Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2021 Annual Report April 8, 2022
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Dear All:
On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab, I am pleased to share 2021 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2021.pdf
http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2021.pdf
The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2021 are:
- The Lab successfully hosted ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Infrastructure Projects) along with hosting two new research projects.
- Members of the CLOUDS Lab have authored 73 publications, which include 42 journal papers and 10 conference papers.
- The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. iFogSim, building on CloudSim, has emerged as a de-facto toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
- Members have presented over 35 invited talks that include 23 keynotes delivered at international conferences/events held in Australia, India, Bahrain, France, Russia, Israel, USA, and China.
- The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 19 PhD students and 2 Research Fellows.
- IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCCLD) presented its 2021 “Outstanding PhD Thesis Award” to Dr. Shashikant Ilager for his PhD thesis.
- We are recognised as “Lifetime Achiever” and “Superstar of Research” in “Engineering and Computer Science” discipline by the Australian Research Review 2021.
- A list of the world’s top 2% researchers complied by Stanford University after assessing scientists worldwide for research carried out over their careers across all disciplines ranks us as #1 for citation impact during the single calendar year 2020 and #2 for career-long citation impact up until the end of 2020 in Distributed Computing area.
- Members of the Lab have led community efforts such as (a) the organisation of conferences (e.g., CCGrid 2021 in Australia) and (b) Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, which was established 50+ years ago.
I wish you all a peaceful, healthy, safe, and spiritually enlightened rest of the year 2022.
Take care.
Best regards
Raj
Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2020 Annual Report March 31, 2021
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Dear All:
On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab, I am pleased to share 2020 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2020.pdf
The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2020 are:
* The Lab successfully hosted ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Infrastructure Projects) along with hosting two new research projects.
* Members of the CLOUDS Lab have authored 58 publications, which include 36 journal papers and 12 conference papers.
* Three of our papers received “Best Paper Awards” from IEEE/ACM and Elsevier.
* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. iFogSim, building on CloudSim, has emerged as a de-facto toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
* Members have presented over 26 invited talks that include 19 keynotes delivered at international conferences/seminars held in Australia, India, Singapore, and China.
* The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 16 PhD students and 3 Research Fellows.
* In 2020 alone, our papers have attracted over 10700 citations (ref: Google Scholar) and we hope this trend will continue!
* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academics and PhD students) from China, India, and Norway,
I wish you all a peaceful, healthy and safe rest of the year 2021.
Take care.
Best regards
Raj
Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2019 Annual Report March 22, 2020
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Dear All:
On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab and the Cloudbus Project, I am pleased to share 2019 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://www.cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2019.pdf
The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2019 are:
* The CLOUDS Lab successfully hosted ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Projects) along with attracting two new research grants. All our publications can be accessed from:
http://cloudbus.org/publications-years.html
* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. iFogSim, building on CloudSim, has emerged as a de-facto toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
* Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) administered by the Australian Research Council (ARC), in its ERA 2018 evaluation report released in March 2019, offered Distributed Computing research at the University of Melbourne highest rating (5 – “well above” the world standard).
* Members have presented over 40 invited talks that include 12 keynotes delivered at international conferences/seminars held in Australia, India, Indonesia, Mauritius, Ireland, and UK.
* “2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” recognition from Thomson Reuters; and “Best of the World” in Computing Systems field (for quality, volume, and impact) recognition by the 2019 Australian Research Magazine.
* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academics and PhD students) from China, Iran, India, Italy, and Norway,
I wish you all a peaceful, healthy and safe rest of the year 2020.
Take care.
Best regards
Raj
Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2018 Annual Report March 12, 2019
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On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab and the Cloudbus Project, I am pleased to share 2018 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://www.cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2018.pdf
The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2018 are:
* The CLOUDS Lab successfully hosted two ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Projects) along with two industry funded projects. All our publications can be accessed from:
http://cloudbus.org/publications-years.html
* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. The iFogSim building on CloudSim is emerging as a de-facto Toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
* Members have presented over 26 invited talks that include 6 keynotes delivered at international conferences/seminars held in Australia, India, Indonesia, Mauritius, China, Italy, and France.
