Named Data Networking focuses on the communicated data name, fundamentally changing the network task of locating and forwarding information. Additionally, the huge amount of content names challenges the scalability of techniques used for this task. This article proposes a strategy that consolidates the control plane on a dedicated node apart of switches responsible for the data plane. The propo...

Software defined networks (SDN) has been proposed to monitor and manage the communication networks globally. SDN revolutionized the way the communication network managed previously. By segregating the control plane from the data plane, SDN helps the network operators to manage the network flexibly. Since smart grid heavily relies on communication networks, therefore, SDN has also paved its way ...

The properties of ATM networks are explored with a special view to both the local-area and wide-area communications needs of universities and other large organisations. Scenarios for the development, deployment, and impact of ATM network in an internet environment are proposed and discussed. Particular attention is given to the impact on hub and router technology, video and voice distribution, ...

In the ITU-T ASON architecture, the control plane is responsible for providing intelligence to the network. The GMPLS paradigm pleads for a separation between the control plane and the forwarding plane. If the control plane is deployed disjoint from the forwarding plane, recovery mechanisms to ensure its proper operation are required. In this paper, on one hand, a quasi-associated mode backup c...

The fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) will not only enhance mobile broadband services, but also enable connectivity for a massive number of Internet-of-Things devices, such as wireless sensors, meters or actuators. Thus, 5G is expected to achieve a 1000-fold or more increase in capacity over 4G. The use of the millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum is a key enabler to allowing 5G to achieve such...

Certain popular metrics have been used to reflect the instability of the Internet control plane, such as the volume and duration of BGP updates. However, it is unclear whether there is a direct relationship between those metrics and the data plane performance, especially as the Internet is becoming more densely connected and many networks become multi-homed. To clarify this, we measured data st...

Secure virtual networks must provide privacy and avoid denial of service attacks. In this paper, we propose a mechanism which securely isolates virtual networks based on the paradigm of data and control plane separation. The proposal is deployed over XenFlow, a hybrid network virtualization tool that uses both Xen and OpenFlow. The proposed mechanism associates an OpenFlow control application w...

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is one promising architecture paradigm which is a profound shift from address-centric communication model to information-centric one. Although ICN routing has attracted much attention from researchers, there are few researches on improving it inspired by other fields. In this paper, we propose a Routing mechanism for ICN incorporating Software-Defined Networ...

With the rising interest of expedient, safe, and high-efficient transportation, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have turned into a critical technology in smart transportation systems. Because of the high mobility of nodes, VANETs are vulnerable to security attacks. In this paper, we propose a novel framework of software-defined VANETs with trust management. Specifically, we separate the forw...

In this dissertation, we explore the problem of effective traffic engineering of tunnel-based backbone networks. The approach is drawn from the observation that current techniques only account for requirements of the data plane towards engineering of networks. The impact is compounded by the stateful nature of tunnel-based networks. Our approach here is to incorporate control plane requirements...