SDN-Enabled Communication Network Framework for Energy Internet

A new SDN-based framework for wireless local area networks

Nowadays wireless networks are becoming important in personal and public communication andgrowing very rapidly. Similarly, Software Dened Network (SDN) is an emerging approach to over-come challenges of traditional networks. In this paper, a new SDN-based framework is proposedto ne-grained control of 802.11 Wireless LANs. This work describes the benets of programmableAcc...

An SDN Approach for an Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Communication Network in Disaster Scenarios

Wireless access technologies have been extensively developed aiming to give users the ability to connect to their expected networks anytime, anywhere. This leads to an increment of the number of wireless interfaces integrated into a single mobile device, hence, it allows the device to be able to connect to multiple access networks. However, in some specific cases such as natural disasters, havi...

Towards Internet of Services – SDN-enabled IMS Architecture for IoT Integration

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is gaining tremendous popularity and the number of connected devices, or “things”, is continuously growing, aiming to transform our everyday life. In order to address the real needs of the end user, the capabilities of the individual “things” have to be combined and offered as “services”. The use of a local cloud of gateways that aggregate and analyze the d...

Small Business Alliances: A Framework for Internet-Enabled Strategic Advantage

The essential difference between small businesses and large corporations is found in their corporate structure. Similarly, the inter-organizational systems (IOSs) formed between small businesses to support strategic alliances and community-like networks have different requirements and functions Ffrom those formed between large corporations. This paper discusses the differences between the IOSs ...

A SOA-Based Framework for Internet-Enabled CRM