Network and Parallel Computing

1. Virtualization and Cloud Computing Technologies

   1. Online Mechanism Design for VMs Allocation in Private Cloud

      • Xiaohong Wu, Yonggen Gu, Guoqiang Li, Jie Tao, Jingyu Chen, Xiaolong Ma

      Pages 234-246

   2. Threshold Based Auto Scaling of Virtual Machines in Cloud Environment

      • M. K. Mohan Murthy, H. A. Sanjay, Jumnal Anand

      Pages 247-256

   3. A Novel Resource Provisioning Model for DHT-Based Cloud Storage Systems

      • Jingya Zhou, Wen He

      Pages 257-268

   4. BIDS: Bridgehead-Employed Image Distribution System for Cloud Data Centers

      • Zhongzhao Wang, Yuebin Bai, Kun Cheng, Jihong Ma, Duo Lv, Yuanfeng Peng et al.

      Pages 269-280

   5. A Broker-Based Self-organizing Mechanism for Cloud-Market

      • Jie Xu, Jian Cao

      Pages 281-293

   6. Group Participation Game Strategy for Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing

      • Weifeng Sun, Danchuang Zhang, Ning Zhang, Qingqing Zhang, Tie Qiu

      Pages 294-305

   7. Towards Optimal Collaboration of Policies in the Two-Phase Scheduling of Cloud Tasks

      • Cong Xu, Jiahai Yang, Di Fu, Hui Zhang

      Pages 306-320

   8. Gossip Membership Management with Social Graphs for Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Clouds

      • JongBeom Lim, Joon-Min Gil, Kwang-Sik Chung, Jihun Kang, Daewon Lee, Heonchang Yu

      Pages 321-332

   9. An Ensemble Multivariate Model for Resource Performance Prediction in the Cloud

      • Jean Steve Hirwa, Jian Cao

      Pages 333-346

   10. Prediction-Based Optimization of Live Virtual Machine Migration

       • Changyuan Chen, Jian Cao

       Pages 347-356

   11. Control Protocol and Self-adaptive Mechanism for Live Virtual Machine Migration over XIA

       • Dalu Zhang, Xiang Jin, Dejiang Zhou, Jianpeng Wang, Jiaqi Zhu

       Pages 357-368

   12. Efficient Live Migration of Virtual Machines with a Novel Data Filter

       • Yonghui Ruan, Zhongsheng Cao, Yuanzhen Wang

       Pages 369-382

2. Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing

   1. Energy-Efficient and Adaptive Algorithms for Constructing Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

      • Shaohua Wan

      Pages 383-394

   2. An Adaptive Channel Sensing Approach Based on Sequential Order in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks

      • Guangsheng Feng, Huiqiang Wang, Qian Zhao, Hongwu Lv

      Pages 395-408

   3. A Location Privacy Preserving Method Based on Sensitive Diversity for LBS

      • Changli Zhou, Chunguang Ma, Songtao Yang, Peng Wu, Linlin Liu

      Pages 409-422

   4. Message Passing Algorithm for the Generalized Assignment Problem

      • Mindi Yuan, Chong Jiang, Shen Li, Wei Shen, Yannis Pavlidis, Jun Li

      Pages 423-434

   5. PPMS: A Peer to Peer Metadata Management Strategy for Distributed File Systems

      • Di Yang, Weigang Wu, Zhansong Li, Jiongyu Yu, Yong Li

      Pages 435-445

   6. Improving Log-Based Fault Diagnosis by Log Classification

      • Deqing Zou, Hao Qin, Hai Jin, Weizhong Qiang, Zongfen Han, Xueguang Chen

      Pages 446-458

   7. A Compilation and Run-Time Framework for Maximizing Performance of Self-scheduling Algorithms

      • Yizhuo Wang, Laleh Aghababaie Beni, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Rosario Cammarota

      Pages 459-470

3. I/O, File Systems, and Data Management

   1. PaxStore : A Distributed Key Value Storage System

      • Zhipeng Tan, Yongxing Dang, Jianliang Sun, Wei Zhou, Dan Feng

      Pages 471-484

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2014, held in Ilan, Taiwan, in September 2014. The 42 full papers and 24 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on systems, networks, and architectures, parallel and multi-core technologies, virtualization and cloud computing technologies, applications of parallel and distributed computing, and I/O, file systems, and data management.

• Web services
• big data
• cloud computing
• data centers
• distributed computing
• multi-core computing
• network computing
• parallel architectures
• parallel computing
• routing algorithms
• statistics
• storage virtualization
• time series
• vectorization
• virtual machines
• virtualization
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Chung Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  Ching-Hsien Hsu

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  Xuanhua Shi

• IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA

  Valentina Salapura

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