Network operators and researchers constantly search for platforms to evaluate future
deployments and test new research ideas. When experimenting, they usually face …

Traditionally, the networking industry has been dominated by closed and proprietary
hardware and software. Vendors have been controlling the network by hard-coding how …

This paper presents a performance evaluation of the Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip
Time version 2 (BBRv2) TCP congestion control. The experiments are conducted in FABRIC …

This paper describes the development of an Academic Cloud and hands-on virtual
laboratories that run on this cloud. The system has been deployed by the University of South …

The interaction between a complex socio-economic environment and the extremely fast
pace of development of new telecommunication technologies and services justifies the …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are two
paradigms that have attracted much attention in the networking field. The first permits the …

This paper presents a system that mitigates the Round-trip Time (RTT) unfairness issue in
non-programmable networks using P4-programmable data planes. In traditional loss-based …

Round-trip Time (RTT) unfairness arises in traditional TCP loss-based Congestion Control
Algorithms (CCAs) such as CUBIC when flows with shorter RTTs are allocated more …

Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) technology for 5G net-works is promising due to its capability of
supporting high data rates and low-latency communications. Despite such benefits, its …

Multi-domain optical network provisioning is a key focus area as users continue to demand
scalable bandwidth services across wider network regions. To date, a range of distributed …