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The concept of energy-efficient networking is beginning to become popular in the past few years, gaining increasing importance. Besides the widespread sensitivity to ecological issues, such interest also stems from economic needs, since both energy costs and electrical requirements of telecom providers and Internet Service Providers' infrastructures around the world show a continuously growing trend...
Measuring the attack damage cost and monitoring the sequence of privilege escalations play a critical role in choosing the right countermeasure by Intrusion Response System (IRS). The existing attack damage cost evaluation approaches inherit some limitations, such as neglecting the dependencies between system assets, ignoring the backward damage of exploited non-goal services, or omitting the potential...
Community Network Cloud is an emerging distributed cloud infrastructure that is built on top of a community network. The infrastructure consists of a number of geographically distributed compute and storage resources, contributed by community members, that are linked together through the community network. Stream processing is an important enabling technology that, if provided in a Community Network...
In the software defined networks (SDNs), the Open-Flow protocol is typically used as the southbound API in manipulating OpenFlow switches. However, the OpenFlow control messages are in a low abstraction level. Therefore, even a single application-level operation requires many OpenFlow messages, which consume the bandwidth of the control network and reduce the SDN's scalability. One potential solution...
There is a growing trend for service providers (SPs) to migrate their multi-tier applications from local clusters to public cloud networks. In the cloud environment, it is a great concern of SPs to improve the availability of their virtual networks, in addition to guarantees of their virtual resource requirements, such as VMs and bandwidth. However, meeting these requirements results in an inefficient...
This paper proposes an adaptive virtual machine (VM) assignment scheme for multi-tenant data center networks. In multi-tenant data centers, tenants submit their resource requirements and the data centers provide VMs which are assigned to physical servers. These VMs communicate with each other to execute distributed processing. The amount of traffic communicated by VMs is very large and this is one...
It is important for service providers to design and operate reliable network which is robust against network failures. Especially, a network must be sufficiently connected, even if link failures occur. It is desirable to protect all links so that the failure probability of a link is sufficiently small by sufficient backup resource and rapid recovery system. However, link protection needs much cost;...
The study presented in this paper investigated online data loss in a substation automation system (SAS) under network faults or failures. Online data loss refers to the amount of data that become inaccessible when a failure occurs in the SAS. It is a mathematical index related to the network's topology and architecture, and the calculation of which requires knowledge of the physical characteristics...
With exponential growth of the Internet traffic, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have started to look for alternatives to meet the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that have been promised to the customers. ISPs and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) when merged together can deliver the content much faster and efficient by making the best use of the resources and also reduces the traffic within the...
Cloud computing has been widely used to provide services such as search, social networks, and distributed storage systems. Data centers are built to support the requests of cloud applications which generally adopt multi-layer partition/aggregation workflow pattern. In this multi-hop environment with dual-homed topology, the aggregator needs to wait for all responses from the works to generate final...
ICT is currently responsible for 4% of the EU's carbon emission. In this industry, data centers are growing quickly to supply the escalating services and application demands. The design of high performance and energy-efficient data center networks is an important issue while still being confronted with many challenges such as scalability, reliability, etc. On the other hand, the network devices' difference...
Load balancing in data centers have been a common practice in the last couple of decades. This has been done statically in traditional networks with little or no feedback information from the underlying network state. With the current large cloud data centers and continuous changing traffic patterns, the drive for more interactive and dynamic solution to reduce the latency and improve the network...
Massive data centers form the core infrastructure support for the ever increasing cloud based services. Hence, the performance of data centers will have important influence on the scalability of these services. In particular, the data center network must be agile, available and scalable in order to respond to ever changing service requirements and application demands. Thus, the research community...
Software-Defined Networking not only addresses the shortcoming of traditional network technologies in dealing with frequent and immediate changes in cloud data centers but also made network resource management open and innovation-friendly. To further accelerate the innovation pace, accessible and easy-to-learn testbeds are required which estimate and measure the performance of network and host capacity...
The number of data centers has been increased for various reasons such as cloud computing, big-data analysis, multimedia service, etc. With public interests on data center, many novel technologies for data center networks have been proposed and deployed to support data center operations more efficiently and effectively. However, the construction of data center network incurs significant costs. Moreover,...
The transmission bandwidth consumed by delivering rich content is enormous, so it is urgent for Internet service providers to design an efficient delivery system that minimizes the amount of network resources consumed, i.e., minimizing the hop length of delivery flows. Content delivery networks are widely used to reduce the flow hop length and the response time when obtaining content items. To improve...
SDN proposes a logically centralized architecture where the control entity (SDN controller) is responsible for providing an abstraction of network resources through Application Programming Interfaces (API). This abstraction enables SDN to perform network virtualization, that is, to slice the physical infrastructure and create multiple co-existing network slices (virtual networks) independent of the...
The migration of network functions (NFs) into virtualized network infrastructures brings significant benefits to enterprise networks, while creating opportunities for new cloud service models (i.e., NF-as-a-Service). Network service embedding (NSE) entails serious challenges, stemming from middle-box policies prescribed by network operators and the implications of NFs on network traffic (i.e., bandwidth...
Software Defined Networking is one of the most promising approaches to the deployment of future network infrastructures. The most of the Internet service providers have to deal with a number of configurations to a crescent amount of network devices. SDN is a paradigm that proposes the separation of data forwarding plane from the data control plane. OpenFlow is an standard protocol used in SDN for...
Network functions are widely deployed in modern networks, providing various network services ranging from intrusion detection to HTTP caching, for the purpose of performance, security or policy compliance. According to a recent survey [6], network function deployments are ubiquitous: on par with the number of L3 infrastructures. Application or user requirements may specify policies that require flows...
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