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Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is emerging as a transformative architecture for the next generation of mobile cellular networks. In C-RAN, the Baseband Unit (BBU) is decoupled from the Base Station (BS) and consolidated in a centralized processing center. While the potential benefits of C-RAN have been studied extensively from the theoretical perspective, there are only a few works that address...
Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is a promising framework for the next generation Internet architecture, by exploiting ubiquitous in-network caching to minimize content delivery latency and reducing the network traffic. In this paper, we introduce a neighborhood aware mechanism for content caching, named Neighborhood Aware Caching and Interest Dissemination (NACID) that accounts for the popularity...
The telecom infrastructure is undergoing a huge transformation since operators are deploying their own cloud infrastructure to provide cloud services and enabling Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The resulting infrastructure is referred to as the telecom cloud. NFV decouples network functions from proprietary hardware appliances, so they can be implemented in software and deployed on virtual...
Passive Optical Networks (PONs) with their proven performance in access networks can provide solutions to the challenges facing modern data centres. In this paper, we study a PON architecture where Arrayed Waveguide Grating Routers (AWGRs) and servers are used to route traffic. We optimize the wavelength routing and assignment in the design and show through a benchmark study that the PON data centre...
In order to support large volume of transactions and number of users, as estimated by the load demand modeling, a system needs to scale in order to continue to satisfy required quality attributes. In particular, for systems exposed to the Internet, scaling up may increase the attack surface susceptible to malicious intrusions. The new proactive approach based on the concept of Moving Target Defense...
Distributed file systems enable the reliable storage of exabytes of information on thousands of servers distributed throughout a network. These systems achieve reliability and performance by storing multiple copies of data blocks in different locations across the network. The management of these copies of data is commonly handled by intermediate servers that track and coordinate the placement of data...
Recently, various research projects have focused on developing remote vehicle control based on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). In these projects, the number of vehicles connected to the edge server, which affects vehicle control performance, and computational resources of the edge server are not considered. We have proposed a remote vehicle control system that controls vehicles coordinated with edge...
Federated networks have primarily emerged to support cloud computing services, in order to reduce costs for providers, as well as to increase their incomes. Up to now, the research activity has been mostly focused on architectures and cost models, setting aside technological aspects. In this paper, we propose SDNS, an SDN-system that opens the application fields of federated networks to federated...
We discuss the transmission over short-reach networks employing VCSELs for rack-to-rack optical interconnects in datacenters. The penalties imposed are compensated by DSP at the receiver. We analyze the DSP complexity and we infer on its impact on the BER performance of the system.
Applications making use of embedded systems are anticipated to become extremely important as we advance towards realizing the vision of "Internet of Things" with smart devices such as Raspberry Pi, and compute-anywhere paradigm where principles of distributed systems play pivotal roles. A case we envision here is a distributed network of low powered devices to accomplish various tasks autonomously...
This paper presents an architecture to provide endto- end per-user services with support to client mobility, designed according to the SDN and NFV paradigms. Our service platform dynamically configures and launches service requests when the client connects to the network, which are used by a multidomain orchestration system to arrange the required network configuration and computational resources...
This paper introduces a cost effective scheme for a Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) based on virtualization, which is a technology used to reduce Power Consumption (PC) in the Base Band Unit (BBU pool). The BBU's function is proposed to be as a software application running in a servers, which is called the virtual BBU (vBBU). To asses the proposal scheme, a power model of the BBU pool is proposed...
Today's data center servers are equipped with high speed and complex network adaptors, featuring an array of functions, e.g. hardware TX/RX queues, packet filters, rate limiters, etc. Recent work like IX, Arrakis, MultiStack has made us rekindle the user-level network stacks' innovation utilizing these commodity network adaptors. In this paper, we revisit the idea to move stacks' design from in-kernel...
Public cultural sharing service plays an important role in the public cultural platform. The recommender systems can bring users useful cultural resources and information. For safety and security reasons of the cultural resources, the external applications are not allowed to directly access the original resource data stored in the cultural databases by sending recommendation requests. The cultural...
A scalable, low-latency, high-speed, and energy-efficient datacenter network represents a key element in the deployment of cloud-oriented large-scale datacenters. Photonic switch (PS) architectures can be a solution due to the inherent benefits of optical technology. In this study, we numerically investigate the performance of a packet-switched optical network (PSON) architecture with centralized...
Datacenter networks are becoming crucial foundations for our information technology based society. However, commercial datacenter infrastructure is often unavailable to researchers for conducting experiments. In this work, we therefore elaborate on the possibility of combining commercial hardware and simulation to illustrate the scalability and performance of datacenter networks. We simulate a Datacenter...
As software engineering researchers, we are also zealous tool smiths. Building a research prototype is often a daunting task, let alone building an industry-grade family of tools supporting multiple platforms to ensure the generalizability of results. In this paper, we give advice to academic and industrial tool smiths on how to design and build an easy-to-maintain architecture capable of supporting...
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are specialized computing systems for the control and monitoring of distributed industrial devices. Aiming for a highly connected industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem, PLCopen OPC Unified Architecture (UA) specification has been released. This paper presents the implementation and evaluation of a PLCopen OPC-UA software component for industrial control...
This paper describes the software architecture and the implementation of a fully operational testbed that demonstrates the benefits of flexible, dynamic resource allocation with virtualized LTE-A nodes. The testbed embodies and specializes the general software architecture devised within the Flex5Gware EU project, and focuses on two intelligent programs: the first one is a Global Scheduler, that coordinates...
Current big data cloud systems often use different data migration strategies from providers to customers. This often results in increased bandwidth usage and herewith a decrease of the performance. To enhance the performance often caching mechanisms are adopted. However, the implementations of these caching mechanisms are often dedicated solutions for specific applications and/or use case scenarios...
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