Autonomic network management is a promising approach to reduce the cost and the
complexity of managing network infrastructures. It attempts to lead the human administrator …

Abstract IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a next generation network that provides the
hypermedia services as data, voice and video to users. Due to high level requirements for …

Clearly, whether revolutionary/clean-slate approaches or evolutionary approaches should
be followed when designing Future Multi-Service Self-Managing Networks, some holistic …

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has presented a unique networking paradigm to
develop network innovations and address the issues discovered by distributed network …

In large scale decentralized and dynamic networks such as Peer-to-Peer ones, being able to
deal with quality of service requires the establishment of a decentralized, autonomous and …

Advances in technology have enabled a proliferation of mobile devices and a broad
spectrum of novel and outbreaking solutions for new applications and services. The …

Recent endeavors in addressing the challenges of the current and future Internet pursue a
clean slate design methodology. Simultaneously, it is argued that the Internet is unlikely to …

Existing solutions for gossip-based aggregation in peer-to-peer networks use epochs to
calculate a global estimation from an initial static set of local values. Once the estimation …

Over the last few years, autonomic network and service management has emerged as a
serious alternative to traditional management approaches. In these systems, distributed …

Availability is one of the main characteristics of Internet security and hence attacks against
networks increase trying to stop services on servers. Distributed denial of service attacks are …