The conventional approach to scaling Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controllers today is to partition switches based on network topology, with each partition being controlled by a single physical controller, running all SDN applications. However, topological partitioning is limited by the fact that (i) performance of latency-sensitive (e.g., monitoring) SDN applications associated with a giv...

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to growth in the ad-hoc networking scenario. With the recent upcoming technologies of network programmability like SDN may be effectively integrated to create a communication platform. In this work, we present the details of our preliminary study of how to determine the effectiveness of an approach to build a cluster network using ...

The rapid rise in popularity of multimedia applications, such as VoIP, IPTV and Video Conferencing, intensifies the need to consider resource management for user satisfaction. Furthermore, improving Quality of Experience (QoE) in Software Defined Networks (SDNs) services is one of the important issues to be addressed by provisioning optimum resource management. In this paper, resource allocatio...

Pregnant rats were injected with 4 mg of testosterone propionate (TP) from days 15 to 22 of pregnancy or a single dose of 4 mg TP on day 17 or 21 of pregnancy. Female offspring treated with TP or the vehicle prenatally were sacrificed at 90 days of age. The volume of the cluster of intensely stained neurons in the medial preoptic area, the "sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area" (SDN-...

Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a new networking paradigm in which the network provides users with content instead of communication channels between hosts. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an approach that promises to enable the continuous evolution of networking architectures. In this paper we propose and discuss solutions to support ICN by using SDN concepts. We focus on an ICN fr...

Plug-and-play information technology (IT) infrastructure has been expanding very rapidly in recent years. With the advent of cloud computing, many ecosystem and business paradigms are encountering potential changes and may be able to eliminate their IT infrastructure maintenance processes. Real-time performance and high availability requirements have induced telecom networks to adopt the new co...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming increasingly popular with the advent of the Internet of things (IoT). Various real-world applications of WSNs such as in smart grids, smart farming and smart health would require a potential deployment of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of sensor nodes/actuators. To ensure proper working order and network efficiency of such a network of sens...

The workshop on Distributed Software-Defined Networking, DSDN, took place in Paris, France, on the 15th of July, just before the 33rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. The workshop intended to be a forum to discuss new algorithmic and distributed computing challenges offered by the emerging field of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). The workshop consisted of invited and pee...

Software-defined networking (SDN) offers unprecedented control over network operation, allowing network operators programmatic control over switches’ forwarding behavior. In the compass-rose metaphor for networks, an SDN controller sends commands that modify switches’ forwarding tables (so-called flowmods), queues, counters, etc., by means of the southbound API. Several different southbound API...

The present study investigated 1) the importance of the aromatization process during the perinatal period for the development of the sexually dimorphic nucleus in the preoptic area of the hypothalamus (SDN-POA) of male rats, and 2) the relationship between SDN-POA volume and parameters of masculinization in male rats that were treated perinatally with the aromatase-inhibitor ATD. Males were tre...