Software‐defined network separates the control plane and the data plane, making the
network more flexible. With the expansion of the network scale, one centralized controller …

The communication traffic among servers is a principal bottleneck for data center networks
(DCNs), in which redundant traffic has a significant impact on the performance of DCNs. In …

Data centers are now the basis for many Internet and cloud computing services. Trends
toward multi-core processors, end-host virtualization, and commodities of scale are pointing …

Under the traditional network architecture, due to the close binding relationship between
network management and network physical topology, network equipment increases …

Information-Centric Networking is considered as one of the most promising architecture for
IoT. The use of content-centric approach may improve the content access & dissemination …

Information‐Centric Networking with caching is a very promising future network architecture.
The research on its cache deployment strategy is divided into three categories, namely …

Hybrid circuit and packet switching for data center networking (DCN) has received
considerable research attention recently. A hybrid-switched DCN employs a much faster …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides a tractable and efficient architecture for
operators to customize their network functions. Many traditional Data Center Networks …

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has recently attracted much attention due to in-network
caching and named-based routing. Caching has played a critical role in the era of …

In the past few years, a diversity of proposals have been introduced to solve the popular
SDN controller placement problem (CPP). The goal was to minimize the latency among …