This paper addresses the problem of managing highly dynamic network and service
environments, where virtual nodes and virtual links are created and destroyed depending on …

The heterogeneous nature of the applications, technologies and equipment that today's
networks have to support has made the management of such infrastructures a complex task …

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are self-configuring infrastructureless dynamic wireless
networks in which the nodes are resource constrained. Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) …

The Software Defined Networks (SDNs) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFVs), as
recent separate research and development trends have the roots in programmable/active …

Hash-routing is a well-known technique used in server-cluster environments to direct
content requests to the responsible servers hosting the requested content. In this work, we …

In this paper, we propose a new passive OS fingerprinting method which only requires DNS
traffic analysis. The method utilizes characteristics on DNS queries specific to each OS, eg …

There have been continuous efforts and progress regarding the research and development
of future network technologies in recent years, such as network virtualization and software …

The Internet infrastructure is gradually improving its flexibility and adaptability due to the
incorporation of new promising technologies, such as the software-defined networks and the …

Resource over-provisioning is common practice in network infrastructures. Coupled with
energy unaware networking protocols, this can lead to periods of resource underutilization …

The Internet landscape is gradually adopting new communication paradigms characterized
by flexibility and adaptability to the resource constraints and service requirements, including …