The newly emerged Software Defined Networks (SDN) can apply to Wide Area Network
(WAN) for network control and management. To achieve this, a logically centralized but a …

Large networks are always partitioned into several small networks when deploying software
defined networking (SDN). The network partitioning with SDN control planes open many …

Recently, increasing investments in satellite-related technologies make the low earth orbit
(LEO) satellite constellation a strong complement to terrestrial networks. To mitigate the …

To date, traditional satellite systems are contained-designed and inflexible for configuration
update, space systems interconnections and providing fine-grained services. In this paper …

In order to solve the problems of traditional integrated space-terrestrial network control and
service deployment complexity and large request delay of streaming media data such as …

The decoupling of control and data planes in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) brings
benefits in terms of logically centralized control and application programming. But, the single …

Software-Defined Network is an emerging networking paradigm that enables intelligent and
flexible network management. Specifically, the design of the control plane is crucial …

The MLSTIN is considered as a powerful architecture to meet the heavy consumer demand
for wireless data access in the coming 5G ecosystem. However, due to the inherent …

Satellite communications (SatCom) have a role of advanced service enablers in the new
virtual networks, following 3GPP specifications. Specifically, the satellite peculiar …

The Controller Placement Problem is an important and inherent component of SDN network
design. Several QoS requirements such as delay and availability impose constraints on the …