Today's distributed systems have to work in changing environments and under different
working conditions. To provide high performance under these changing conditions, many …

Advanced Internet services, such as those for processing data streams from sensor
networks, often need to support complex operations to meet the needs of multiple user …

The heart of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is both the softwarization of existing
network middleboxes as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and the Service Function …

In der Dissertation wird aufgezeigt, dass die Analyse, die Umsetzung und die Evaluation von
Kommunikationssystemen durch i) fehlende Abstraktionen und die resultierende …

Networking technologies have recently been evolving and network applications are now
expected to support flexible composition of upper-layer network services, such as security …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has been expected to flexibly compose Virtual
Network Functions (VNFs) by virtualizing existing network appliances and logically chaining …

The convergence of data, audio and video on IP networks is changing the way individuals,
groups and organizations communicate. This diversity of communication media presents …

Increasingly, computer software must adapt dynamically to changing conditions. The
correctness of adaptation cannot be rigorously addressed without precisely specifying the …

Dynamic and flexible composition of higher-level network services, such as security, QoS, or
adaptive services are required by future network applications. However, the development of …

Since current networking technology is rapidly evolving, many users can now access
information from all over the world without any geographical and temporal constraints …