Yogesh Kumar^1,*, Jitender Kumar¹, Poonam Sheoran²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5785-5800, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.039276 - 29 April 2023

Abstract On-demand availability and resource elasticity features of Cloud computing have attracted the focus of various research domains. Mobile cloud computing is one of these domains where complex computation tasks are offloaded to the cloud resources to augment mobile devices’ cognitive capacity. However, the flexible provisioning of cloud resources is hindered by uncertain offloading workloads and significant setup time of cloud virtual machines (VMs). Furthermore, any delays at the cloud end would further aggravate the miseries of real-time tasks. To resolve these issues, this paper proposes an auto-scaling framework (ACF) that strives to maintain the quality… More >

Mohammad Aldossary^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 3531-3562, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017477 - 06 May 2021

Abstract With the striking rise in penetration of Cloud Computing, energy consumption is considered as one of the key cost factors that need to be managed within cloud providers’ infrastructures. Subsequently, recent approaches and strategies based on reactive and proactive methods have been developed for managing cloud computing resources, where the energy consumption and the operational costs are minimized. However, to make better cost decisions in these strategies, the performance and energy awareness should be supported at both Physical Machine (PM) and Virtual Machine (VM) levels. Therefore, in this paper, a novel hybrid approach is proposed, which… More >

Mohammad Aldossary^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 461-476, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014975 - 18 January 2021

Abstract In a cloud environment, Virtual Machines (VMs) consolidation and resource provisioning are used to address the issues of workload fluctuations. VM consolidation aims to move the VMs from one host to another in order to reduce the number of active hosts and save power. Whereas resource provisioning attempts to provide additional resource capacity to the VMs as needed in order to meet Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. However, these techniques have a set of limitations in terms of the additional costs related to migration and scaling time, and energy overhead that need further consideration. Therefore, More >

Abid Nisar¹, Waheed Iqbal^1,*, Fawaz Bokhari¹, Faisal Bukhari¹, Khaled Almustafa²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 353-365, 2020, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000159

Abstract The adaptive resource provisioning of cloud-hosted applications is enabled to provide a better quality of services to the users of applications. Most of the cloud-hosted applications follow the multi-tier architecture model. However, it is challenging to adaptively provision the resources of multi-tier applications. In this paper, we propose an auto-scaling method to dynamically scale resources for multi-tier web applications. The proposed method exploits the horizontal scaling at the web server tier and vertical scaling at the database tier dynamically to maintain response time guarantees. We evaluated our proposed method on Amazon Web Services using a More >