Abstract Software-defined networking (SDN), as a revolutionary networking paradigm,
provides a new solution for future network development and equipment manufacturing by …

Abstract Software-defined networks (SDNs), as an emerging paradigm by separating the
control plane from the data plane, increases flexibility and network utilization and reduces …

Despite the fact that most of the data centers are software-defined, the multifaceted network
architecture and increase in network traffic make data centers to suffer from overhead …

The Internet of Things (IoT) has gained popularity in recent years. Today's IoT applications
are now increasingly deployed in cloud platforms to perform Big Data analytics. In cloud …

In self-organizing systems, such as mobile ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networks, consensus is
a fundamental building block to solve agreement problems. It contributes to coordinate …

The proliferation of cloud data center applications and network function virtualization (NFV)
boosts dynamic and QoS dependent traffic into the data centers network. Currently, lots of …

Due to the partition/aggregate nature of many distributed cloud-based applications, incast
traffic carried by TCP abounds in data center networks. TCP, being agnostic to such …

Failures in networks result in service disruptions which may cause deteriorated Quality of
Service (QoS) for the end-users. Since SDN is becoming the mainstream paradigm for …

In data center networks (DCNs), the presence of long-lived TCP flows tends to bloat the
switch buffers. As a consequence, short-lived TCP-incast traffic suffers repeated losses that …

Data center networks (DCNs) have widely deployed RDMA to support data-intensive
applications such as machine learning. While DCNs are designed with rich multi-path …