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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) explores the virtualization technologies to offer Network-as-a- Service (NaaS) through connected virtual network functions. The network operations that were previously performed by specialized hardware are consolidated as software-based virtual network functions (VNFs). These VNFs can be implemented in the telecom clouds with high volume servers, switches and...
Degraded provisioning provides an effective solution to flexibly allocate resources in various dimensions to reduce blocking for differentiated demands when network congestion occurs. In this work, we investigate the novel problem of online degraded provisioning in service-differentiated multi-layer networks with optical elasticity. Quality of Service (QoS) is assured by service-holding-time prolongation...
Abstract-Unlicensed LTE system holds high potential to effectively offload data/video traffic from the crowded licensed band. Previous effort of deploying LTE in the unlicensed band (e.g. license-assisted access LAA) relies on one or more LTE carriers in the licensed band, and may not be desired in certain scenarios. This paper studies a new technology of utilizing LTE directly in an unlicensed band,...
This paper generalizes the piggybacking constructions for distributed storage systems by considering various protected instances and piggybacked instances. Analysis demonstrates that the proportion of protected instances determines the average repair bandwidth for a systematic node. The generalized codes cost much less repair bandwidth than the previous piggybacking codes by optimizing the proportion...
In network virtualization, one of the key problems is to embed a sequence of virtual networks with both node and link constraints onto the physical network, which is known to be NP-hard. When a virtual network arrives, the recent studies focus on designing a solution to minimize the energy cost while maximizing the revenue of the physical network at that time. However, after some time, due to the...
Abstract-In this paper, we investigate a network with N pairs of users transmitting on the same channel simultaneously from the energy efficiency (EE) perspective. We formulate a non-concave multi-objective optimization problem (MOOP) to investigate the EE tradeoff, taking into account the minimum data rate requirement of each user. The weighted Tchebycheff method is utilized to solve the MOOP by...
Nanosatellites offer a solution to provide Internet access in areas where there is no ICT infrastructure, such as rural and remote areas, keeping low construction and maintenance costs. A nanosatellite constellation is composed of a certain number of nanosatellites distributed in one or more orbital planes. In most cases, this network cannot ensure an end-to-end connection between sources and destinations,...
Video streaming applications and services (VASs) consume an enormous amount of scarce resources in mobile devices and cellular wireless networks due to the demand for high data rates of video streaming. The limited resource of wireless media and unreliable nature of wireless channels in cellular networks make VASs challenging to deliver videos at high quality of experience (QoE). Therefore, in this...
We focus on designing efficient integrated schedulers for handling mixed unicast and multicast traffic. We consider an input-queued switch with a multicast-capable switch fabric. At each input port of the switch, there are N dedicated unicast VOQs and one shared multicast queue (MQ). An existing approach to the design of integrated scheduler (i.e., a sequential scheduler) is to run two component schedulers,...
In Uplink Coordinated multipoint (Uplink CoMP) schemes as in LTE [1], multiple base-stations (EnodeBs) receive signals from the same user equipment (UE). Combining this information appropriately using the backhaul is known to yield high gains, especially when the interference avoidance is used across the EnodeBs in CoMP. We consider a load-balanced, dense, small-cell deployment where a UE may be connected...
5G Radio Access Networks (RANs) are supposed to increase their capacity by 1000x to handle growing number of connected devices and increasing data rates. The concept of cloud-RAN (CRAN) has been recently proposed to decouple digital units (DUs) and radio units (RUs) of base stations (BSs), and centralize DUs into central offices. CRAN can ease the implementation of advanced radio coordination techniques,...
With the development of satellite communication technologies and user requirements for pervasive network access, there is a trend to integrate satellites into the terrestrial network infrastructure. Such kind of satellite-terrestrial network is often used for content delivery services as satellites are with wide-area coverage. In terrestrial networks such as Internet, in-network caching has been proved...
Massive MIMO has shown the great potential in improving the achievable rate with a very large number of antennas. However, several critical challenges in designing the analog front-end and coordinating the large-scale antenna array have to be carefully addressed. Does there exist an alternative that can achieve similar system performance to massive MIMO with a simpler design? In this paper, we show...
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is promising to lower the network operator's capital expenditure and operational expenditure by replacing proprietary hardware-based network equipment with software-based virtual network functions that can be consolidated into telecom clouds. In particular, NFV provides an efficient way to deploy network services using service function chains that consist of a...
Magnetic Induction (MI) is a promising solution for wireless communications in complex environments, such as oil reservoir, underground, indoor, and underwater. Due to the inherent electrically small size and simple structure of the magnetic coil antenna, it suffers from low radiation efficiency, extremely narrow bandwidth, and dramatic polarization loss. Recently, significant efforts have been made...
Load-balancing and network optimization in SDN networks require efficient flow splitting during the path computation phase. The way flow splitting is typically implemented in switches is to map the output of an hash function computed on the headers of incoming flows to the content stored in a Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM), a very efficient but scarce resource. Although a large TCAM budget...
In Long Term Evolution (LTE) Networks, several call admission control mechanisms were proposed. They take into account some network constraints such as service diversity and availability of radio resources. However, the shortcomings of the existing mechanisms led us to propose a new approach called Efficient Bandwidth Call Admission Control (EB_CAC). Our proposition considers the quality of service...
In practice, wireless nodes may have different mobility and/or different scattering environment leading to disparity in coherence time and/or coherence bandwidth. Coherence diversity, as a novel source of gain, exploits fading condition disparity of different nodes to provide gain. Downlink transmission for two wireless nodes is considered in three scenarios of fading conditions disparity: in coherence...
Real-time video communications has been incorporated into many instant communication tools such as ichat, Skype, QQ, etc. Real-time video communications has low delivery delay requirement, which imposes great challenge to the provisioning of such services. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a selective redundant transmission mechanism to support real-time streaming on multi-interface...
Software-defined elastic optical networks (SD-EONs) provide operators more flexibility to customize their optical infrastructure dynamically and adaptively, and network virtualization, i.e., infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), enables multiple tenants to share the substrate infrastructure efficiently. In this paper, we study how to provision virtual SD-EONs (vSD-EONs) with the correlated data and...
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