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In this paper, we advocate the notion of "BIG" cache as an innovative abstraction for effectively utilizing the distributed storage and processing capacities of all servers in a cache network. The "BIG" cache abstraction is proposed to partly address the problem of (cascade) thrashing in a hierarchical network of cache servers, where it has been known that cache resources at intermediate...
Assigning network resources to Virtual Links (VLs) efficiently and on-demand is a challenging problem for any network virtualization solution. Known as the Virtual Link Mapping (VLM) problem, its objective is to compute the appropriate network paths with the required network resources that meet the quality of service expectations of arriving VLs while spreading the load over all nodes to maximise...
Spectrum-sliced elastic optical path networks (SLICE) enable flexible bandwidth provisioning, which allows efficient resource utilization and support to heterogeneous bandwidth demands. This makes SLICE a very promising networking architecture. In SLICE, finding a route and a slice of the spectrum is an important design problem, which is known as the Routing and Spectrum Assignment (RSA) problem....
Recently, as the development of content-centric networking and Telco-CDNs, inter-domain cache sharing has attracted increased attention. With inter-domain cache sharing, ISPs can further reduce transit cost and improve the quality-of-service (QoS) by accessing their neighbors' caching devices. Currently, cache sharing is limited to free-peering ISPs. Enabling eyeball ISPs to share caches with their...
A multirate, fractional-N RF digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) phase modulator implementation for polar transmitter supporting cellular communication standards up to 4G LTE-A is demonstrated for the first time. The RF-DPLL integrates LC-tank-based digital-controlled oscillator (DCO) cores with ΔΣ-noise shaping and fractional sample rate conversion to account for a broad range of frequency bands and...
Internet traffic is generated by a multitude of applications, each one with diverse service requirements in terms of bandwidth, latency, reliability, etc. Today traffic engineering techniques can provide service differentiation at the IP/MPLS layer, but not at the optical layer. In this paper we propose a framework where application service requirements drive a dynamic multi-layer (IP/MPLS and optical)...
Middleboxes are widely deployed to perform various network functions to ensure security and improve performance. The recent trend of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) makes it easy for operators to deploy software implementations of these network functions on commodity servers. However, virtual network functions consume different amounts of resources when processing packets. Thus a multi-resource...
Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) is a new operation mode for the Long Term Evolution Advanced systems to transmit data via both licensed spectrum and unlicensed spectrum based on the framework of carrier aggregation. For LAA uplink (UL) transmission, there is a mismatch between resource allocation and actual data transmission due to the requirement of listen-before-talk (LBT). Such a mismatch may cause...
Elastic Optical Networks (EON) have been a constant focus of studies in recent years because they have characteristics that stand out in relation to current optical networks. Among these characteristics, it is possible to highlight the ability to transmit data with different bandwidths, adapted to the demand, which guarantees a high spectral efficiency. Different techniques and heuristics have been...
It has become increasingly important for content providers (CPs) to reach consumers with low latency. Peering links that connect CPs directly to access Internet service providers (access ISPs) have been used for this purpose thus providing one-hop AS paths from CPs to users. While providing improved latency, these peering links still do not give CPs control over the entire end-to-end path to their...
Robust linear analog block coding of a correlated Gaussian source over a Rayleigh fading channel, without encoderside channel-state information (CSI) is investigated. The encoder which minimizes the minimum mean square error, averaged over an ensemble of decoders whose channel gains are drawn from an exponential distribution is derived. This encoder does not require CSI. It is compared with a CSI-adaptive,...
In this paper, we use a Spectrum Sharing/allocation algorithm to implement a Cognitive Radio network without spectral awareness. This allows radio resources to be allocated to primary users and to secondary users in such a way that primary system and secondary system are aware of each other. By doing this, sensing of spectrum holes is avoided but the primary users will be protected and will always...
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 network functions (NFs) are deployed over virtualized and shared platforms in data centers. NFV typically requires a higher availability at the carrier grade than conventional cloud-based IT...
5G New Radio (NR) is envisioned to support three broad categories of services: evolved mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). The URLLC services refer to future applications that require secure data communications from one end to another with ultra-high reliability and deadline-based low latency requirements....
In today's datacenters, resource requests from tenants are increasingly transforming into hybrid requests that may simultaneously demand IaaS, Paas, and SaaS resources. This paper tackles the challenge of modeling and deploying hybrid tenant requests in datacenters, for which we coin "networklet" to represent a set of VMs that collaboratively provide a PaaS or SaaS service. Through extracting...
In a high-speed backbone network, the failure of a network link may cause large data losses, so it is necessary to reserve spare network resources for faster recovery. The conventional protection methods to reserve backup routes do not consider the failure probability of each network link, so the same amount of network resources for the backup route are needed regardless of the failure probability...
Despite being industry standard, load balancing via virtual machine (VM) migration methods in modern cloud data centers still exhibit two major performance issues: resulting system load balancing degree and total time till balanced state. Over the years research has been conducted to improve these metrics. Yet due to the fact that these issues influence each other, it has been a challenge to achieve...
In multi-tenant shared clouds, applications of different tenants compete for the shared network and thus suffer significant unpredictability of performance. The progress is an essential metric to measure the overall data transfer rate of a tenant and to indicate how fast a tenant can complete data transfer. Most previous work of network allocation or schedule focus on achieving the tradeoff among...
Virtual network embedding (VNE), which is a significant problem in cloud computing, has gained much attention among many researchers recently. Due to the NP-hardness of VNE, the existing solvers are either inefficient or inaccurate. This paper develops a novel algorithm based on the ant colony system (ACS). To solve the VNE problem, the algorithm structure concentrates on the link mapping from virtual...
Cloud computing has emerged as a powerful and elastic platform for internet service hosting, yet it also draws concerns of the unpredictable performance of cloud-based services due to network congestion. To offer predictable performance, the virtual cluster abstraction of cloud services has been proposed, which enables allocation and performance isolation regarding both computing resources and network...
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