Guest Editorial Special Issue on Vehicular Clouds
Cloud Computing, a catchy metaphor for utility computing, implemented through the provisioning of various types of hosted services over the Internet, has seen phenomenal growth and quasi-universal adoption in the past two decades. The underlying business model of cloud computing is the familiar &quo...
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Published in | IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 2637 - 2639 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
IEEE
01.06.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Cloud Computing, a catchy metaphor for utility computing, implemented through the provisioning of various types of hosted services over the Internet, has seen phenomenal growth and quasi-universal adoption in the past two decades. The underlying business model of cloud computing is the familiar "pay-as-you-go" model of metered services, where a user pays for whatever he/she uses and no more, and where additional demand for service can be met in real time. This powerful idea was suggested, at least in part, by the pervasive low-cost high-speed Internet, a good handle on virtualization, and advances in parallel and distributed computing. Three aspects are novel in conventional cloud computing: First, it gives users the illusion of infinite computing resources available to them on demand. Second, it eliminates the up-front financial commitment by cloud users, allowing them to increase hardware/software resources as needed. Third, it gives users the ability to pay for resources on a short-term basis and release them when they are no longer needed. |
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ISSN: | 1524-9050 1558-0016 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TITS.2020.2994359 |