Browsing by Subject "Cloud computing"

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    • A monitoring system for distributed edge infrastructures with decentralized coordination 

      Pueyo Centelles, Roger; Selimi, Mennan; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (Springer, 2019)
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      We present the case of monitoring a decentralized and crowdsourced network infrastructure, that needs to be monitored over geographically distributed devices at the network edge. It is a characteristic of the target ...

    • A multi-tenancy model based on resource capabilities and ownership for infrastructure management 

      Garcia Espin, Joan Antoni; Ferrer Riera, Jordi; Figuerola Fernández, Sergi; López Berga, Ester (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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      This paper presents a multi-tenancy model based on infrastructure resource capability virtualisation. The model, namely Resources, Ownership, Roles and Actors or RORA, approaches network and IT infrastructure virtualisation ...

    • A multidimensional control architecture for combined fog-to-cloud systems 

      Masip Bruin, Xavier; Souza, Vitor Barbosa; Marín Tordera, Eva; Ren, Guang-Jie; Jukan, Admela; García Almiñana, Jordi (Springer, 2020)
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      Open Access
      The fog/edge computing concept has set the foundations for the deployment of new services leveraging resources deployed at the edge paving the way for an innovative collaborative model, where end-users may collaborate with ...

    • A non-additive negotiation model for utility computing markets 

      Macías Lloret, Mario; Guitart Fernández, Jordi (2009-09)
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      Market-based resource allocation is a promising model for dealing with the growing Utility Computing environments, such as Grid or Cloud Computing. Agents that represent both service clients and providers meet in a market ...

    • A Novel and scalable naming strategy for IoT scenarios 

      Gómez Cárdenas, Alejandro; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Marín Tordera, Eva; Kahvazadeh, Sarang (2018)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) is a novel paradigm aimed at increasing the benefits brought by the growing Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices population at the edge of the network. F2C is intended to manage the available resources from ...

    • A novel architecture for efficient fog to cloud data management in smart cities 

      Sinaeepourfard, Amir; García Almiñana, Jordi; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Marín Tordera, Eva (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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      Traditional smart city resources management rely on cloud based solutions to provide a centralized and rich set of open data. The advantages of cloud based frameworks are their ubiquity, (almost) unlimited resources capacity, ...

    • A preliminary model for optimal load distribution in heterogeneous smart environments 

      García Almiñana, Jordi; Aguiló Gost, Francisco de Asis L.; Simó Mezquita, Ester; Zaragoza Monroig, M. Luisa; Masip Bruin, Xavier; LU, Yunsong; Prieto González, Andrés; Molinas Ramón, Joan (2019)
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      Smart cities are becoming popular and, with them, a plethora of resources is emerging turning into a massive concentration of computing devices. In such environments, the deployment of a smart resources management system ...

    • A QoS aware services mashup model for cloud computing applications 

      Chen, Yee Ming; Peng, Yi Jen (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2012-12)
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      Purpose: With the popularity of cloud computing, cloud services have become to be application programming platform where users can create new applications mashup(composing) the functionality offered byothers.By composing ...

    • A reference architecture for cloud-edge meta-operating systems enabling cross-domain, data-intensive, ML-assisted applications: architectural overview and key concepts 

      Trakadas, Panagiotis; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Facca, Federico M.; Spantideas, Sotirios T.; Giannopoulos, Anastasios; Kapsalis, Nikolaos C.; Martins, Rui; Bosani, Enrica; Ramon Balasch, Joan; González Prats, Raül; Ntroulias, George; Lyridis, Dimitrios V. (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-11-21)
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      Future data-intensive intelligent applications are required to traverse across the cloudto-edge-to-IoT continuum, where cloud and edge resources elegantly coordinate, alongside sensor networks and data. However, current ...

