• Adopting a cloud-based network: An assessment of Cisco Meraki's ease of implementation 

      Aarøe, Magnus; Banaei, Pegah; Md Nazeri, Siti Aisya Binti (Bachelor thesis, 2023)
      Software Defined Networking er en ny og voksende nettverksarkitektur der kontroll- og dataplanet i nettverksenhetene er separert. Dette har gjort det mulig å administrere nettverksenhetene gjennom et sentralisert kontrollsystem ...
    • CoShare: An Efficient Approach for RedundancyAllocation in NFV 

      Woldeyohannes, Yordanos Tibebu; Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming; Ramakrishnan, K. K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      An appealing feature of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is that in an NFV-based network, a network function (NF) instance may be placed at any node. On the one hand this offers great flexibility in allocation of ...
    • Dependability Modeling, Analysis, and Provisioning of NFV-Supported Services 

      Tola, Besmir (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:248, Doctoral thesis, 2021)
    • Distributed Trust Empowerment for Secure Offline Communications 

      Mæland, Endre; Berbom, Sigmund Bernhard; Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
    • Failure Process Characteristics of Cloud-Enabled Services 

      Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming; Helvik, Bjarne Emil (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The design of cloud computing technologies need to guarantee high levels of availability and for this reason there is a large interest in new fault tolerant techniques that are able to keep the resilience of the systems ...
    • Keeping Connected in Internet-Isolated Locations 

      Skaug, Kirsten Lunde; Smebye, Elise Breivik (Master thesis, 2021)
      I områder rammet av naturkatastrofer, på folksomme konserter og i rurale områder, kan sosiale medier og chatte applikasjoner som krever internettforbindelse bli utilgjengelige. Uten tilkobling til internett blir brukerne ...
    • Keeping Connected in Internet-Isolated Locations 

      Skaug, Kirsten Lunde; Smebye, Elise Breivik; Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming (Chapter, 2022)
    • Keeping Connected in InternetIsolated Locations 

      Skaug, Kirsten Lunde; Smebye, Elise Breivik (Master thesis, 2021)
      I områder rammet av naturkatastrofer, på folksomme konserter og i rurale områder, kan sosiale medier og chatte applikasjoner som krever internettforbindelse bli utilgjengelige. Uten tilkobling til internett blir brukerne ...
    • Keeping Connected When the Mobile Social Network Goes Offline 

      Sigholt, Øystein Løkken; Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming (Chapter, 2019)
      WiFi Direct is an embedded technology in a vast majority of smartphone devices running the Android operating system. As a result, it represents a promising technology that can be exploited in re-establishing connectivity ...
    • Keeping Connected When the Mobile Social Network Goes Offline 

      Sigholt, Øystein Løkken (Master thesis, 2019)
      Dette prosjektets mål er å foreslå, implementere og teste en teknikk som sosiale smarttelefonapplikasjoner kan bruke for å koble sammen brukere i situasjoner der de ikke er i stand til å nå applikasjonsserveren, men nær ...
    • Keeping Connected When the Mobile Social Network Goes Offline 

      Sigholt, Øystein Løkken; Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      WiFi Direct is an embedded technology in a vast majority of smartphone devices running the Android operating system. As a result, it represents a promising technology that can be exploited in re-establishing connectivity ...
    • Keeping connected without the Internet backbone 

      Berbom, Sigmund Bernhard; Mæland, Endre Medhus (Master thesis, 2022)
      Store deler av dagens digitale kommunikasjon er avhengig av en eller flere sentrale enheter som kan sørge for sikker kommunikasjon. Slike enheter er ofte utilgjengelige når internett er utilgjengelig. Utilgjengeligheten ...
    • Keeping connected without the Internet backbone 

      Mæland, Endre Medhus; Berbom, Sigmund Bernhard (Master thesis, 2022)
      Store deler av dagens digitale kommunikasjon er avhengig av en eller flere sentrale enheter som kan sørge for sikker kommunikasjon. Slike enheter er ofte utilgjengelige når internett er utilgjengelig. Utilgjengeligheten ...
    • Model-Driven Availability Assessment of the NFV-MANO with Software Rejuvenation 

      Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming; Helvik, Bjarne Emil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Network Function Virtualization enables network operators to modernize their networks with greater elasticity, network programmability, and scalability. Exploiting these advantages requires new and specialized designs for ...
    • Modeling and Evaluating NFV-Enabled Network Services under Different Availability Modes 

      Tola, Besmir; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Jiang, Yuming (Chapter, 2019)
      Network and Telecom operators are continuously embracing the adoption of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) as a means to provide more agile, flexible and cost-efficient services. Many telecommunication services need ...
    • Modeling and Provisioning Highly Available NFV Services 

      Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming (Chapter, 2022)
      The ubiquitous deployment of middleboxes can hamper the network capability to be flexible, scalable and innovative to an extent that new and specialized services cannot be easily introduced in the network. Network Function ...
    • Network-Aware Availability Modeling of an End-to-End NFV-Enabled Service 

      Tola, Besmir; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Helvik, Bjarne Emil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represents a key shift in nowadays network service provisioning by entailing higher flexibility, elasticity, and programmability of network services. Dependability is one of the main ...
    • On Monolithic and Microservice deployment of Network Functions 

      Sharma, Sachin; Uniyal, Navdeep; Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming (Chapter, 2019)
      Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has recently attracted telecom operators to migrate network functionalities from expensive bespoke hardware systems to virtualized IT infrastructures where they are deployed as software ...
    • On the Resilience of the NFV-MANO: An Availability Model of a Cloud-native Architecture 

      Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming; Helvik, Bjarne Emil (Chapter, 2020)
      With Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the management and orchestration of network services require a new set of functionalities to be added on top of legacy models of operation. Due to the introduction of the ...
    • Towards Carrier-Grade Service Provisioning in NFV 

      Woldeyohannes, Yordanos Tibebu; Tola, Besmir; Jiang, Yuming (Chapter, 2019)
      Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology that reduces cost and brings flexibility in the provisioning of services. NFV-based networks are expected to be able to provide carrier-grade services, which ...