Today's businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing, which brings both great
opportunities and challenges. One of the critical challenges is resiliency: disruptions due to …

Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) network, as an integration of optical fiber network and wireless access
network, has attracted intensive research interest and enjoyed significant growth in its …

We are witnessing the evolution of optical networks toward highly heterogeneous, flexible
networks with a widening area of application. As the bandwidth and reliability performance …

With the frequent occurrences of natural disasters damaging large portions of
communication networks and the rising risk of intentional attacks, network vulnerability to …

Disasters can cause severe service disruptions due to large-scale correlated cascading
failures in telecom networks. Major network disruptions due to disasters-both natural (eg …

In this paper, we introduce a framework for designing energy efficient cloud computing
services over non-bypass IP/WDM core networks. We investigate network related factors …

For several decades, optical networks, due to their high capacity and long-distance
transmission range, have been used as the major communication technology to serve …

Recent targeted attacks and natural disasters have made disaster-resilient cloud network
design an important issue. Network operators are investigating proactive and reactive …

The plethora of network planning results published in top-ranked journals is a good sign of
the success of the network planning research field. Unfortunately, it is often difficult for …

In an optical inter-datacenter (inter-DC) network, for preventing data loss, a cloud system
usually leverages multiple DCs for obtaining sufficient data redundancy. In order to improve …