* “2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” recognition from Thomson Reuters for a team member!
* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academic and PhD students) from India, China, Germany, Estonia, Slovenia, and UK.
Wish you all a happy, peaceful, and prosperous rest of the year 2019.
Best regards
Raj
A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade November 23, 2018
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A team of international experts (from Australia, USA, Europe, Brazil, China, India) have put together a 2030 Research Agenda for Cloud computing. A paper on this is now published in ACM Computing Surveys (November 2018 issue) as:
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A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade
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Please check out:
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3241737
Full version can be downloaded from:
http://www.buyya.com/papers/CloudManifesto.pdf
Bib details:
Rajkumar Buyya, Satish Narayana Srirama, Giuliano Casale, Rodrigo Calheiros, Yogesh Simmhan, Blesson Varghese, Erol Gelenbe, Bahman Javadi, Luis Miguel Vaquero, Marco A. S. Netto, Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Maria Alejandra Rodriguez, Ignacio M. Llorente, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati, Dejan Milojicic, Carlos Varela, Rami Bahsoon, Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Omer Rana, Wanlei Zhou, Hai Jin, Wolfgang Gentzsch, Albert Zomaya, and Haiying Shen, A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 51, No. 5, Article No. 105, Pages: 1-38, ISSN 0360-0300, ACM Press, New York, USA, November 2018.
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CLOUDS Lab’s 2017 Annual Report March 29, 2018
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On behalf of CLOUDS Lab and the Cloudbus Project, I am pleased to share
2017 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community
services. For full report, please visit:
Click to access CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2017.pdf
The highlights of research activities and outcomes in 2017 are:
* The CLOUDS Lab successfully hosted two ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Projects) along with two industry funded projects.
* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim and iFogSim. The iFogSim building on CloudSim is emerging as a de-facto Toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
* Members have presented over 40 invited talks that include 13 keynotes delivered at international conferences/seminars held in Australia, India, Indonesia, Mauritius, and UK.
* The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 16 PhD students and 4 Research Fellows.
* “2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” recognition from Thomson Reuters for a team member!
* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academic and PhD students) from India, China, Germany, Estonia, and UK.
Wish you all a happy, peaceful, and prosperous rest of the year 2017.
Best regards
Raj
Recent R&D Updates from CLOUDS Lab – Next-Gen Clouds, Fogs, Systems September 16, 2017
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It has been quite sometime we communicated. Let me share our recent R&D efforts in CLOUDS Lab, which of course reflect trends and new research directions our community is taking:
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1. Fog/Edge Computing paradigm is getting popular to meet requirements of emerging applications of IoT (Internet of Things). Of course, it complements Cloud computing by bringing a notion of Clouds to edge to support latency-sensitive applications. CLOUDS Lab at Melbourne is actively working on developing tools and technologies for Fog Computing. They include a Simulator (iFogSim), applications combining IoT, mobile, and clouds in areas such as healthcare, creating Fog environment using IoT devices, Fog devices (Raspberry pi) and enterprise/public clouds.
