Achieving energy efficiency has recently become an essential aim of networking research due to the ever increasing power consumption and CO2 emissions generated by large data networks. For this problem, the emerging paradigm ...

To ensure a proficient topology discovery service in Software-Defined Networks (SDN), we propose a simple agents-based mechanism to improve the efficiency of the topology discovery process. In this work, an algorithm for ...

In this paper we address the issue of designing a novel distributed routing algorithm that optimizes the power consumption in large scale software-defined networks (SDN) with multiple domains. The solution proposed, called ...

Virtual Data Centre (VDC) solutions provide an environment that is able to quickly scale-up and where virtual machines and network resources can be quickly added on-demand through self-service procedures. VDC providers ...

Energy consumption is a key concern in the deployment and operation of current data networks, for which Software-Defined Networks (SDN) have become a promising alternative. Although several works have been proposed to ...

Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing is a key technology, based on Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), which aims at providing a more efficient utilization of the available network ...

Software-Defined Networks (SDN) can be seen as a promising alternative to achieve the long-awaited power efficiency in current communications systems. In these programmable networks a power-aware mechanism could be easily ...

The explosion of Internet services such as video on demand, big data, server virtualization and cloud services is among the trends driving the networking industry to change traditional network architectures to more flexible ...

Internet service providers and telecommunications operators have traditionally deployed networks installing various hardware appliances linked together using physical static links, these devices are configured through a ...

Many of today's telecommunications systems rely on strict timing and synchronization requirements. This is the case of cellular telephony (3G, 4G/LTE), where base stations need accurate and stable frequency clocks in order ...