The global growth of the Internet continues with an increase in accessibility, connected
users and new applications in emerging fields like eGames, augmented and virtual reality …

Optical networks offer a wide range of benefits to the telecommunication sector worldwide
with their provision of higher bandwidth, which leads to faster data speed, longer …

The fifth generation (5G) of mobile communications are facing big challenges, due to the
proliferation of diversified terminals and unprecedented services such as internet of things …

Sensor networks can be federated for wide-area geographical coverage using
RELOAD/CoAP architectures. In this case, proxy nodes of constrained environments form a …

As a new network paradigm, Software Defined Networking (SDN) decouples control plane
from data plane and has the programmability. With the network size increases, the control …

Aiming at various issues, such as performance, load-balance and robustness, of Software-
Defined Networking (SDN) controller cluster, several deployment strategies have been …

Software-defined networking has stimulated the worldwide interests in both academia and
industry for its proven advantages. However, switches in data plane are more vulnerable …

In order to address the problem of unreasonable network dividing and unbalanced controller
deploying in software defined networking (SDN), this paper proposes a controller elastic …