Thesis Statement: With the growing usage of cloud services in a number of fields, more and more research work is focusing on improving the overall perfor- mance of the cloud. As data centers in the cloud are coordinating hundreds of thousands of heterogeneous tasks everyday, meeting everyones...
Recent research findings and reports have raised the concerns for mobile security vulnerability and energy inefficiency. Besides, the growing popularity of smartphones, along with the rapid emergence of new domains of applications also impose new requirements for energy efficiency and service...