Towards a Feasible Active Networking Scenario

Towards sustainable growth of enterprises: a supply chain design

Supply chain design has a crucial role in the prosperity and sustainable growth of enterprises. Network and innovation mutual relationship shapes the orientation and design of the supply chain. Networks are means of securing access to the resources, information and support. A number of studies have examined the relationship between networks and innovation, and show a positive relation between t...

Active Networks: Towards Service Enabling Unified Net- works

Mounting competition among service providers is making it imperative for the providers to introduce new services and extend features of their existing ones to attract new customers. On the other hand, competition among network equipment vendors, such as Nortel Networks, is driving Network Elements to become a commodity item. In this scenario, the major revenue generator for Nortel will be to pr...

Towards an Opportunistic, Socially-driven, Self-organizing, Cloud Networking Architecture with NovaGenesis

The exponential growth on the number of mobile devices and their capabilities are leveraging new possibilities of networking architectures for processing, storing, and exchanging of information. At a glance, existing architectures take advantage of these devices, the social behavior of their users, and/or the dynamicity on resource usage. Despite of the potential of existing initiatives, they d...

Application of agent technology to next generation wireless/mobile networks

Wireless communication systems beyond the third generation will be diverse. It can be expected that several different radio technologies as well as several classes of mobile devices running a variety of applications will be deployed, while the Internet Protocol (IP) will play the role of the unifying architectural component. To cope with the described diversity, networking paradigms like progra...

Active IP Networking : Towards Self - organized