed, known identities for performing log replication. This identity assumption pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
5,341 Views
21 Pages

A Multi-Objective Task Scheduling Strategy for Intelligent Production Line Based on Cloud-Fog Computing

  • Zhenyu Yin,
  • Fulong Xu,
  • Yue Li,
  • Chao Fan and ,
  • Feiqing Zhang,
  • Guangjie Han and
  • Yuanguo Bi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 February 2022

With the widespread use of industrial Internet technology in intelligent production lines, the number of task requests generated by smart terminals is growing exponentially. Achieving rapid response to these massive tasks becomes crucial. In this pap...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,813 Views
22 Pages

A Light Vehicle License-Plate-Recognition System Based on Hybrid Edge–Cloud Computing

  • Jiancai Leng,
  • Xinyi Chen,
  • Jinzhao Zhao,
  • Chongfeng Wang and ,
  • Jianqun Zhu,
  • Yihao Yan,
  • Jiaqi Zhao,
  • Weiyou Shi,
  • Zhaoxin Zhu and
  • Fangzhou Xu
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

2 November 2023

With the world moving towards low-carbon and environmentally friendly development, the rapid growth of new-energy vehicles is evident. The utilization of deep-learning-based license-plate-recognition (LPR) algorithms has become widespread. However, e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies in Edge Computing and Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,211 Views
40 Pages

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized connected devices, with applications in healthcare, data analytics, and smart cities. For time-sensitive applications, 5G wireless networks provide ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Key Enabling Technologies for Beyond 5G Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,661 Views
15 Pages

11 July 2018

Cloud computing plays a major role in sharing data and resources to other devices through data outsourcing. During sharing resources, it is a challenging task to provide access control and secure write operations. The main issue is to provide secure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
895 Views
11 Pages

This paper extends the on-going analysis of the electronic markets hypothesis by offering a complementary hypothesis, namely, the electronic hybrids hypothesis. In a seminal 1987 article, Malone, Yates, and Benjamin predicted an overall shift toward...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,480 Views
28 Pages

17 August 2023

Scheduling jobs within a cloud environment is a critical area of research that necessitates meticulous analysis. It entails the challenge of optimally assigning jobs to various cloud servers, each with different capabilities, and is classified as a n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,582 Views
22 Pages

28 June 2022

The rapid development of Cloud Computing (CC) has led to the release of many services in the cloud environment. Service composition awareness of Quality of Service (QoS) is a significant challenge in CC. A single service in the cloud environment cann...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,263 Views
43 Pages

Defending the Distributed Skies: A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Arena of Multi-Cloud Environment

  • Labib Hasan Bayzid,
  • Tonny Shekha Kar,
  • Mohammad Tariqul Islam,
  • Md. Shabiul Islam and
  • Firoz Ahmed

28 November 2025

The rapid implementation of multi-cloud architectures, such as the integration of services from multiple cloud providers, gives organizations enhanced flexibility, resilience, and vendor independence. However, the multi-cloud model presents complicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,212 Views
20 Pages

Prediction of Parking Space Availability Using Improved MAT-LSTM Network

  • Feizhou Zhang,
  • Ke Shang,
  • Lei Yan,
  • Haijing Nan and
  • Zicong Miao

The prediction of parking space availability plays a crucial role in information systems providing parking guidance. However, controversy persists regarding the efficiency and accuracy of mainstream time series prediction methods, such as convolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,608 Views
22 Pages

Hybrid HP-BOA: An Optimized Framework for Reliable Storage of Cloud Data Using Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Algorithm

  • Adnan Tahir,
  • Fei Chen,
  • Bashir Hayat,
  • Qaisar Shaheen and ,
  • Zhong Ming,
  • Arshad Ahmad,
  • Ki-Il Kim and
  • Byung Hyun Lim
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 April 2023

The prime objective of the cloud data storage process is to make the service, irrespective of being infinitely extensible, a more reliable storage and low-cost model that also encourages different data storage types. Owing to the storage process, it...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,526 Views
21 Pages

