Computer networks have become a critical infrastructure. In fact, networks should not only
meet strict requirements in terms of correctness, availability, and performance but they …

Software‐defined networking (SDN) is one of the most prevailing networking paradigms in
current and next‐generation networks. Basically, the highly featured separation of control …

With the advent of cloud computing, many new networking concepts have been introduced
to simplify network management and bring innovation through network programmability. The …

In this paper, we consider the problem of task offloading in a software-defined access
network, where IoT devices are connected to fog computing nodes by multi-hop IoT access …

Several networking architectures have been developed atop IEEE 802.3 networks to provide
real-time communication guarantees for time-sensitive applications in industrial automation …

Due to that Service Function Chain (SFC) permits the forwarding of flows along a
predetermined sequence chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), it has become a …

Abstract The emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables network innovation and
flexible control for network operations. A key component of SDN is the flow table at each …

Owing to the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networks (SDN),
Service Function Chain (SFC) has become a popular service in SDN and NFV-enabled …

P4 programmable data planes are becoming more popular due to the flexibility they provide
in describing the packet processing pipeline. P4 successfully abstracts the processing …

This paper promotes convertible data center network architectures, which can dynamically
change the network topology to combine the benefits of multiple architectures. We propose …