Browsing by Author "Rayes, Ammar"
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A blockchain-based IoT networks-on-demand protocol for responsive smart city applications
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference)This paper proposes a distributed resource sharing protocol for enabling dynamic deployment of IoT networks on-demand in smart cities. The proposed protocol leverages Blockchain technology to: (i) enable distributed and ... -
Blockchains for Scalable IoT Management, Access, and Accountability
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)The articles in this special section focuses on blockchain for scalable Internet of Things (IoT) management, access, and accountability. The articles highlight new blockchain architectures and techniques that can be leveraged ... -
Efficient datacenter resource utilization through cloud resource overcommitment
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference)We propose an efficient resource allocation framework for overcommitted clouds that makes great energy savings by 1) minimizing PM overloads via resource usage prediction, and 2) reducing the number of active PMs via ... -
Enabling smart cloud services through remote sensing: An internet of everything enabler
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Article)The recent emergence and success of cloud-based services has empowered remote sensing and made it very possible. Cloud-assisted remote sensing (CARS) enables distributed sensory data collection, global resource and data ... -
Energy-efficient cloud resource management
( IEEE , 2014 , Conference)We propose a resource management framework that reduces energy consumption in cloud data centers. The proposed framework predicts the number of virtual machine requests along with their amounts of CPU and memory resources, ... -
Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation and Provisioning Framework for Cloud Data Centers
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)Energy efficiency has recently become a major issue in large data centers due to financial and environmental concerns. This paper proposes an integrated energy-Aware resource provisioning framework for cloud data centers. ... -
Exploiting Task Elasticity and Price Heterogeneity for Maximizing Cloud Computing Profits
( IEEE Computer Society , 2018 , Article)This paper exploits cloud task elasticity and price heterogeneity to propose an online resource management framework that maximizes cloud profits while minimizing energy expenses. This is done by reducing the duration ... -
IoTShare: A Blockchain-Enabled IoT Resource Sharing On-Demand Protocol for Smart City Situation-Awareness Applications
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)We propose a blockchain-based, distributed protocol for enabling the deployment of Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks on-demand on top of IoT devices. Specifically, the proposed protocol leverages blockchain technology to: ... -
Malicious-proof and fair credit-based resource allocation techniques for DSA systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)We propose a credit-based resource allocation technique for dynamic spectrum access that is robust against malicious and selfish behaviors and ensures good overall system fairness performance while also allowing spectrum ... -
Online assignment and placement of cloud task requests with heterogeneous requirements
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference)Managing cloud resources in a way that reduces the consumed energy while also meeting clients demands is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an energy-aware resource allocation framework that: i) places the ... -
Overcoming user selfishness in DSA systems through credit-based resource allocation
( IEEE , 2014 , Conference)We propose a credit-based resource allocation technique for wireless systems with dynamic spectrum access (DSA) capability, such as multichannel wireless sensor networks. The proposed technique is robust against selfish ... -
Release-time aware VM placement
( IEEE , 2014 , Conference)Consolidating virtual machines (VMs) on as few physical machines (PMs) as possible so as to turn into sleep as many PMs as possible can make significant energy savings in cloud centers. Although traditional online bin ... -
Software-defined networking security: Pros and cons
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)Software-defined networking (SDN) is a new networking paradigm that decouples the forwarding and control planes, traditionally coupled with one another, while adopting a logically centralized architecture aiming to increase ... -
Toward energy-efficient cloud computing: Prediction, consolidation, and overcommitment
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)Energy consumption has become a significant concern for cloud service providers due to financial as well as environmental factors. As a result, cloud service providers are seeking innovative ways that allow them to reduce ...