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The content delivery network (CDN) intensively uses cache to push the content close to end users. Over both traditional Internet architecture and emerging cloud-based framework, cache allocation has been the core problem that any CDN operator needs to address. As the first step for cache deployment, CDN operators need to discover or estimate the distribution of user requests in different geographic...
Network virtualization and SDN-based routing allow carriers to flexibly configure their networks in response to demand and unexpected network disruptions. However, cellular networks, by nature, pose some unique challenges because of user mobility and control/data plane partitioning, which calls for new architectures and provisioning paradigms. In this paper, we address the latter part by devising...
This paper addresses the problem of service function chaining in a network. Currently, problems of chaining services in a network (i.e., service function chaining) can be broadly categorised into middlebox placement in a network and packet steering through middleboxes. In this work, we propose a One Pass Packet Steering (OPPS) approach for use in multi-subscriber environments, with the aim of reducing...
Information Centric Networks (ICN) is very promising for Internet of Things (IoT) deployment, where the data-centric approach is useful in reducing the data retrieval latency as well as the network traffic for IoT services. Also, the innetwork caching capabilities in ICN limits the massive data access to the data producers and so relaxes the need of continuous connectivity E2E connectivity between...
Datacenter networks (DCNs) play an important role in supporting cloud computing and Internet-based services. The cost and power consumption of a DCN grow rapidly with the increases of network scale and bandwidth requirement. The cost, complexity and efficiency of a DCN are determined by several design factors including the topology, addressing and routing. In this paper, we propose a simple and cost-effective...
Increasing over-the-top video consumption endangers the sustainability of content delivery over the Internet. Internet Service Providers (ISP) face difficulties in competing on value-added services with content providers and Content Delivery Network (CDN) operators. In this respect, we propose a new model for the collaboration between content delivery stakeholders, so that CDN operators can deploy...
With Emergence of broadband access networks and powerful personal computer systems the demand for network-delivered full-motion streaming video is growing. People upload their home made videos. Different companies have started to offer software as service. Data traffic is increasing each day at an unprecedented rate creating congestion on the backbone part of the network. Backbone network congestion...
We propose a method of constructing a layer 3 (L3) network that consists of a large number of virtual machines (VMs) for a large-scale IoT emulation testbeds by utilizing Hierarchical/Automatic Number Allocation Protocol (HANA). The L3 network consists of several subnets, and suppresses the number of MAC addresses that must be distinguished from each other. HANA releases a burden of an L2 switch,...
Data center networks (DCNs) continuously evolve to support emerging applications. For instance, server-centric architectures are becoming popular because they improve the modularity and resilience of data centers. In a server-centric DCN, switching functionalities are embedded in each server instead of in dedicated switches. Recently, wireless technologies have been introduced into the design of server-centric...
This article presents a new model and a resolution algorithm, based on Tabu Search, for the assignment of Virtual Machines (VMs) to servers in a data center. We propose a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model that optimizes the Quality of Service (QoS) and power consumption of applications, taking into account their communication traffic and dynamic aspects. A hierarchic method and a Tabu Search heuristic...
Prior load balancing solutions for chaining virtualized network functions cause significant control and data plane overheads and demand special requirements on network hardware. In this study, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of Hash-based Traffic Steering on Softswitches (HATS), a load balancing mechanism that aims at mitigating such drawbacks. The method exploits flow hashing...
In this paper, we investigate the performance analysis and synthesis of distributed system throttlers (DST). A throttler is a mechanism that limits the flow rate of incoming metrics, e.g., byte per second, network bandwidth usage, capacity, traffic, etc. This can be used to protect a service's backend/clients from getting overloaded, or to reduce the effects of uncertainties in demand for shared services...
Data centers are experiencing tremendous growth in the number of servers and networking devices with an increase in traffic to cloud infrastructures. Data center network (DCN) topology plays an important role in providing acceptable level of performance to cloud applications. This paper presents the results of a simulation studies comparing the performance of several well-known DCN topologies under...
In this demonstration we present MiniNAM, a utility that provides real-time animation of networks created by the Mininet emulator. Mininet is one of the most well-known network emulators in research and academia. Although Mininet is capable of emulating both traditional and software-defined networks, it does not provide a tool to visually observe and monitor the packets flowing over the created network...
Recently, Software Defined Network (SDN) technology has become widely used to take advantage of its features, including capabilities for optimization, flexibility, and customization. Many companies and organizations are applying this technology to build SDN networks for testbeds or production networks to address their requirements for optimization and customization. Currently, north bound and south...
Virtualization technology can readily change the placement of an execution environment, such as a virtual machine (VM), in accordance with the current statuses. To effectively manage system resources in the virtualized infrastructure, the elasticity of a virtualized infrastructure has attracted significant attention for determining on which server VM should be deployed. However, there has been little...
Most Information Technology (IT) services nowadays rely on one or multiple data centers. In this paper, we propose a Quality of Service (QoS) scheme for Intra/Inter data center communications systems. The proposed scheme is based on differentiation of traffic into different class categories. The differentiation is based on the source of traffic as well as the specific traffic's requirements. We conduct...
Designing a cost-effective network topology for data centers that can deliver sufficient bandwidth and consistent latency performance to a large number of servers has been an important and challenging problem. Many server-centric data center network topologies have been proposed recently due to their significant advantage in cost-efficiency and data center agility, such as BCube, FiConn and BCN. However,...
In datacenter networks, big scale, high performance and fault-tolerance, low-cost, and graceful expandability are pursued features. Recently, random regular networks, as the Jellyfish, have been proposed for satisfying these stringent requirements. However, their completely unstructured design entails several drawbacks. As a related alternative, in this paper we propose Random Folded Clos (RFC) networks...
Video on Demand (VoD) streaming constitutes a continuously increasing proportion of the global IP traffic. Conventional streaming approaches use a client-server topology, where one server or a group of servers serve all the clients. The main drawbacks of this technology is poor scalability. An alternative is the well known Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network topology which addresses this problem. However,...
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