Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking

The presented paper deals with wireless networks composed of FSO (free space optics) links supported by terrestrial optical fiber connections in order to increase resilience to adverse weather conditions. An FSO link realizes, at low ...

In Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), service providers create customized network services by chaining Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in forwarding graphs, according to individual client demands. Despite the flexibility promoted ...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a promising network that is anticipated to be, adaptable, cost-effective, and able to provide safety, infotainment, and related services on the road via inter-vehicle or vehicle-to-roadside unit ...

Existing network virtualization systems share a few characteristics, namely they target one data center of a single operator and only offer traditional networking services. As such, their support for critical applications that need to ...

For the ITU-R defined enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) type of generic services, 5G systems will deploy mmWave communications in indoor environments and open area scenarios in outdoor environment. Besides very high path-losses and ...

SDN-based cloud adopts Software-defined Networking (SDN) to provide network services to the cloud, which allows more flexibility in network management. Meanwhile, the SDN controller provides users and administrators with various APIs ...

More and more mobile devices join in the wireless networks, it has become a challenging problem how to mitigating the interferences and improving the energy efficiency in dynamic wireless communication environment. In this paper, a ...

In many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications, where a plethora of nodes are deployed to sense physical phenomena, erroneous measurements could be generated mainly due to the presence of harsh environments and/or to the depletion ...

Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) is a novel MCS paradigm which allows us to use the mobile devices to collect sensing data from only a small subset of cells (sub-areas) in the target sensing area while intelligently inferring the data ...

Today, datacenter providers spend a lot of money on inter-datacenter WANs to transmit traffic flows between geographically distributed datacenter sites. It is very important for datacenter providers to design resource scheduling ...

Application performance and energy consumption deep exposed to task scheduling of nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Unreasonable task scheduling of nodes leads to excessive network energy consumption. Thus, a Q-learning ...

The packet delivery ratio and energy consumption serve as important performance metrics for delay tolerant mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), where there are not continuous end-to-end paths between mobile nodes. Available these ...

As the conventional definition, the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) build surrogate servers on top of the Internet architecture to provide contents to the end users as fast as possible. However, the high client requests lead to ...

The paper considers deploying a flying robotic network to monitor mobile targets in an area of interest for a specific time period. Each flying robot carries a battery with limited initial energy and a camera with a fixed visible ...

The Dual Connectivity (DC) technology has gained a lot of momentum as an underlying fundamental concept for the deployment of multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT) 5G mobile networks based on the tight interworking between the Long Term ...

This paper aims at precisely detecting and identifying anomalous events in IP traffic. To this end, we adopt the link stream formalism which properly captures temporal and structural features of the data. Within this framework, we ...

• This paper is the first to adopt custom password computation algorithm and dynamic password for WBANs.

With the development of wireless technologies, wireless body area networks (WBANs) are widely used in various applications. WBANs bring convenience to both patients and physicians by permitting patients to enjoy high-quality medical ...

Currently, we have witnessed that networked control technology has played a key role in Internet of Things (IoT). However, the volume, variety and velocity properties of big data from IoT make the traditional networked control systems (...

Recently, network virtualization is considered as a promising solution for the future Internet which can help to overcome the resistance of the current Internet to fundamental changes. The problem of embedding Virtual Networks (VN) in ...

Software-defined networking has stimulated the worldwide interests in both academia and industry for its proven advantages. However, switches in data plane are more vulnerable due to malicious attacks. Consequently, the network may ...

A coal mine tunnel usually has a long-strip shape. Traditional single-sink cyber-physical-systems (CPS) cannot ensure that sensor nodes far from the entrance of a coal mine tunnel promptly and accurately transmit abnormal data from ...