• Assessing the maturity of SDN controllers with software reliability growth models 

      Vizarreta, Petra; Trivedi, Kishor; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Heegaard, Poul Einar; Blenk, Andreas; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Mas Machuca, Carmen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      In software defined networking (SDN), critical control plane functions are offloaded to a software entity known as the SDN controller. Today's SDN controllers are complex software systems, owing to heterogeneity of networks ...
    • Bitcoin P2P Network Measurements: A testbed study of the effect of peer selection on transaction propagation and confirmation times 

      Gebraselase, Befekadu; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Jiang, Yuming (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Bitcoin is the first and the most extensive decentralized electronic cryptocurrency system that uses blockchain technology. It uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to operate without a central authority and propagate system ...
    • ClusPR: Balancing Multiple Objectives at Scale for NFV Resource Allocation 

      Woldeyohannes, Yordanos Tibebu; Mohammadkhan, Ali; Ramakrishnan, K. K.; Jiang, Yuming (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Network function virtualization (NFV) implements network middleboxes in software, enabling them to be more flexible and dynamic. NFV resource allocation methods can exploit the capabilities of virtualization to dynamically ...
    • Delay-Resistant Geo-Distributed Analytics 

      Mostafaei, Habib; Smaragdakis, Georgios; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Big data analytics platforms have played a critical role in the unprecedented success of data-driven applications. However, real-time and streaming data applications, and recent legislation, e.g., GDPR in Europe, have posed ...
    • Guest Editors Introduction: Special Issue on Advanced Management of Softwarized Networks 

      Kellerer, Wolfgang; Schembra, Giovanni; Hwang, Jinho; Kamiyama, Noriaki; Kang, Joon-Myung; Martini, Barbara; Pasquini, Rafael; Pezaros, Dimitrios; Zhang, Hongke; Zhani, Mohamed Faten; Zinner, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Softwarization of networks is enabled by the SDN (Software-Defined Networking), NV (Network Virtualization), and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) paradigms, and offers many advantages for network operators, service ...
    • Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Smart Management of Future Softwarized Networks 

      Schembra, Giovanni; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Jacquenet, Christian; Kamiyama, Noriaki; Martini, Barbara; Pasquini, Rafael; Pezaros, Dimitrios; Riggio, Roberto; Zhang, Hongke; Zhani, Mohamed Faten; Zinner, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Network softwarization is one of the key enablers of the future Internet evolution, also supporting the road from the fifth generation (5G) to the next-generation communication systems, namely 6G, with their main objective ...
    • Including Failure Correlation in Availability Modeling of a Software-Defined Backbone Network 

      Nencioni, Gianfranco; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Heegaard, Poul Einar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Software-defined networking (SDN) promises to improve the programmability and flexibility of networks, but also brings new challenges that need to be explored. The main objective of this paper is to include failure correlation ...
    • ML-based QoE Estimation in 5G Networks Using Different Regression Techniques 

      Schwarzmann, Susanna; Marquezan, Clarissa Cassales; Trivisonno, Riccardo; Nakajima, Shinichi; Barriac, Vincent; Zinner, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Monitoring and providing customers with a satisfying Quality of Experience (QoE) is a crucial business incentive for mobile network operators (MNOs). While the MNO is capable of monitoring a vast amount of network-related ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • The Power of Composition: Abstracting a Multi-Device SDN Data Path Through a Single API 

      Geissler, Stefan; Herrnleben, Stefan; Bauer, Robert; Grigorjew, Alexej; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Jarschel, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Software Defined Networking aims to separate network control and data plane by moving the control logic from network elements into a logically-centralized controller. Using a well-defined, unified control-channel protocol, ...
    • Towards Consistent SDNS: A Case for Network State Fuzzing 

      Apoorv, Shukla; S. Jawad, Saidi; Stefan, Schmid; Marco, Canini; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The conventional wisdom is that a software-defined network (SDN) operates under the premise that the logically centralized control plane has an accurate representation of the actual data plane state. Unfortunately, bugs, ...
    • VNF Orchestration and Power-disjoint Traffic Flow Routing for Optimal Communication Robustness in Smart Grid with Cyber-Physical Interdependence 

      Kong, Peng-Yong; Jiang, Yuming (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We explore the use of software-defined networking (SDN) technology in building a communication network for smart grid. With cyber-physical interdependence, such communication network may suffer from cross-network cascading ...