Emerging mega-trends (eg, mobile, social, cloud, and big data) in information and
communication technologies (ICT) are commanding new challenges to future Internet, for …

OpenFlow is currently the most commonly deployed Software Defined Networking (SDN)
technology. SDN consists of decoupling the control and data planes of a network. A software …

As interest in adopting Cloud computing for various applications is rapidly growing, it is
important to understand how these applications and systems will perform when deployed on …

Paradoxically, with an ever-increasing traffic demand, today transport-network operators
experience a progressive erosion of their margins. The alarms of change are set, and …

Traffic demands in mobile networks are expected to grow substantially in the next years,
both in terms of total traffic volume and of bit-rate required by individual users. It is generally …

A novel idea presented in this paper is to exploit the OpenFlow technology to address
reliability, which is one of the most important factors in sensor networks. The proposed …

Software defined networking (SDN) achieves network routing management with logically
centralized control software that decouples the network data plane from the control plane …

Network slicing reserves a portion of the physical resources of radio access networks and
makes them available to consumers. Slices guarantee traffic isolation, strict bandwidth and …

Fiber optic cables are the workhorses of today's Internet services. Operators spend millions
of dollars to purchase, lease and maintain their optical backbone, making the efficiency of …

In the fast moving space of technology, everything and everyone is on the Internet accessing
the world. The creation of large networks and data centers required for managing and …