Network virtualization provides a promising tool to allow multiple heterogeneous virtual networks to run on a shared substrate network simultaneously. A long-standing challenge in network virtualization is the Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem: how to embed virtual networks onto specific physical nodes and links in the substrate network effectively. Recent research presents several heuris...

Virtualization has been proposed as a vehicle for overcoming the growing problem of internet ossification [1]. This paper studies the problem of mapping diverse virtual networks onto a common physical substrate. In particular, we develop a method for mapping a virtual network onto a substrate network in a cost-efficient way, while allocating sufficient capacity to virtual network links to ensur...

Virtual substrates with lattice constants in the range mid-way between InAs and InSb have been developed using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The III–V alloys this are of particular interest for narrow bandgap device applications, such as infrared detection. In all cases, GaSb was used real substrate constant increased linear, analog grades GaInSb or AlGaInSb. We determined resulting threading d...

Virtualization has been proposed as a vehicle for overcoming the growing problem of internet ossification [1]. This paper studies the problem of mapping diverse virtual networks onto a common physical substrate. In particular, we develop a method for mapping a virtual network onto a substrate network in a cost-efficient way, while allocating sufficient capacity to virtual network links to ensur...

Network virtualization allows cloud infrastructure providers to accommodate multiple virtual networks on a single physical network. However, mapping multiple virtual network resources to physical network components, called virtual network embedding (VNE), is known to be non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard). Effective virtual network embedding increases the revenue by increasing the ...

FEDERICA is a European project started in January 2008 that created a scalable, Europe-wide, clean slate, infrastructure to support experiments on Future Internet. The key architectural principle is virtualization both in computer systems and in network equipment and circuits. The project “slices” its substrate to offer “virtual infrastructures” (slices) made of computing elements and network r...

Network virtualization opens a promising way to support diverse applications over a shared substrate by running multiple virtual networks. Current virtual data centers in cloud computing have flexible mechanisms to partition compute resources but provide little control over how tenants share the network. This paper proposes a utility-maximization model for bandwidth sharing between virtual netw...

Protease substrate profiling has nowadays almost become a routine task for experimentalists, and the knowledge on protease peptide substrates is easily accessible via the MEROPS database. We present a shape-based virtual screening workflow using vROCS that applies the information about the specificity of the proteases to find new small-molecule inhibitors. Peptide substrate sequences for three ...

There is a growing demand for wireless services with different requirements in a dense and heterogeneous wireless environment. Handling this complex ecosystem is becoming a challenging issue, and wireless virtualization emerges as an efficient solution. Although the inclusion of virtualization in wireless networks ensures a better use of resources, current approaches adopted for wireless virtua...

Network virtualization techniques allow for the coexistence of many virtual networks (VNs) jointly sharing the resources of an underlying substrate network. The Virtual Network Embedding problem (VNE) arises when looking for the most profitable set of VNs to embed onto the substrate. In this paper, we address the offline version of the problem. We propose a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming form...