Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging networking paradigm that
separates the network control plane from the data forwarding plane with the promise to …

Abstract Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods,
models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This …

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of CONGA, a network-based
distributed congestion-aware load balancing mechanism for datacenters. CONGA exploits …

Network planning is critical to the performance, reliability and cost of web services. This
problem is typically formulated as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problem. Today's …

Recently, deep learning has appeared as a breakthrough machine learning technique for
various areas in computer science as well as other disciplines. However, the application of …

The effects of data center traffic characteristics on data center traffic engineering is not well
understood. In particular, it is unclear how existing traffic engineering techniques perform …

Some embodiments establish for an entity a virtual network over several public clouds of
several public cloud providers and/or in several regions. In some embodiments, the virtual …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networks (SDN) enable
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to place Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to achieve the …

Data center networks usually employ the scale-out model to provide high bisection
bandwidth for applications. A large amount of data is required to be transferred frequently …

The growing network density and unprecedented increase in network traffic, caused by the
massively expanding number of connected devices and online services, require intelligent …