With Internet environment is getting optimized and users preferring mobile communications, Cloud Service Providers (CSP) aim to provide services to users depending on their geographic locations with higher service ava...
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(纸本)9781467321723
With Internet environment is getting optimized and users preferring mobile communications, Cloud Service Providers (CSP) aim to provide services to users depending on their geographic locations with higher service availability and faster access speed. Mobile cloud computing falls into this category, where mobile users can move around and request cloud services at any given geographic locations. To build such a geographic-based mobile cloud services, an effective mobile cloud resource allocation and service request scheduling scheme is highly desired. To this end, the presented service request scheduling scheme takes a comprehensive approach by considering system parameters from both CSP and mobile users such as computation, energy, connectivity, service payment, mobile users' satisfaction, etc. Finally, the performance evaluation of the proposed scheduling scheme is evaluated through simulations where the results show that the presented scheme achieves better system overall gain compared to traditional over-provisioning approaches.
As cloud services need a fair pricing for both service providers and customers. If the price is too high, the customer may not use it, if the price is too low, service providers have less incentive to develop services...
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(纸本)9781467328920
As cloud services need a fair pricing for both service providers and customers. If the price is too high, the customer may not use it, if the price is too low, service providers have less incentive to develop services. This paper proposes a novel pricing framework for cloud services using game theory (Cournot Duopoly, Cartel, and Stackelberg models) and data mining techniques (clustering and classification, e.g., SVM (Support Vector Machine)) to determine optimal prices for cloud services. The framework is dynamic because the price is determined based on recent usage data and available resources, it is also intelligent as it takes into various economic models into consideration, it is benign because it considers two conflicting parties, service providers and consumers, into consideration at the same time, and it is customizable based on various pricing strategies proposed by service providers and usage patterns as exhibited by consumers. Linear regression is used in various game theory models to determine the optimal price. A global pricing union (GPU) framework is proposed to achieve the best practice of game theory models. Based on the proposed technique, this paper applies this pricing framework to a case study in cloud services, and demonstrates that the prices obtained meet the requirement of traditional supply-demand analysis. In other words, the price obtained is good enough.
Distributed storage of data files in different nodes of a network enhances the reliability of the data by offering protection against node failure. In the (N,K),N ≥ K file distribution scheme, from a file F of size |...
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(纸本)9781467307734;9781467307758
Distributed storage of data files in different nodes of a network enhances the reliability of the data by offering protection against node failure. In the (N,K),N ≥ K file distribution scheme, from a file F of size |F|, N segments of size |F|/K are created in such a way that it is possible to reconstruct the entire file, just by accessing any K segments. For the reconstruction scheme to work it is essential that the K segments of the file are stored in nodes that are connected in the network. However in case of node failures the network might become disconnected (i.e., split into several connected components). We focus on node failures that are spatially-correlated or region-based. Such failures are often encountered in disaster situations or natural calamities where only the nodes in the disaster zone are affected. The goal of this research is to devise a file segment distribution scheme so that, even if the network becomes disconnected due to any region fault, at least one of the largest connected components will have at least K distinct file segments with which to reconstruct the entire file. The distribution scheme will also ensure that the total storage requirement is minimized. We provide an optimal solution through Integer Linear Programming and an approximation solution with a guaranteed performance bound of O(ln n) to solve the problem for any arbitrary network. The performance of the approximation algorithm is evaluated by simulation on two real networks.
Cloud computing environments provide a resource pool for customers for their processing, storage and networking needs. It is necessary for customers to choose desirable configuration from vast resources available in t...
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Cloud computing environments provide a resource pool for customers for their processing, storage and networking needs. It is necessary for customers to choose desirable configuration from vast resources available in the cloud. This paper proposes a heuristic model to choose a cloud configuration for efficient use. Trend analysis in data mining is used to predict the future trend and assist provisioning. The model is experimented with Intel power 32 core machine and in Azure cloud. Both environments demonstrated that the proposed model provided effective solutions.
Translation is a multimedia dance performed on a vertical wall filed with the projected image of a lunar surface. Pendaphonics is a low-cost, versatile, and robust motion-sensing hardware-software system integrated wi...
