IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

The MapReduce paradigm and its open source implementation Hadoop are emerging as an important standard for large-scale data-intensive processing in both industry and academia. A MapReduce cluster is typically shared among multiple users with different ...

LDPC codes, LT codes, and digital fountain techniques have received significant attention from both academics and industry in the past few years. By employing the underlying ideas of efficient Belief Propagation (BP) decoding process in LDPC and LT ...

Although many pricing schemes in IaaS platform are already proposed with pay-as-you-go and subscription/spot market policy to guarantee service level agreement, it is still inevitable to suffer from wasteful payment because of coarse-grained pricing ...

As companies shift from desktop applications to cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) applications deployed on public clouds, the competition for end-users by cloud providers offering similar services grows. In order to survive in such a competitive ...