Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

Terahertz communication is emerging as a future technology to support Terabits per second
link with highlighting features as high throughput and negligible latency. However, the …

We present SWAN, a system that boosts the utilization of inter-datacenter networks by
centrally controlling when and how much traffic each service sends and frequently re …

It has been over 16 years since Cisco's NetFlow was patented in 1996. Extensive research
has been conducted since then and many applications have been developed. In this survey …

Large datacenter operators with sites at multiple locations dimension their key resources
according to the peak demand of the geographic area that each site covers. The demand of …

Data centers are growing exponentially (in number and size) to accommodate the escalating
user and application demands. Likewise, the concerns about the environmental impacts …

Inter-datacenter wide area networks (inter-DC WAN) carry a significant amount of data
transfers that require to be completed within certain time periods, or deadlines. However …

This paper presents an efficient topology and route management approach in Software-
Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN). Traditional WANs suffer from low utilization and …

Workload characterization is a well-established discipline that plays a key role in many
performance engineering studies. The large-scale social behavior inherent in the …

Survivability against disasters—both natural and deliberate attacks, and spanning large
geographical areas—is becoming a major challenge in communication networks. Cloud …