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The separated control and data planes in software-defined networking (SDN) with high programmability introduce a more flexible way to manage and control network traffic. However, SDN will experience long packet delay and high packet loss rate when the communication link between two planes is jammed by SDN-aimed DoS attacks with massive table-miss packets. In this paper, we propose FloodDefender, an...
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technique to greatly improve the effectiveness and flexibility of network services through a process named Service Function Chain (SFC) mapping, with which different network services are deployed over virtualized and shared platforms in data centers. However, such an evolution towards software-defined network functions introduces new challenges...
In a software defined network (SDN), the control plane needs to frequently collect flow statistics measured at the data plane switches for different applications, such as traffic engineering, flow re-routing, and attack detection. However, existing solutions for flow statistics collection may result in large bandwidth cost in the control channel and long processing delay on switches, which significantly...
A fundamental problem to be resolved to achieve carrier grade functioning of an SDN network is the controller placement problem. The problem has been traditionally limited to optimally assigning switches to static physical controllers and placing those controllers over a network topology. However, virtualized controllers in place of physical ones could largely increase the dynamism in network control...
Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualisation provide significantly more flexibility and control when provisioning QoS for delay sensitive services. Network delay can have a detrimental impact on VoIP quality and, therefore, minimising delay can help maintain the quality and prevent call dropping. This paper proposes a queuing scheme based on packet delay for prioritising VoIP calls...
In these days, a large amount of popular peer-to-peer (also commonly known as P2P) applications, especially in the live streaming domain, are operating in Internet. One of the keys to success of such an application is the mutual cooperation among the participants (i.e., peers) in that application. However, presence of selfish peers (also commonly known as free riders) affects the performance of the...
Through network function virtualization (NFV), telecom providers aim to flexibly re-use generic-purpose hardware to provide services on-demand and in an agile way. Service function chaining is becoming the preferred model to describe the characteristics of the packet-processing network functions which, together, form these services. NFV allows for network function embedding freedom, creating new dynamics...
The TCP/IP model is a widely used protocol at present time due to unparalleled popularity of the Internet. Although it is efficient and reliable it does not include the user into its architecture and thus leaves the user without any control over the underlying layers. While the default layering mechanism is set up in such a way that it would give efficient service to most of its clients, it does not...
Optical fibre being a backbone of modern communication has provided simplified service provisioning, supported a wide range of new bandwidth applications, high speed and data rate, but they are prone to high power consumption. This concern attracted many to come up with methods of energy efficient strategies, different policies and protocols. As the demand of data, voice, and information processing...
In two-tier heterogeneous cellular networks (HCN) where small cells are deployed overlaid with macro cells, base station (BS) association is one of the fundamental problems, which becomes even more challenging when the small cell BSs are connected to the gateways via imperfect backhaul links, e.g. using wireless technologies. In this paper, we first analyze the mean packet delay in radio access and...
In this paper we propose a digital blind calibration scheme for Time-Interleaved ADCs based on transfer function mismatch which corrects gain, time-skew and bandwidth mismatch errors. The estimation of mismatches uses an adaptive filtering structure with a lowpass filter combined to a fractional delay filter. The compensation is based on the development of a matrix approach to cancel the effect of...
This work presents a novel on-the-fly void filling scheme for Long-Reach EPON called Size Controlled Batch Void Filling (SCBVF). SCBVF aims at reducing the time between consecutive bandwidth grants (attendance time) and hence reducing the average delay for delay-sensitive traffic.
This paper presents a peer-to-peer (P2P) framework for the deployment of live video streaming applications over P2P overlay networks. The proposed framework provides support for flash-crowds, decentralizes decision making and makes use of network coding to reduce bandwidth consumption. We present the framework and the simulation results that demonstrate the framework's effectiveness.
This paper considers a network in which a primary user (PU) may cooperate with a cognitive radio (CR) user for transmission of its data packets. The PU is assumed to be a buffered terminal operating in a time-slotted fashion. We develop an energy-efficient protocol that involves cooperation and coordination between primary and secondary users. To satisfy certain quality-of-service requirements, users...
Flow of packets plays an important role in the network during sending and receiving process. More the packets received are good for the network users as the speed would be more leading to user satisfaction. A network can be tracked based on the packet flow throughout the network. If greater the capacity, the performance also will be great. Efforts were made to measure the incoming traffic in bits...
This paper studies the delay-quality tradeoff of variable bitrate (VBR) videos in multi-bitrate adaptive streaming. A novel method is presented that provides an adapted video with the best possible quality while still meeting the constraints of bandwidth and delay.
Agent-level negotiations between an application and a cloud service provider (SP) face two complexities: i) inaccuracy of computational models in capturing the behavior of a cloud-based system made up of diverse components and resources; and ii) disparity in the goals and priorities of an application and the SP in exercising a cloud-based system. The paper suggests trial actions by an agent to learn...
Telehealth applications such as Video-over-IP and remote sensor monitoring are rapidly growing in utilisation and it has now expanded to the patient's homes. These Telehealth applications are, however highly delay sensitive and require high quality (and bandwidth priority) in order to provide satisfactory performances. However, at the patient's home area network (HAN) environment, typically there...
This paper investigates how a p2p television platform can take advantage of the presence of frequent channel viewers to grant them a more satisfying service than to less regular spectators. The idea we explore is to learn beforehand about the users' interests, in order to cluster them in groups that display different behaviors; then, the neighborhood creation strategy and video chunk scheduling algorithm...
Best Effort service has been the bedrock of the Internet. The simultaneous offering of Managed Service has been proposed as an efficient way to support quality of service, to make some applications feasible and many others more attractive, and give consumers greater choice. However, there is widespread concern that if a network provider is allowed to offer Managed Service and charge a per-use fee,...
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