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Residential gateways play a key role in providing internet access to home consumers. Nowadays, users in the same home with heterogeneous applications share a common gateway. As such, the gateway becomes the bandwidth bottleneck, leading to impairments and negatively affecting users' Quality of Experience (QoE). In the case of delay sensitive applications like video streaming and online gaming, this...
In this paper we propose an SDN-based control plane for the University of Costa Rica. Our campus network faces heavy congestion problems and fails at providing adequate quality of service (QoS). Therefore, we describe a solution that leverages priority-traffic routing to ensure that important services (such as live video streaming) are not as heavily affected by congestion. To this end, we first survey...
Existing Web API search engines allow for only category-based browsing and keyword or tag-based searches for RESTful services without offering the capability of discovering and composing real-world RESTful services from the viewpoint of application developers. Therefore, we propose a novel approach, referred to as TAD (Transformation-Annotation-Discovery), to address the above issue. TAD firstly transforms...
With the steady increase of offered cloud storage services, they became a popular alternative to local storage systems. Beside several benefits, the usage of cloud storage services can offer, they have also some downsides like potential vendor lock-in or unavailability. Different pricing models, storage technologies and changing storage requirements are further complicating the selection of the best...
In order to optimize power consumption in the network, techniques to adjust the link capacity to the demand has been proposed recently. These techniques are known as Adaptive Link Rate (ALR). This paper proposes that is feasible to establish an appropriate link rate to transport one or more flows efficiently, in terms of power consumption without impacting performance, in a network with a limited...
To satisfy various quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of different services in future fifth generation wireless networks, wireless virtualized network (WVN) architectures have been proposed to concurrently fulfill diversified service demands via network slicing technologies. Considering the dynamic characteristics of wireless channels and user traffic, the resource allocation problem in a WVN with...
Fog Radio Access Network(F-RAN) is a promising technique for the fifth generation mobile communication system to provide high spectral and energy efficiency. In comparison with Cloud Radio Access Network, the Radio Units in F-RAN are equipped with local caches, which store popular content. In this paper, we investigate joint cooperative beamforming and radio units (RUs) operation in F-RAN system to...
A key challenge in software systems that are exposed to runtime variabilities, such as workload fluctuations and service degradation, is to continuously meet performance requirements. In this paper we present an approach that allows performance self-adaptation using a system model based on queuing networks (QNs), a well-assessed formalism for software performance engineering. Software engineers can...
In Online-to-Offline (O2O) commerce, customer services may need to be composed from online and offline services. Such composition is challenging, as it requires effective selection of appropriate services that, in turn, support optimal combination of both online and offline services. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing an approach to O2O service composition which combines offline...
Spectrum aggregation (SA) is a technique through which a user performs transmission through multiple channels to maximize capacity. In this paper, adaptive SA with optimal channel selection and power allocation for multiuser multichannel access in spectrum sharing wireless networks is proposed. The main objective is to maximize secondary user (SU) nodes capacity subject to: quality-of-service (QoS)...
The high risk of random access collisions leads to huge challenge for the deployment massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC), which cannot be sufficiently overcome by current solutions in LTE/LTE-A networks such as the extended access barring (EAB) scheme. The recently studied approaches of grouped random access have shown a great potential in simultaneously reducing the collision rate and the...
In this paper, the problem of energy efficient power management in wireless powered communication networks (WPCN) is addressed. The key novelty of the introduced approach, towards providing enhanced energy-efficient communication, is the combined consideration of the needs and dependencies in both the wireless energy transfer and wireless information transmission phase. Each user is assumed to be...
Cloud manufacturing is an emerging service-oriented manufacturing paradigm that integrates and manages distributed manufacturing resources through which complex manufacturing demands with a high degree of customization can be fulfilled. The process of Service Composition and Optimal Selection (SCOS) is an important issue for practical implementation of cloud manufacturing. In this paper, a new Mixed...
Ultra-dense network (UDN) deployment is one of the well known key technologies for enhancing the 5G network data traffic and network capacity. However, UDN deployment brings about many problems such as frequent handover, decreasing Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE). The access points' selection and handover decisions making always affected by several factors no matter we consider...
In modern wireless networks, optimizing the association between base stations (BSs) and users effectively improves network performance. On the other hand, a frequently changing BS-user association renders considerable operational burden for network management, e.g., it consumes extra power to awaken the deactivated BSs and to support users' switching among BSs. This motivates us to balance the flexibility...
Clouds offer great flexibility for scaling applications due to the wide spectrum of resources with different cost-performance, inherent resource elasticity and pay-peruse charging. However, determining cost-time-efficient cloud configurations to execute a given application in the large resource configuration space remains a key challenge. The growing importance of elastic applications for which the...
The paper deals with the contact center modeling with emphasis on the optimal number of agents. The contact center belongs to the queueing systems and its mathematical model can be described by various important parameters. The Erlang C formula tends to be suitable tool for the modeling of QoS parameters of contact centers. In our paper, we propose two parameters: downtime and administrative task...
Hybrid Clouds couple the scalability of public Clouds with the greater control supplied by private ones. Hybrid Cloud Brokers support customers in selecting the most suitable providers' offers, optionally adding the provisioning of dedicated services with higher Quality of Service (QoS) levels. A clear evaluation of the benefits on performance and energy savings brought about by any allocation strategy...
A secrecy transmission method with robust power control is investigated in this paper for a downlink two-tier femtocell network, where an eavesdropper attempts to wiretap the legitimate macrocell users. Considering the imperfect channel gains, a probability constraint robust optimization problem is formulated to satisfy the quality-of-service (QoS) of users. We aim to maximize the secrecy rate with...
Wireless systems such as Mobile Random Systems grew to become ubiquitous. Further, because of technology innovations, wireless systems can accommodate multimedia streaming applications. Consequently wireless systems moved from simple bandwidth to loss-tolerant, delay-sensitive and bandwidth-intensive multimedia applications. As people walks of existence changed by using smart phones, the wireless...
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