Supporting end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) in existing network architectures is an
ongoing problem. Although researchers from both academia and industry have proposed …

The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

Software defined networking (SDN) decouples the network control and data planes. The
network intelligence and state are logically centralized and the underlying network …

OpenFlow is a great concept, but its original design imposes excessive overheads. It can
simplify network and traffic management in enterprise and data center environments …

As a result of the development of internet and ICT (information-centric technology) advances
including mobile, cloud, social networking, big data, multimedia and the tendency towards …

Currently many aspects of the classical architecture of the Internet are etched in stone–a so
called ossification of the Internet–which has led to major obstacles in IPv6 deployment and …

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of an API for applications to control a
software-defined network (SDN). Our API is implemented by an OpenFlow controller that …

Due to the development of the Internet and the smart end systems such as smartphones,
portable laptop, and other smart mobile devices, as well as the emergence of concepts such …

OpenFlow is a programmable network protocol and associated hardware designed to
effectively manage and direct traffic by decoupling control and forwarding layers of routing …

Apart from mobile cellular networks, IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks
(WLANs) represent the most widely deployed wireless networking technology. With the …