Special issue published: "Advances in Mobile Cloud Computing and Social Networking"

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems 18(3/4) 2017

• Critical analysis of load balancing strategies for cloud environment
• Utility maximisation-based game theoretic approach for resource allocation in clouds 
• Extraction of volumetric features using 2.5D and 3D algorithms 
• Hybrid load balancing approach for cloud environment 
• A queuing approach to model power and performance trade-off with maintenance overhead of an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud 
• Chinese collaboration network data recompiled based on weights and labels 
• eduCloud: a VM communication aware, migration efficient cloud for scientific computing 
• A novel approach to improve quality of service in MANET using cache update scheme for on-demand protocol 
• Cost and energy optimisation of cloud data centres through dual VM modes - activation and passivation