La virtualizacion de red es reconocida como una de las principales tecnologías que formara parte del Internet del futuro. Mediante ella, la actual inhabilidad de Internet para desarrollar e implementar nuevos servicios, ...

Waste of energy due to over-provisioning and overdimensioning of network infrastructures has recently stimulated the interest on energy consumption reduction by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). By means of resource ...

The pervasive distribution of digital devices (e.g., laptops, mobile phone, digital camera, music players, RFID, sensors, smart cards) will create a large distributed computational and networking environment that will ...

The power grid has become a critical infrastructure, which modern society cannot do without. It has always been a challenge to keep power supply and demand in balance; the more so with the recent rise of intermittent ...

MANTICORE II follows the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) paradigm to enable National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and other e-infrastructure providers to enhance their service portfolio by building and piloting ...

Bandwidth allocation is one of the main problems in network virtualization. Mechanisms to allocate bandwidth may avoid bottlenecked virtual links. This paper proposes a model based on optimization theory, to distribute the ...

Internet is becoming unable to overcome the challenges required by new services due to the lack of coordination among Internet service providers. This situation, frequently called network ossification, makes increasingly ...

Network virtualization is recognized as an enabling technology for the Future Internet that overcomes network ossification. However, it introduces a set of challenges. In any network virtualization environment, the problem ...