The software defined networking (SDN) paradigm promises to simplify network configuration and resource management dramatically. Such features are extremely valuable to network operators and therefore, the industrial and the academic research and development communities are paying increasing attention to SDN. Although manufactures of wireless equipment are increasing their involvement in SDN-rel...

Sensors, both large and small, have traditionally been used for measurement and monitoring in a number of basic applications (sensing smoke, fire, or biohazards, or security etc) using fixed networking infrastructure. But networking them using wireless media gives more dynamism and power: they can now be used in remote, autonomous monitoring as well as for mobile environments. Use of wireless s...

Currently, most network packet processing occurs within the confines of the kernel in the Linux system. This reflects the historic nature of a Linux/Unix kernel in that its primary role was as a network host or end-point e.g a web server, or desktop. However, considerable effort is being expended to provide a greater level of packet processing on Linux systems, as more features are required suc...

We argue that the needs of many classes of modern applications, especially those targeted at mobile or wireless computing, demand the services of content-based publish/subscribe middleware, and that this middleware in turn demands a new kind of communication infrastructure for its proper implementation. We refer to this new communication infrastructure as content-based networking. The service m...

Cloud administrators can leverage new technologies to make fundamental changes to data center network infrastructure, reducing costs and improving efficiency, while supporting existing and next generation applications and clients.

Advances in networking technology and an increase in the need for computing resources have prompted many organizations to outsource their storage and computing needs. This new economic and computing model is commonly referred to as cloud computing and includes various types of services such as: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), where a customer makes use of a service provider’s computing, sto...

Mobile wireless computing devices such as cellphones, pagers, personal digital assistants, pocket PCs, and tablet computers are all potential platforms for participating in small group, wireless, many-to-many distributed applications. The networking technology needed to support such applications is readily available. However, almost all existing middleware infrastructure for distributed applica...

Active networking is a general approach to incorporating general-purpose computational capabilities within the communications infrastructure of data networks. This paper studies the key design issues that must be resolved to allow active networking to become a mainstream technology.

We describe a network interface which enables the exchange of control data and communications among laptop performers participating in ensemble improvisation. Design objectives include simplicity, flexibility, and stylistic neutrality, supporting our vision of the network as a resource for the transformation of musical data. Integrated functions include data request/exchange, autonomous status ...

In-network caching is a key feature of contentcentric networking. It is however a relatively costly mechanism with hardware requirements besides placement/replication strategies elaboration. As content-centric networking is proposed in the literature to manage smart grid (SG) communications, we aim, in this research work, to investigate the cost effectiveness of in-network caching in this conte...