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The promise of Deep Neural Network (DNN) powered Internet of Thing (IoT) devices has motivated a tremendous demand for automated solutions to enable fast development and deployment of efficient (1) DNNs equipped with instantaneous…

In critical infrastructures, communication networks are used to exchange vital data among elements of Industrial Control Systems (ICSes). Due to the criticality of such systems and the increase of the cybersecurity risks in these contexts,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Roberto di Lallo , Federico Griscioli , Gabriele Lospoto , Habib Mostafaei , Maurizio Pizzonia , Massimo Rimondini

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a novel paradigm that out-sources the control of packet-forwarding switches to a set of software controllers. The most fundamental task of these controllers is the correct implementation of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Marco Canini , Petr Kuznetsov , Dan Levin , Stefan Schmid

The evolution of software defined networking (SDN) has played a significant role in the development of next-generation networks (NGN). SDN as a programmable network having service provisioning on the fly has induced a keen interest both in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Sanjeev Singh , Rakesh Kumar Jha

Traditional communication networks consist of large sets of vendor-specific manually configurable devices which are hardwired with specific control logic or algorithms. The resulting networks comprise distributed control plane architectures…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ijaz Ahmad

Language models are increasingly used not only as standalone predictors but also as components in larger inference systems, from test-time reasoning to multi-model collaboration. We study language model networks, where pre-trained language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shiguang Wu , Yaqing Wang , Quanming Yao

Intent-Based Networking (IBN) often leverages the programmability of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to simplify network management. However, significant challenges remain in automating the entire pipeline, from user-specified high-level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Md. Kamrul Hossain , Walid Aljoby

Software-defined networking (SDN) programs must simultaneously describe static forwarding behavior and dynamic updates in response to events. Event-driven updates are critical to get right, but difficult to implement correctly due to the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Jedidiah McClurg , Hossein Hojjat , Nate Foster , Pavol Cerny

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new networking architecture which aims to provide better decoupling between network control (control plane) and data forwarding functionalities (data plane). This separation introduces several…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Moreno Ambrosin , Mauro Conti , Fabio De Gaspari , Radha Poovendran

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a programmable approach for provisioning and managing network resources by defining a clear separation between the control and data forwarding planes. Nowadays SDN has gained significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Redowan Mahmud , Adel N. Toosi , Maria Alejandra Rodriguez , Sharat Chandra Madanapalli , Vijay Sivaraman , Len Sciacca , Christos Sioutis , Rajkumar Buyya

The rapid evolution of network technologies and the growing complexity of network tasks necessitate a paradigm shift in how networks are designed, configured, and managed. With a wealth of knowledge and expertise, large language models…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yudong Huang , Hongyang Du , Xinyuan Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Shuo Wang , Tao Huang

We give the easily recognizable name "cinnamon" and "cinnamon programming" to a new computation model intended to form a theoretical foundation for Control Network Programming (CNP). CNP has established itself as a programming paradigm…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Kostadin Kratchanov

Software defined networking (SDN) represents a promising networking architecture that combines central management and network programmability. SDN separates the control plane from the data plane and moves the network management to a central…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Majd Latah , Levent Toker

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging technology of efficiently controlling and managing computer networks, such as in data centres, Wide Area Networks (WANs), as well as in ubiquitous communication. In this paper, we explore the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Anees Al-Najjar , Furqan Hameed Khan , Marius Portmann

Recently, edge computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to support mobile access in IoT multinetworks. However, coexistence of heterogeneous wireless communication schemes brings about new challenges to the mobility management and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Di Wu , Xiang Nie , Hanhui Deng , Zhijin Qin

Computer networks have become a critical infrastructure. In fact, networks should not only meet strict requirements in terms of correctness, availability, and performance, but they should also be very flexible and support fast updates,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Stefan Schmid , Stefano Vissicchio

With the development of new Internet services such as computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks, the traditional "Best Effort" network transmission mode has been greatly challenged. The network system is urgently required to provide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Qingmin Jia , Yujiao Hu , Xiaomao Zhou , Qianpiao Ma , Kai Guo , Huayu Zhang , Renchao Xie , Tao Huang , Yunjie Liu

In-network computation represents a transformative approach to addressing the escalating demands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads on network infrastructure. By leveraging the processing capabilities of network devices such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aleksandr Algazinov , Joydeep Chandra , Matt Laing

Intent-Based Networking (IBN) aims to simplify network management by enabling users to specify high-level goals that drive automated network design and configuration. However, translating informal natural-language intents into formally…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Anis Bekri , Amar Abane , Abdella Battou , Saddek Bensalem

This paper proposes XML-Defined Network policies (XDNP), a new high-level language based on XML notation, to describe network control rules in Software Defined Network environments. We rely on existing OpenFlow controllers specifically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Mehdi Mohammadi , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Zijiang James Yang