ICTs and e-learning technologies have been exploited thoroughly, in an effort to improve the
education procedures and techniques and ensure that nontraditional students (disabled …

We present a novel representation and method for detecting and explaining anomalous
activities in a video stream. Drawing from natural language processing, we introduce a …

Cloud service providers use replication across geographically distributed data centers to
improve end-to-end performance as well as to offer high reliability under failures. Content …

UltraScienceNet is an experimental wide area network testbed to enable the development of
networking technologies required for next-generation large-scale scientific applications. It …

The collaboration between networks and applications provides opportunities to both
applications to improve their performances and network service providers to increase …

In recent years hybrid optical network architectures, which employ two or more network
technologies simultaneously, were proposed. They aim at improving the overall network …

There has been an increasing number of network deployments that provide dedicated
connections through on-demand and in-advance scheduling in support of high-performance …

A control-plane architecture for supporting advance reservation of dedicated bandwidth
channels on a switched network infrastructure is described including the front-end web …

Because of the deployment of large-scale experimental and computational scientific
applications, big data is being generated on a daily basis. Such large volumes of data …

New types of networks are emerging for the purpose of transmitting large amounts of
scientific data among research institutions quickly and reliably. These exotic networks are …