Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains.
These are particularly useful in applications, where human lives would otherwise be …

One of the primary architectural principles behind the Internet is the use of distributed
protocols, which facilitates fault tolerance and distributed management. Unfortunately …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is widely considered as one of the next
generation network architecture. However, SDN faces with a series of issues which restraint …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm that has become increasingly
popular in recent years. The core idea is to separate the control and data planes, allowing …

Current implementations of Internet systems are very hard to be upgraded. The ossification
of existing standards restricts the development of more advanced communication systems …

A promising approach for dealing with the increasing demand of data traffic is the use of
device-to-device (D2D) technologies, in particular when the destination can be reached …

Emerging network services and subsequent growth in the networking infrastructure have
gained tremendous momentum in recent years. Application performance requiring rapid real …

The Internet is inherently a multipath network: For an underlying network with only a single
path, connecting various nodes would have been debilitatingly fragile. Unfortunately …

SDN has been envisioned as the next generation network paradigm by decoupling control
plane and data plane, such that network management and optimization can be conducted in …

To meet the challenging key performance indicators of the fifth generation (5G) system, the
network infrastructure becomes more heterogeneous and complex. This will bring a high …