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Multicast can jointly utilize the network resources when delivering the same content to a set of destinations; hence, it can effectively reduce the consumption of network resources more than individual unicast. The source of a multicast, however, does not need to be in a specific location as long as certain constraints are satisfied. This means the multicast can have uncertain sources, which could...
As many applications today migrate to distributed computing and cloud platforms, their user experience depends heavily on network performance. Software Defined Networking (SDN) makes it possible to obtain a global view of the network, introducing the new paradigm of developing adaptive applications with network views. A naive approach of realizing the paradigm, such as distributing the whole network...
Recent years have witnessed a new content delivery paradigm named crowdsourced CDN, in which devices deployed at edge network can prefetch contents and provide content delivery service. Crowdsourced CDN offers high-quality experience to end-users by reducing their content access latency and alleviates the load of network backbone by making use of network and storage resources at millions of edge devices...
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...
To take advantage of software defined networking (SDN) within a limited budget constraint, a natural strategy is to incrementally deploy a few SDN switches (and a limited amount of additional link bandwidth) into the legacy optical network. In such a hybrid optical network, operators can only change the routes of flows that traverse SDN switches. Therefore, to optimize SDN deployment, it is essential...
In this paper, we propose a novel data center network architecture named FFTree. Compared to widely adopted industrial solutions including fat-tree, this architecture can provide even higher aggregate bandwidth and richer path availability. Most importantly, FFTree provisions unique flexibility so that its topology and performance can be tailored with great freedom before its deployment. The fine...
Increasing bulk data transfers have been overwhelming the Internet. To overcome this, optical circuit-switched (OCS) networks are equipped with assistive storage, so that bulk data that are delay tolerant can be temporarily stored at intermediate nodes and forwarded at later times. But, the use of storage greatly complicates the routing problem, since data storage must be incorporated into routing...
Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) has witnessed significant attention from academia and industries, due to the growing number of applications and devices focusing on safety and efficiency in transportation. Video Streaming in Vehicular Communication (VSVC) presents interactive real-time view of an emergency incidence on roads. On-board unit of vehicles are utilized for streaming real time video of...
We introduce structural transformations that allow simplifying a given network while preserving its original “bandwidth” and “routing” capabilities, transparently to specific allocations. We minimize a certain objective such as the aggregate capacity of network links, number of nodes, or number of links, in such a way that all the bandwidth that could be routed in the original network can also be...
With software-defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) techniques, we can embed the service chain consisting of a sequence of virtualized network functions (VNFs), i.e., we can determine the flow path and deploy the VNFs contained in the service chain at any place on the path. In the literature, the methods of service chain embedding bound the number of VNFs at a node, whereas...
In this paper the mathematical model of multicast routing of flows with support shared explicit reservation of link resources is proposed. The proposed model consists of a linear expressions, which are responsible for providing the connectivity of the calculated multicast routes, and also the absence of loops in them. The novelty of the model is the using of conditions of prevention the congestion...
The paper proposes a method of hierarchical QoS routing based on reservation of network resources. It describes the case of organization of distributed source routing when one of the border routers consistently solves two interconnected network tasks: calculation of the required routes and determination of the allocation order of link resource to be reserved in order to meet end-to-end QoS-requirements...
The Fast ReRoute flow-based model has been improved, where the node and link protection schemes in the linear form were formulated with the implementation of single path and multipath routing strategies. The use of linear-quadratic optimality criterion was substantiated, and the system hierarchy relations of weight coefficients in the objective function were determined with the aim to ensure maximum...
The current Internet should not only support simple packet forwarding, but also be able to provide diverse network functions to compose different routing services on the communication paths for network applications. Meanwhile, the user requirements for different applications are becoming more and more diversified, it is a challenge to distinguish the differences among these requirements in order to...
In recent years, software-defined networking (SDN) has been adopted in practice, such as the fast-growing market of software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN). Intent, an emerging concept for SDN, aims to provide a simple interface for operators to manage the network. Under the framework of intent, an application submits a request by specifying the objective only, and the SDN controller decides...
Thanks to the abundant available bandwidth and multiple paths on wide-area links that interconnect datacenters on major cloud platforms, it is conceivable that bandwidth-intensive applications may improve their performance by relaying their traffic through such an inter-datacenter network. We propose Stemflow, a new systems framework that provides Inter-Datacenter Overlay as a Service. It is provided...
In this paper, we investigate multi-quality of service (QoS) routing and spectrum assignment in elastic optical networks (EONs) by utilizing network state information in terms of bandwidth usage and holding time of established connections. Toward this aim, two types of traffic, namely big data traffic (BDT) requests, and fixed rate flow requests (FLRs) are considered, where BDTs can tolerate a pre-determined...
Typically, in low-power and lossy networks nodes communicate with servers over the Internet. Nodes collaborate wirelessly to relay their data to a gateway. A large-scale network can have multiple gateways. Selecting a proper gateway can have an immense impact on the network's performance. In this paper, we present joint routing and gateway selection protocols for low-power and lossy networks. To analyse...
A lot of researches exploit the flexibility of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to conduct traffic engineering in order to improve network performance and enhance robustness to failures. As the upgrade of a traditional network to a full SDN deployment is an incremental process, the coexistence of SDN switches and legacy switches forms a hybrid SDN. Due to the different forwarding characteristics...
Many different types of applications simultaneously execute in current data centers (DCs). To provide low cost and improved performance, each application is typically deployed in distributed DCs. Tasks of users around the world first go through Internet service providers (ISPs) which deliver data between distributed DCs and users. However, capacities and bandwidth cost of different ISPs vary. Besides,...
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