This paper presents the design and development of a networking laboratory that integrates physical networking equipment with the open source GNS3 network simulators for delivery of practical networking classes simultaneously to both on-campus and online students. This transformation work has resulted in significant increase in laboratory capacity, reducing repeating classes. The integrated plat...

The problems of providing a real, physical specialist laboratory to teach computer networking such as, the lack of funding and physical space and the risks and threats to the network environment and infrastructure, can be solved by the use of a virtual learning environment. Velnet is such a virtual learning environment that we have developed and used successfully. Velnet consists of one or more...

Networking is currently a field of innovation and massive changes driven by several factors, the most prominent of which is the shift to cloud computing. It is already widely understood that networking requirements of cloud computing infrastructures differ from anything that the established networking technologies can offer. We present Distributed Overlay Virtual nEtwork (DOVE), an architecture...

This whitepaper we vision of a new group collaboration infrastructure, the Social Semantic Desktop, drawing from co-evolving research in the Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks, and Online Social Networking. The Social Semantic Desktop is a novel collaboration environment, enabling the creation, sharing and deployment of data and metadata.

This paper presents a vision of how to link entities in the real world with the networking infrastructure to create an integrated mobile computing environment. We describe the challenges and opportunities implied by that linkage, and outline the web-based approach that we have adopted towards them.

SDN and NFV are modern techniques to implement networking infrastructures and can be used also to implement other advanced functionalities, such as the protection architecture designed by the SECURED project. This paper discusses a couple of techniques – trustworthy network infrastructure monitoring and remote attestation of virtual machines – useful towards a trusted and secure usage of SDN an...

The goal of the Monarch Project1 at Carnegie Mellon University is to develop networking protocols and protocol interfaces to allow truly seamless wireless and mobile host networking. The scope of our efforts includes protocol design, implementation, performance evaluation, and usage-based validation, spanning areas ranging roughly from portions of the ISO Data Link layer (layer 2) through the P...

In traditional operating systems, modifying the network protocol code is a tedious and error-prone task, largely because the networking stack resides in the kernel. For this reason, among others, many have proposed moving the networking stack to user-level. Unfortunately, implementations of this design have never entered widespread use due to the impractical requirements they place on the user:...

− Remote maintenance and control is already widely used in industrial automation and building automation and gains acceptance for many other applications, e.g. smart home appliances, consumer electronics, networking devices. Internetand web-based connectivity is playing a major part in unifying network infrastructure and company information flow. However, a number of different implementations h...

This position paper presents SoftINTERNET an initiative for a service-aware and management-aware network control infrastructure for heterogeneous networks (i.e., wired and wireless) that uses software driven features for the elaboration, development, and validation of networking concepts. The proposed infrastructure aims to optimally integrate the connectivity and management layers. It operates...