Cloud computing is a growing service computing trend that offers users a range of on-demand variety of services from applications, processing capability, and storage based on the concept of the “Pay-As-PerUse” model. Organizations from every sector are now realizing the benefits offered by...

The emergence of the cloud is heightening the demands on the network in terms of bandwidth, ubiquity, reliability, latency, and route control. Unfortunately, the current architecture was not designed to offer full support for all of these services or to permit money to flow through it. Instead...

This paper considers a traditional problem of resource allocation: scheduling jobs on machines. One such recent application is cloud computing, where jobs arrive in an online fashion with capacity requirements and need to be immediately scheduled on physical machines in data centers. It is often...