Current and future network services and applications are expected to revolutionize our
society and lifestyle. At the same time, the abundant possibilities that new network …

During the last years, a continuous convergence and fusion of computing and networking
systems is stressed in the ICT research community. Context awareness appears to be a …

Routing optimization has been researched in network design for a long time, and plenty of
optimization schemes have been proposed from both academia and industry. However …

Autonomic network management is a promising approach to reduce the cost and the
complexity of managing network infrastructures. It attempts to lead the human administrator …

We present a generic and robust approach for scene categorization. A complex scene is
described by proto-concepts like vegetation, water, fire, sky etc. These proto-concepts are …

The increasing scale, technology advances and services of modern networks have
dramatically complicated their management such that in the near future it will be almost …

Network management faces the interrelated challenges of increasing network complexity,
meeting sophisticated business requirements, and being subject to human oversight. Self …

Achieving high programmability has become an essential aim of network research due to
the ever-increasing internet traffic. Software-Defined Network (SDN) is an emerging …

Recently, the autonomic communication networks paradigm has been introduced as a
solution to the increasing management complexity of communication networks in the Future …

Worldwide buildings are responsible for about 40% of the overall consumption and
contribute to an average of 30% percent of the global carbon emissions. Nevertheless, most …