All Outputs (13)

A Task Orientated Requirements Ontology for Cloud Computing Services (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., Chalmers, K., & Pahl, C. (2016). A Task Orientated Requirements Ontology for Cloud Computing Services. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2016) (121-128). https://doi.org/10.5220/0005752301210128

Requirements ontology offers a mechanism to map requirements for cloud computing services to cloud computing resources. Multiple stakeholders can capture and map knowledge in a flexible and efficient manner. The major contribution of the paper is the... Read More about A Task Orientated Requirements Ontology for Cloud Computing Services.

A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Jin, D., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce. In A. Liu, H. C. Chao, E. Bertino, & X. Sun (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Security (296-307). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48671-0_27

MapReduce is a parallel computing programming model designed to process large-scale data. Therefore, the accuracy and efficiency for computing are needed to be assured and speculative execution is an efficient method for calculation of fault toleranc... Read More about A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce.

An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Lu, M., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework. In Cloud Computing and Security (254-263). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48674-1_23

With the increasing of energy demand and electricity price, researchers gain more and more interest among the residential load monitoring. In order to feed back the individual appliance’s energy consumption instead of the whole-house energy consumpti... Read More about An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework.

A Coordination-Based Brokerage Architecture for Multi-cloud Resource Markets (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Aldawood, S., Fowley, F., Pahl, C., Taibi, D., & Liu, X. (2016). A Coordination-Based Brokerage Architecture for Multi-cloud Resource Markets. In IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops (FiCloudW). https://doi.org/10.1109/w-ficloud.2016.19

With an increasing number of service providers in the cloud market, the competition between these is also increasing. Each provider attempts to attract customers by providing a high quality service with lowest possible cost and at the same time tryin... Read More about A Coordination-Based Brokerage Architecture for Multi-cloud Resource Markets.

An adaptive approach to better load balancing in a consumer-centric cloud environment (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). An adaptive approach to better load balancing in a consumer-centric cloud environment. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 62(3), 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2016.7613190

Pay-as-you-consume, as a new type of cloud computing paradigm, has become increasingly popular since a large number of cloud services are gradually opening up to consumers. It gives consumers a great convenience, where users no longer need to buy the... Read More about An adaptive approach to better load balancing in a consumer-centric cloud environment.

CACA-UAN: A Context-Aware Communication Approach Based on the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Chen, X., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). CACA-UAN: A Context-Aware Communication Approach Based on the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network. In X. Sun, A. Liu, H. C. Chao, & E. Bertino (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2016

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UANs) have emerged as a promising technology which can be applied in many areas such as military and civil in recent years. Among these applications, the communication between the devices is crucial for providing... Read More about CACA-UAN: A Context-Aware Communication Approach Based on the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network.

A Method for Electric Load Data Verfication and Repair in home Environment (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Li, S., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). A Method for Electric Load Data Verfication and Repair in home Environment. In X. Sun, A. Liu, H. C. Chao, & E. Bertino (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2016 (244-253). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48674-1_22

Most people do not have a consciousness of energy saving. For this phenomenon, the governments are building smart grids to take measures for the energy crisis. Electric load data records the electric consumption and plays an important role in operati... Read More about A Method for Electric Load Data Verfication and Repair in home Environment.

Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Zhang, K., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink. In Cloud Computing and Security (232-243). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48674-1_21

In a traditional wireless sensor network with static sinks, sensor nodes close to the sink run out of their batteries quicker than other nodes due to the increased data traffic towards the sink. These nodes with huge data traffic are easy to become h... Read More about Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink.

Pricing Ontology for Task-Oriented Cloud Sourcing (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2016). Pricing Ontology for Task-Oriented Cloud Sourcing. In 2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud). https://doi.org/10.1109/ficloud.2016.17

Cloud computing allows access to computing resources from a number of providers, who offer multiple pricing strategies for selected product characteristics. The service offerings are becoming increasingly complex, with innovations such as spot market... Read More about Pricing Ontology for Task-Oriented Cloud Sourcing.

Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Jin, D., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment. Sensors, 16(9), 1386. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16091386

Distributed Computing has achieved tremendous development since cloud computing was proposed in 2006, and played a vital role promoting rapid growth of data collecting and analysis models, e.g., Internet of things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Big Data An... Read More about Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment.

A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment. Security and Communication Networks, 9(17), 4002-4012. https://doi.org/10.1002/sec.1582

A heterogeneous cloud system, for example, a Hadoop 2.6.0 platform, provides distributed but cohesive services with rich features on large-scale management, reliability, and error tolerance. As big data processing is concerned, newly built cloud clus... Read More about A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment.

DEEPC: Dynamic Energy Profiling of Components (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., Chinenyeze, S. J., & Al-Dubai, A. (2016). DEEPC: Dynamic Energy Profiling of Components. In 2016 IEEE 40th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC). https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2016.90

Many software projects are built using reusable components (i.e. reusable objects - as per component and connectors in software architectures). During component selection in CBSD, components are evaluated on the criteria of required quality attribute... Read More about DEEPC: Dynamic Energy Profiling of Components.

A Classification and Comparison Framework for Cloud Service Brokerage Architectures (2016)
Journal Article
Fowley, F., Pahl, C., Jamshidi, P., Fang, D., & Liu, X. (2016). A Classification and Comparison Framework for Cloud Service Brokerage Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 6(2), 358-371. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2016.2537333

Cloud service brokerage and related management and marketplace concepts have been identified as key concerns for future cloud technology development and research. Cloud service management is an important building block of cloud architectures that can... Read More about A Classification and Comparison Framework for Cloud Service Brokerage Architectures.