The concept of energy-efficient networking has begun to spread in the past few years,
gaining increasing popularity. Besides the widespread sensitivity to ecological issues, such …

Software defined networking has solved many challenging issues in the field of networking
industry. It separates the control plane from the data forwarding plane. This makes SDN to …

Nowadays energy crisis and global warming problems are hanging over everyone's head,
urging much research work on energy saving. In the ICT industry, which is becoming a major …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio,
video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users …

The IT equipment comprising the Internet in the USA uses about $6 billion of electricity every
year. Much of this electricity use is wasted on idle, but fully powered‐up, desktop PCs and …

The goal of data center network is to interconnect the massive number of data center
servers, and provide efficient and fault-tolerant routing service to upper-layer applications …

The traffic grooming problem in optical networks has been extensively studied. It tackles the
problem of aggregating sub-wavelength traffic onto optical lightpaths so that the network …

Given that engineering flexibility can potentially provide a competitive advantage, the
question then becomes: Precisely how valuable is this flexibility? However, traditional …

The Internet's architecture largely and implicitly assumes full-time connectivity, a notion that
is embodied in key networking principles including fate sharing, soft state, and the end-to …

Cloud based applications and services require high performance and strong reliability
provided by data center networks. To overcome the problem of traditional tree based data …