The hybrid cloud has attracted more and more attention from various fields by combining the benefits of both private and public clouds. Task scheduling is still a challenging open issue to optimize user satisfaction and resource efficiency for provid...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,971 Views
22 Pages

Adapting the GACT-X Aligner to Accelerate Minimap2 in an FPGA Cloud Instance

  • Carolina Teng,
  • Renan Weege Achjian,
  • Jiang Chau Wang and
  • Fernando Josepetti Fonseca

30 March 2023

In genomic analysis, long reads are an emerging type of data processed by assembly algorithms to recover the complete genome sample. They are, on average, one or two orders of magnitude longer than short reads from the previous generation, which prov...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • 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
2 Citations
1,172 Views
22 Pages

20 January 2026

Container-based cloud platforms enable flexible and lightweight application deployment, yet container scheduling remains challenged by resource fragmentation, load imbalance, excessive energy consumption, and service-level agreement (SLA) violations....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,938 Views
26 Pages

Toward an Integrated IoT–Edge Computing Framework for Smart Stadium Development

  • Nattawat Pattarawetwong,
  • Charuay Savithi and
  • Arisaphat Suttidee

Large sports stadiums require robust real-time monitoring due to high crowd density, complex spatial configurations, and limited network infrastructure. This research evaluates a hybrid edge–cloud architecture implemented in a national stadium...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data, Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
411 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2026

AC/DC hybrid building microgrids require an energy management system (EMS) that coordinates distributed energy resources while maintaining fast local responses to communication and device faults. This study proposes a knowledge-graph-enhanced edge-cl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control and Management Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings)
  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
15,438 Views
52 Pages

15 March 2025

Blockchain-based data storage methods offer strong data integrity, decentralized security, and transparent access control but also face scalability challenges, high computational costs, and complex data management. This study provides a comprehensive...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
228 Citations
46,422 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
44 Citations
12,143 Views
39 Pages

Cloudlet Scheduling by Hybridized Monarch Butterfly Optimization Algorithm

  • Ivana Strumberger,
  • Milan Tuba,
  • Nebojsa Bacanin and
  • Eva Tuba

Cloud computing technology enables efficient utilization of available physical resources through the virtualization where different clients share the same underlying physical hardware infrastructure. By utilizing the cloud computing concept, distribu...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Services and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,915 Views
14 Pages

Secure Multi-Level Privacy-Protection Scheme for Securing Private Data over 5G-Enabled Hybrid Cloud IoT Networks

  • Anil Kumar Budati,
  • Sridhar Reddy Vulapula,
  • Syed Bilal Hussian Shah,
  • Anas Al-Tirawi and
  • Anil Carie

The hybrid cloud is a secure alternative for enterprises to exploit the benefits of cloud computing to overcome the privacy and security concerns of data in IoT networks. However, in hybrid cloud IoT, sensitive items such as keys in the private cloud...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,673 Views
20 Pages

Big Data Handling Approach for Unauthorized Cloud Computing Access

  • Abdul Razaque,
  • Nazerke Shaldanbayeva,
  • Bandar Alotaibi,
  • Munif Alotaibi and ,
  • Akhmetov Murat and
  • Aziz Alotaibi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Nowadays, cloud computing is one of the important and rapidly growing services; its capabilities and applications have been extended to various areas of life. Cloud computing systems face many security issues, such as scalability, integrity, confiden...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Privacy-Preservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
8,875 Views
21 Pages

Cloud–Fog–Based Smart Grid Model for Efficient Resource Management

  • Saman Zahoor,
  • Sakeena Javaid,
  • Nadeem Javaid,
  • Mahmood Ashraf and ,
  • Farruh Ishmanov and
  • Muhammad Khalil Afzal
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 June 2018

A smart grid (SG) is a modernized electric grid that enhances the reliability, efficiency, sustainability, and economics of electricity services. Moreover, it plays a vital role in modern energy infrastructure. The core challenge faced by SGs is how...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 5G Mobile Services and Scenarios: Challenges and Solutions)

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