Cloud Broker and Cloudlet for Workflow Scheduling

Min Chen is a professor in School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He is Chair of IEEE Computer Society (CS) Special Technical Communities (STC) on Big Data. He was an assistant professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU) from Sep. 2009 to Feb. 2012.  He serves as editor or associate editor for Information Sciences, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IET Communications, IET Networks, Wiley I. J. of Security and Communication Networks, Journal of Internet Technology, KSII Trans. Internet and Information Systems, International Journal of Sensor Networks. He is managing editor for IJAACS and IJART. He is a Guest Editor for IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, etc. He is Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2012-Communications Theory Symposium, and Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2013-Wireless Networks Symposium. He is General Co-Chair for the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT-2012) and Mobimedia 2015. He is General Vice Chair for Tridentcom 2014. He is Keynote Speaker for CyberC 2012, Mobiquitous 2012 and Cloudcomp 2015. He is a TPC member for IEEE INFOCOM 2014. He has more than 260 paper publications, including 100+ SCI papers, 50+ IEEE Trans./Journal papers, 6 ISI highly cited papers and 1 hot paper. He has published a book on IoT: OPNET IoT Simulation (2015) with HUST Presss, and a book on big data: Big Data Related Technologies (2014) with Springer Series in Computer Science. His Google Scholars Citations reached 5,200+ with an h-index of 34. His top paper was cited 640 times, while his top book was cited 420 times as of Aug 2015. He is an IEEE Senior Member since 2009. His research focuses on Internet of Things, Mobile Cloud, Body Area Networks, Emotion-aware Computing, Healthcare Big Data, Cyber Physical Systems, and Robotics, etc.

Patrizio Dazzi is a researcher at the Information Science and Technologies Institute (part of the Italian National Research Council) working on high performance computing and highly distributed systems.  He graduated in Computer Science in 2003 at the University of Pisa, in 2004 completed an MSc in Computer Technologies, and was awarded a PhD in 2008 with a thesis titled "Tools and Models for High Level Parallel and Grid Programming".   In 2009 he became a researcher at ISTI-CNR and has been a permanent researcher there since 2012.   He is currently working in the EU Contrail Project, the goal of which is to design, implement, evaluate and promote an open source system for Cloud Federations. The CNR part of this is mainly involved in the management in federation of clouds.

1 Integrated Cloud Broker System and Its Experimental Evaluation.

1.1 Cloud Broker System Overview. 1.2 VM Resource management schemes in cloud brokers. 1.3 Adaptive Resource Collaboration Framework [13]. 1.4 Science Gateway Overview. 1.5 Scientific Workflow Applications. 1.6 Conventional service broker for scientific application in cloud. 1.7 Cost Adaptive Resource Management in Science Gateway. 1.8 Workflow Scheduling Scheme with Division Policy. 1.9 Test Environments for Performance Evaluation on resource management schemes of the Science Gateway. 1.10 Performance Evaluation on resource management schemes of Science Gateway.

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2 VM Placement via Resource Brokers in a Cloud Datacenter.

2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Computing-aware Initial VM Placement. 2.3 VM reallocation based on resource utilization-aware VM consolidation and dispersion. 2.4 Reference.

3 Cost Adaptive Workflow Resource Broker in Cloud. 3.1 Introduction         . 3.2 Background and Related Works. 3.3 Objectives. 3.4 Proposed System Model for Cost-Adaptive Resource Management Scheme. 3.5 Proposed Cost Adaptive Workflow Scheduling Scheme. 3.6 Proposed Marginal Cost based Resource Provisioning Scheme. 3.7 Experiment and Results. 3.8 Conclusions. 3.9 Reference.

4 A Cloud Broker System for Connected Car Services with an Integrated Simulation Framework.

4.1 Introduction. 4.2 A Cloud Broker System for V2C Connected Car Service Offloading. 4.3 An Integrated Road Traffic-Network-Cloud Simulation Framework for V2C Connected Car Services Using a Cloud Broker System            . 4.4 Conclusion. Reference.

5 Mobile Device as Cloud Broker for Computation Offloading at Cloudlets.

5.1 Introduction. 5.2 New architecture of computation offloading at cloudlet. 5.3 A study on the OCS Mode. 5.4 Allocation problem in mobile device broker. 5.5 Reference.     

6  Opportunistic Task Scheduling over Co-Located Clouds.

6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Background and related works. 6.3 Opportunistic Task Scheduling over Co-Located Clouds Mode. 6.4 OSCC Mode. 6.5 Analysis and Optimization for OSCC Mode. 6.6 Performance Evaluation. 6.7 References.

7 Mobility-Aware Resource Scheduling Cloudlets in Mobile Environment.

7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Resource scheduling based on mobility-aware Caching. 7.3 Resource scheduling based on mobility-aware computation offloading. 7.4 Incentive Design for Caching and Computation Offloading. 7.5 References.

8 Machine-learning based approaches for cloud brokering.

8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Different ways to achieve machine learning. 8.3 Different methodologies for machine learning. 8.4 Machine Learning and Cloud Brokering.

8.5 The current landscape of Machine-learning enabled cloud brokering approaches.

8.6 Conclusion.

8.7 References