Unfortunately, current standards and protocols of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are severely inadequate to achieve the architectural design goals of wireless backbone mesh networks because they do not meet evolving network performance and cost requirements. Optimal placement of gateways provides acceptable network bandwidth for mesh users with reasonable investment costs. The focus in this pape...

Novel broadband Internet access technologies will transfer the network bottleneck from the access point (last mile) towards the multimedia servers and backbone networks. Special video applications with there compared to traditional IP services huge demand on bandwidth will stress the multimedia servers, and backbone networks. It is up to the Internet service providers (ISP) to provide new broad...

The past 15 years have seen the rise of the Cloud, along with rapid increase in Internet backbone traffic and more sophisticated cellular core networks. There are three different types of “Clouds:” (1) data center, (2) backbone IP network and (3) cellular core network, responsible for computation, storage, communication and network management. Now the functions of these three types of Clouds ar...

Existing ad hoc routing protocols assume all nodes within the network to participate in the routing process. By conditionally selecting a subset of nodes is an appropriate approach to limiting the number of nodes participating in routing such that nodes not selected may be turned off to conserve power and extend network lifetime. However, not all non-routing-related nodes will be able to be tur...

Traditional attack detection schemes based on packets or flows have very high computational complexity. And, network based anomaly detection schemes can reduce the complexity, but they have a limitation to figure out the pattern of the distributed global scale network attack. In this paper, we propose an efficient and fast method for detecting distributed global-scale network attack symptoms in...