Many network applications, eg, industrial control, demand ultra-low latency (ULL). However,
traditional packet networks can only reduce the end-to-end latencies to the order of tens of …

Software defined networking (SDN) decouples the control plane from the data plane of
forwarding devices. This separation provides several benefits, including the simplification of …

The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from
the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact …

Traditional power grids are currently being transformed into smart grids (SGs). SGs feature
multi-way communication among energy generation, transmission, distribution, and usage …

Wireless networks with their ubiquitous applications have become an indispensable part of
our daily lives. Wireless networks demand more and more spectral resources to support the …

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 …

Historically, research efforts in optical networks have focused on the goal of continuously
increasing capacity rather than on lowering end-to-end latency. This slowly started to …

To cope with the unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic, we investigate the
performance gains obtained from unifying coverage-centric 4G mobile networks and …

The second stage of next-generation passive optical network (NG-PON2) based on time and
wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network (TWDM-PON) was proposed by a …

The shared nature of the wireless medium induces contention between data transport and
backward signaling, such as acknowledgement. The current way of TCP acknowledgment …