Recent years have witnessed the booming of big data analytical applications (BDAAs). This
trend provides unrivaled opportunities to reveal the latent patterns and correlations …

In recent years, with the blooming of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing (CC),
researchers have begun to discover new methods of technological support in all areas (eg …

This work presents a new MAC protocol called RMAC that supports reliable multicast for
wireless ad hoc networks. By utilizing the busy tone mechanism to realize multicast …

The introduction of software defined networking (SDN) has created an opportunity for file
access services to get a view of the underlying network and to further optimize large data …

Bandwidth reservation has been increasingly used in high-performance networks to provide
quality of service for various applications ranging from real-time multimedia communication …

Big data is becoming a major focus for both industry and academia, requiring drastic
changes in all aspects of computer systems in order to store, process, and transfer big data …

Large-scale applications in various fields generate big data at a high speed, which needs to
be transferred through High-Performance Networks (HPNs). Bandwidth scheduling in HPNs …

Colossal amounts of data are being generated in extreme-scale e-Sciences with the advent
of new computation tools and experimental infrastructures. Such extremely large and …

Many next-generation e-science applications require fast and reliable transfer of large
volumes of data with guaranteed performance, which is typically enabled by the bandwidth …

Many large-scale applications in broad science, engineering, and business domains are
generating big data, which must be transferred to remote sites for various storage and …