Hybrid ARQ/FEC protocols have been proposed to provide high data link integrities whilst keeping at the same time a high mean throughput rate. Nevertheless, hybrid ARQ strategies offer a lot of choices and none of them can ...

We present an approach for deploying and subsequently managing a virtual network overlay, which is tailored to an end-user’s request. Our approach combines a binary integer optimisation process to decide on the number and ...

This paper describes a new Supervisory Control System (SCS) which adopts a dynamic polling structure. The need for a thinking unit at the line head for manaing a SCS is unavoidable. The thinking unit (mP) moreover, allows ...

In this work, we propose a novel intra-flow network coding solution, which is based on the combination of a low overhead Random Linear Coding (RLC) scheme and UDP, to offer a reliable communication service. In the initial ...

Network slicing has recently been proposed as one of the main enablers for 5G networks; it is bound to cope with the increasing and heterogeneous performance requirements of these systems. To "slice" a network is to partition ...

New architectural and design approaches for radio access networks have appeared with the introduction of network virtualization in the wireless domain. One of these approaches splits the wireless network infrastructure ...

In Network Virtualization Environments, the capability of operators to allocate resources in the Substrate Network (SN) to support Virtual Networks (VNs) in an optimal manner is known as Virtual Network Embedding (VNE). ...