    • A resilient and distributed near real-time traffic forecasting application for Fog computing environments 

      Pérez, Juan Luis; Gutiérrez Torre, Alberto; Berral García, Josep Lluís; Carrera Pérez, David (Elsevier, 2018-10-01)
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      In this paper we propose an architecture for a city-wide traffic modeling and prediction service based on the Fog Computing paradigm. The work assumes an scenario in which a number of distributed antennas receive data ...

    • A resilient and distributed near real-time traffic forecasting application for Fog computing environments 

      Pérez, Juan L.; Gutierrez-Torre, Alberto; Berral García, Josep Lluís; Carrera, David (Elsevier, 2018-10)
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      Open Access
      In this paper we propose an architecture for a city-wide traffic modeling and prediction service based on the Fog Computing paradigm. The work assumes an scenario in which a number of distributed antennas receive data ...

    • A resource identity management strategy for combined fog-to-cloud systems 

      Gómez Cárdenas, Alejandro; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Marín Tordera, Eva; Kahvazadeh, Sarang; García Almiñana, Jordi (2018)
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      Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) is an emerging architecture intended to manage the resources continuum from far datacenters up to the near edge, putting together the cloud and fog concepts. It aims to obtain both, an efficient utilization ...

    • A risk assessment framework for cloud computing 

      Djemame, Karim; Armstrong, Django; Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Macías Lloret, Mario (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-07-01)
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      Cloud service providers offer access to their resources through formal service level agreements (SLA), and need well-balanced infrastructures so that they can maximise the quality of service (QoS) they offer and minimise ...

    • A secure vault setup for a crypto wallet 

      Ruiz Alcalá, Alexis (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-27)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      In today's digital world, every user needs to store sensitive data, including personal information, cryptographic keys and/or passwords. For user convenience, this data is usually backed up on a cloud hosting so that users ...

    • A service-oriented hybrid access network and clouds architecture 

      Velasco Esteban, Luis Domingo; Contreras, Luis Miguel; Ferraris, Giuseppe; Stavdas, Alexandros; Cugini, Filippo; Wiegand, Manfred; Fernández Palacios, Juan Pedro (2015-04-01)
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      Open Access
      Many telecom operators are deploying their own cloud infrastructure with the two-fold objective of providing cloud services to their customers and enabling network function virtualization. In this article we present an ...

    • A skewness-aware matrix factorization approach for mesh-structured cloud services 

      Fu, Yongquan; Li, Dongsheng; Barlet Ros, Pere; Huang, Chun; Huang, Zhen; Shen, Siqi; Su, Huayou (2019-08)
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      Open Access
      Online cloud services need to fulfill clients' requests scalably and fast. State-of-the-art cloud services are increasingly deployed as a distributed service mesh. Service to service communication is frequent in the mesh. ...

    • A smart drive to future transport systems 

      Marrero Almonte, Ramon; Marín Tordera, Eva; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Nuez Baldomà, Román; Batlle Ferrer, Jaume; Ren, Guang-Jie (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Road transport vehicles (RTV) technologies, features and capacities are rapidly evolving, hence fostering innovative transport paradigms strongly impacting on all involved transport players. Current and unforeseen technological ...

    • A study on the performance of Oracle Grid Engine for computing intensive applications 

      Kolici, Vladi; Herrero, Albert; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Barolli, Leonard (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Computing intensive applications are an important family of applications in distributed computing domain. They have been object of study using different distributed computing paradigms and infrastructures. Such applications ...

    • A study on vulnerability assessment in a virtual corporate environment 

      Kanj Bongard, Alexandre (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-06)
      Bachelor thesis
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    • A survey of communication protocols for internet of things and related challenges of fog and cloud computing integration 

      Dizdarevic, Jasenka; Carpio, Francisco; Jukan, Admela; Masip Bruin, Xavier (2019-01-01)
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      Open Access
      The fast increment in the number of IoT (Internet of Things) devices is accelerating the research on new solutions to make cloud services scalable. In this context, the novel concept of fog computing as well as the combined ...