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A story is defined as “an actor(s) taking action(s) that culminates in a resolution(s).” In this paper, we investigate the utility of standard keyword based features, statistical features based on shallow-parsing (s...
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A story is defined as “an actor(s) taking action(s) that culminates in a resolution(s).” In this paper, we investigate the utility of standard keyword based features, statistical features based on shallow-parsing (such as density of POS tags and named entities), and a new set of semantic features to develop a story classifier. This classifier is trained to identify a paragraph as a “story,” if the paragraph contains mostly story(ies). Training data is a collection of expert-coded story and non-story paragraphs from RSS feeds from a list of extremist web sites. Our proposed semantic features are based on suitable aggregation and generalization of ; triplets that can be extracted using a parser. Experimental results show that a model of statistical features alongside memory-based semantic linguistic features achieves the best accuracy with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier.
Proof of retrievability (POR) is a technique for ensuring the integrity of data in outsourced storage *** this paper,we address the construction of POR protocol on the standard model of interactive proof *** propose t...
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Proof of retrievability (POR) is a technique for ensuring the integrity of data in outsourced storage *** this paper,we address the construction of POR protocol on the standard model of interactive proof *** propose the first interactive POR scheme to prevent the fraudulence of prover and the leakage of verified *** also give full proofs of soundness and zero-knowledge properties by constructing a polynomial-time rewindable knowledge extractor under the computational Diffie-Hellman *** particular,the verification process of this scheme requires a low,constant amount of overhead,which minimizes communication complexity.
Rising energy prices, concerns about climate change, and growing political implications in providing reliable access to petroleum has reignited the quest for electrified transportation around the globe. Considering th...
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Rising energy prices, concerns about climate change, and growing political implications in providing reliable access to petroleum has reignited the quest for electrified transportation around the globe. Considering the fact that over 77 million land vehicles were manufactured in 2010 alone, the transformation to an all-electric automotive industry, or even a more realistic 10% electrification by the year 2020, will have a profound impact on the world economy; electricity generation, transmission, and distribution capacity; and environmental priorities.
In a virtualized data center, survivability can be enhanced by creating redundant Virtual Machines (VMs) as backup for VMs such that after VM or server failures, affected services can be quickly switched over to backu...
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In a virtualized data center, survivability can be enhanced by creating redundant Virtual Machines (VMs) as backup for VMs such that after VM or server failures, affected services can be quickly switched over to backup VMs. To enable flexible and efficient resource management, we propose to use a service-aware approach in which multiple correlated VMs and their backups are grouped together to form a Survivable Virtual Infrastructure (SVI) for a service or a tenant. A fundamental problem in such a system is to determine how to map each SVI to a physical data center network such that operational costs are minimized subject to the constraints that each VM's resource requirements are met and bandwidth demands between VMs can be guaranteed before and after failures. This problem can be naturally divided into two sub-problems: VM Placement(VMP) and Virtual Link Mapping (VLM). We present a general optimization framework for this mapping problem. Then we present an efficient algorithm for the VMP sub problem as well as a polynomial-time algorithm that optimally solves the VLM sub problem, which can be used as subroutines in the framework. We also present an effective heuristic algorithm that jointly solves the two sub problems. It has been shown by extensive simulation results based on the real VM data traces collected from the green data center at Syracuse University that compared with the First Fit Descending (FFD) and single shortest path based baseline algorithm, both our VMP+VLM algorithm and joint algorithm significantly reduce the reserved bandwidth, and yield comparable results in terms of the number of active servers.
Evaluating probabilistic constraints plays a very important role in the reliability-based design optimization (RBDO).Traditional Monte Carlo simulation-based approach can provide a high accuracy but with low *** this ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467307864
Evaluating probabilistic constraints plays a very important role in the reliability-based design optimization (RBDO).Traditional Monte Carlo simulation-based approach can provide a high accuracy but with low *** this paper,a subset simulation-based reliability analysis approach is provided to address the efficiency *** method is also compared with the typical MPP-based method.
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