Nowadays, voice over IP (VoIP) is a cost-effective and efficient technology in the
communications industry. Free applications for transferring multimedia on the Internet are …

We consider a network security and configuration management problem of locating service
controllers so as to maximize availability of services in case of targeted attacks on the …

In recent years, the Software Defined Network (SDN) has emerged as a pivotal element not
only in data-centers and wide-area networks, but also in next generation networking …

Network survivability is the ability to maintain service continuity in the presence of failures.
This ability might be critical in times where large-scale failures occur, as in the case of …

Regarding real-time data processing, technological innovations like the Internet of Things
(IoTs) need latency-sensitive computation. The interconnected devices in IoT systems …

The logical separation of the data plane and the control plane of the network device
conceptually defined by software-defined networking (SDN) creates many opportunities to …

Today's most significant developing technology is the Internet of Things (IoT), and
investigating it is a hot issue in information technology. The Internet Engineering Task Force …

SDN is an emerging network paradigm whose main characteristic is the separation of the
Control from the Data Plane, allowing the implementation of innovative, robust, and flexible …

The rapid increase of the internet users has resulted in significant growth of the online traffic,
hence, putting more demand on the network. This has led to a high prevalence of link …

The multi-controller placement problem (MCPP) represents one of the most challenging
issues in software-defined networks (SDNs). High-efficiency and scalable optimized …