EdcsuS: Sustainable Edge Data Centers as a Service in sdn-enabled Vehicular Environment

Comment 10: There is no comparison with other works.
Response: The comparison of the proposed scheme with an existing scheme of its category is presented in the revised manuscript. The performance metrics, average utilization level (Fig. 7(c), page 12), number of servers provisioned (Fig. 7(d), page 12), energy consumption (Fig. 7(e), page 12), mapping of energy consumption with RES generated (Fig. 8(b-c), page 13), energy cost (Fig. 8(d), page 13), SLA violations (Fig. 8(e), page 13) and latency (Fig. 8(f), page 13) have been compared with existing scheme SGERA
[23] in the revised manuscript.

Reviewer 2’s comments

Response to minor comments

Authors in the manuscript titled: ”EDCSuS: Sustainable Edge Data Centers as a Service in SDN-enabled Vehicular Environment” propose a multi-follower Stackelberg game for renewable energy aware resource allocation in order to sustain geo-distributed edge-DCs. Furthermore, they proposed a cooperative resource sharing and migration schema in order to avoid energy consumption for re-searching and re-routing. The manuscript is well written and well organized, it fits well the topics of the Special Issue, also abstract and key words are appropriate. Number of references are adequate, however a part of them are from 2015 or earlier. In order to improve the work I suggest to:

RESPONSE: The authors want to thanks the reviewer as the comments provided have allowed us to transform the entire manuscript to improve the quality and presentation. The authors have reworked on each and every section, re-framed them and added suitable and significant content to improve the quality of the manuscript.


Comment 1: Page 2 row 53. The table analizes works from 8 to 14, but into the text you refer till 13, please check it.
Response: The table has been revised to overcome the issue raised by the reviewer. Additional proposals have been added in the table in the revised manuscript (Table 1, page 3).


Comment 2: Furthermore, into the paper could be interesting to have more details about of these works. Please, add a specific section in which you discuss them.
Response: A separate section for related work has been added in the revised manuscript which describes the details about of the works (Section 2, page 2-3). Moreover, an updated and detailed comparative table has also been added in revised manuscript (Table 1, page 3).