For details, please check out “Fog Computing Initiative” website:
http://www.cloudbus.org/fog/
This month our paper on a simulator for Fog Computing (iFogSim) is published. You can browse it from:
http://www.cloudbus.org/papers/iFogSim.pdf
2. I am involving in editing a book on:
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Fog and Edge Computing: Principles and Paradigms
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We love to receive a chapter contribution proposal from you. Please check a call for chapters for details: http://www.cloudbus.org/fog/book/
3. We have been exploring issues involved in enhancing Reliability and QoS Services in Systems supporting Stream and BigData applications. Outcomes of these efforts are reported in our recent papers:
http://www.buyya.com/papers/RPDI-Deadline-HybridClouds.pdf
http://www.buyya.com/papers/E-Storm2017.pdf
http://www.buyya.com/papers/BigData-eScience2017.pdf
4. Earlier, I shared about our efforts in putting together an article focusing on “Next Generation Cloud Computing: New Trends and Research Directions”. This work has been revised a lot to capture some of the recent trends and al,so address comments of external experts. The latest version has been accepted for publication in Journal – Future Generation Computer Systems. You can browse it from:
http://www.buyya.com/papers/NextGenCloudComputing.pdf
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Happy reading and have a nice weekend:-)
Cheers
Raj
Manjrasoft in “The 10 Most Valuable Cloud Solutions Provider Companies” Listing April 25, 2017
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Manjrasoft is part of “The 10 Most Valuable Cloud Solutions Provider Companies” (March 2017). For details, please check out: http://www.insightssuccess.com/the-10-most-valuable-cloud-solutions-provider-companies-march2017/
CLOUDS Lab’s 2016 Annual Report April 25, 2017
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On behalf of CLOUDS Lab and the Cloudbus Project, I am pleased to share
2016 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community
services. For full report, please visit:
Click to access CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2016.pdf
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The highlights of research activities and outcomes in 2016 are:
* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim and iFogSim. The new CloudSim Toolkit now contains modules for DVFS, web modelling, MapReduce application and Containers modelling. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world including Ericsson!
* The Lab successfully hosted four ARC research projects: Future Fellowship programme (Autonomic Cloud Computing), 2 Discovery Projects, and 1 Industry Linkage Project.
* The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars: 16 PhD students, 6 Research Fellows (4 at PostDoc level and 2 Software Engineers).
* “2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” recognition from Thomson Reuters for a team member!
* In 2016 alone, our papers have attracted over 8750 citations (ref: Google Scholar) and we hope this trend will continue!
* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academic and PhD students) from India, China, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Korea, and UK.
* Our Lab’s spin-off company, Manjrasoft has been recognised as one of the Top 5 Cloud Apps companies by the Silicon Review Magazine.
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Wish you all a happy, peaceful, and prosperous rest of the year 2017.
Best regards
Raj
New Updates and Hot Topics for 2016 January 15, 2016
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Dear Friends.
Let me first, wish you and your family members a happy, peaceful, and spiritually progressive new year 2016.
Let me briefly share new updates from our side especially those happened in Dec. month:
1. In Dec. month, I visited Cyprus and presented a seminar
“New Innovations in Cloud Computing for Big Data Applications”
in University of Cyprus. You can access a video of talk:
2. In Dec., I also visited Iran and presented a keynote for “National Conference on Strategies for Development of Content Distribution Networks”. If you like to browse slides, please download:
http://cloudbus.org/talks/CDN-Cloud-Buyya-Keynote-2015.ppt
3. “A blueprint for greener cloud computing” written by Kristen Michelle Goodgam (a Journalist and colleague in Melbourne University) after interviewing me. It aims at broader audience. So, I am expecting everyone to understand it easily. Give it a try:
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-blueprint-for-greener-cloud-computing
4. I recently mange to compile all our publications for 2015. You can
access them from: http://cloudbus.org/publications-years.html
5. The topics that continue to be popular in 2016 are:
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– Internet of Things
– Big Data
– Cloud Computing
(as many innovative applications are delivered through Clouds)
– Now “Fog Computing” is slowly getting popular. We recently wrote a
book chapter on it (to be published in “Internet of Things: Principles
and Paradigm” book by Elsevier/MKP. You can access early version from:
Click to access FogComputing2016.pdf
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The IEEE Computer Society has unveiled its Top 9 Technology Trends for
2016. You can access them from:
Good news is that many them have commonality with ones I noted above and
also some of them are topic of CLOUDS Lab 2015 publications.
Happy reading!
Cheers
Raj
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