Hantao Huang, Zhifang Zhang^*, Zhenhua Wu, Yao Liu

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.18, No.4, pp. 409-423, 2024, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2024.048597

Abstract In this paper, recycled carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) mixture (CFRP-M, including recycled carbon fiber and powder) and refined recycled CFRP fiber (CFRP-F, mostly recycled carbon fiber) were added to cement to study the influence of addition on the flexural strength, compressive strength, and fluidity of cement-based materials. The recycled CFRP were prepared by mechanically processing the prepreg scraps generated during the manufacture of CFRP products. For comparison, commercial carbon fiber powder was also added in cement and the performance was compared to that of addition of recycled CFRP. The hydration products and strengthening mechanism… More >

Nidhika Chauhan¹, Navneet Kaur², Kamaljit Singh Saini², Sahil Verma³, Abdulatif Alabdulatif⁴, Ruba Abu Khurma^5,7, Maribel Garcia-Arenas⁶, Pedro A. Castillo^6,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.3, pp. 571-608, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2024.042690

Abstract As cloud computing usage grows, cloud data centers play an increasingly important role. To maximize resource utilization, ensure service quality, and enhance system performance, it is crucial to allocate tasks and manage performance effectively. The purpose of this study is to provide an extensive analysis of task allocation and performance management techniques employed in cloud data centers. The aim is to systematically categorize and organize previous research by identifying the cloud computing methodologies, categories, and gaps. A literature review was conducted, which included the analysis of 463 task allocations and 480 performance management papers. The… More >

Jixun Gao^1,2, Bingyi Hu², Jialei Liu^3,4,*, Huaichen Wang⁵, Quanzhen Huang¹, Yuanyuan Zhao⁶

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036890

Abstract Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is proposed to solve the needs of Internet of Things (IoT) users for high resource utilization, high reliability and low latency of service requests. However, the backup virtual machine is idle when its primary virtual machine is running normally, which will waste resources. Overbooking the backup virtual machine under the above circumstances can effectively improve resource utilization. First, these virtual machines are deployed into slots randomly, and then some tasks with cooperative relationship are offloaded to virtual machines for processing. Different deployment locations have different resource utilization and average service response… More >

Lenin Babu Russeliah^1,*, R. Adaline Suji², D. Bright Anand³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3925-3938, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034727

Abstract Cloud computing (CC) is developing as a powerful and flexible computational structure for providing ubiquitous service to users. It receives interrelated software and hardware resources in an integrated manner distinct from the classical computational environment. The variation of software and hardware resources were combined and composed as a resource pool. The software no more resided in the single hardware environment, it can be executed on the schedule of resource pools to optimize resource consumption. Optimizing energy consumption in CC environments is the question that allows utilizing several energy conservation approaches for effective resource allocation. This… More >

Mohit Agarwal^1,*, Shikha Gupta²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 6103-6119, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030778

Abstract Task scheduling in highly elastic and dynamic processing environments such as cloud computing have become the most discussed problem among researchers. Task scheduling algorithms are responsible for the allocation of the tasks among the computing resources for their execution, and an inefficient task scheduling algorithm results in under-or over-utilization of the resources, which in turn leads to degradation of the services. Therefore, in the proposed work, load balancing is considered as an important criterion for task scheduling in a cloud computing environment as it can help in reducing the overhead in the critical decision-oriented process.… More >

M. Hema^1,*, S. Kanaga Suba Raja²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 143-156, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024895

Abstract In cloud data centers, the consolidation of workload is one of the phases during which the available hosts are allocated tasks. This phenomenon ensures that the least possible number of hosts is used without compromise in meeting the Service Level Agreement (SLA). To consolidate the workloads, the hosts are segregated into three categories: normal hosts, under-loaded hosts, and overloaded hosts based on their utilization. It is to be noted that the identification of an extensively used host or underloaded host is challenging to accomplish. Threshold values were proposed in the literature to detect this scenario.… More >

R. Swathy^*, B. Vinayagasundaram

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.1, pp. 159-174, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.023706

Abstract This paper proposes an algorithm for scheduling Virtual Machines (VM) with energy saving strategies in the physical servers of cloud data centers. Energy saving strategy along with a solution for productive resource utilization for VM deployment in cloud data centers is modeled by a combination of “Virtual Machine Scheduling using Bayes Theorem” algorithm (VMSBT) and Virtual Machine Migration (VMMIG) algorithm. It is shown that the overall data center’s consumption of energy is minimized with a combination of VMSBT algorithm and Virtual Machine Migration (VMMIG) algorithm. Virtual machine migration between the active physical servers in the… More >

P. Anandraj^1,*, S. Ramabalan²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.42, No.2, pp. 795-811, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.022107

Abstract The design of controllers for robots is a complex system that is to be dealt with several tasks in real time for enabling the robots to function independently. The distributed robotic control system can be used in real time for resolving various challenges such as localization, motion controlling, mapping, route planning, etc. The distributed robotic control system can manage different kinds of heterogenous devices. Designing a distributed robotic control system is a challenging process as it needs to operate effectually under different hardware configurations and varying computational requirements. For instance, scheduling of resources (such as… More >

Zakir Ullah¹, Asif Umer¹, Mahdi Zaree², Jamil Ahmad¹, Faisal Alanazi^3,*, Noor Ul Amin¹, Arif Iqbal Umar¹, Ali Imran Jehangiri¹, Muhammad Adnan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2123-2140, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015445

Abstract Cloud computing is a demanding business platform for services related to the field of IT. The goal of cloud customers is to access resources at a sustainable price, while the goal of cloud suppliers is to maximize their services utilization. Previously, the customers would bid for every single resource type, which was a limitation of cloud resources allocation. To solve these issues, researchers have focused on a combinatorial auction in which the resources are offered by the providers in bundles so that the user bids for their required bundle. Still, in this allocation mechanism, some… More >

Sohan Kumar Pande¹, Sanjaya Kumar Panda², Satyabrata Das¹, Kshira Sagar Sahoo³, Ashish Kr. Luhach⁴, N. Z. Jhanjhi^5,*, Roobaea Alroobaea⁶, Sivakumar Sivanesan⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.2, pp. 2647-2663, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015026

Abstract In recent years, vehicular cloud computing (VCC) has gained vast attention for providing a variety of services by creating virtual machines (VMs). These VMs use the resources that are present in modern smart vehicles. Many studies reported that some of these VMs hosted on the vehicles are overloaded, whereas others are underloaded. As a circumstance, the energy consumption of overloaded vehicles is drastically increased. On the other hand, underloaded vehicles are also drawing considerable energy in the underutilized situation. Therefore, minimizing the energy consumption of the VMs that are hosted by both overloaded and underloaded… More >