Cloud-based Technologies

Cloud-based technologies deliver computing services, including networking, servers, storage, databases, software, and analytics over the Internet.

They are part of our daily routine, not only in a work or academic setting to share documents and data with our colleagues, but also in medical, and public institutions environments. As the demand for these technologies increases, there are some challenges that need to be addressed.

The aim of this collection is to collate the latest research performed in Cloud-based technologies in order to improve their availability, scalability and cost-effectiveness. We are looking for articles that propose solutions to current challenges, such as data security and privacy, performance challenges, interoperability and flexibility, among others.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Computing continuum: Cloud, Fog, Edge, IoT
• Virtualization and container technologies
• Meta-operating systems
• Runtime environments
• Middleware technologies and services
• Resource provisioning
• Scheduling and load balancing
• Performance analysis
• Green computing
• Artificial intelligence and big data services
• Domain-specific programming languages
• Domain-specific user interfaces
• Software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops)
   

This Collection includes a Research Spotlight on the article: "Internet of Things Workload Emulation for Data Centers" and you can read our blog post on the topic here.

 Collection advisors: Pedro Antonio García López (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain), Georgios Kousiouris (Harokopio University, Greece), Fernando Aguilar Gomez (University of Cantabria, Spain), Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Germany)