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Software Defined Network (SDN) is the next generation network that decouples the control plane from the data plane of forwarding devices by utilizing the OpenFlow protocol as a communication link between the data plane and the control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-30 MD Samiul Islam , Mojammel Hossain , Mohammed AlMukhtar

Quantum networks must classically exchange complex metadata between devices in order to carry out information for protocols such as teleportation, super-dense coding, and quantum key distribution. Demonstrating the integration of these new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Venkat R. Dasari , Travis S. Humble

A major challenge in blockchain sharding protocols is that more than 95% transactions are cross-shard. Not only those cross-shard transactions degrade the system throughput but also double the confirmation time, and exhaust an already…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Lan N. Nguyen , Truc Nguyen , Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

Data communication in cloud-based distributed stream data analytics often involves a collection of parallel and pipelined TCP flows. As the standard TCP congestion control mechanism is designed for achieving "fairness" among competing flows…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Walid Aljoby , Xin Wang , Tom Z. J. Fu , Richard T. B. Ma

Resource-disaggregated data centre architectures promise a means of pooling resources remotely within data centres, allowing for both more flexibility and resource efficiency underlying the increasingly important infrastructure-as-a-service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Zacharaya Shabka , Georgios Zervas

This paper optimizes the scheduling and routing of the co-flows of MapReduce shuffling phase in state-of-the-art and proposed Passive Optical Networking (PON)-based Data Centre Network (DCN) architectures. A time-slotted Mixed Integer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Sanaa Hamid Mohamed , Ali Hammadi , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar Mohamed Hashim Elmirghani

Optical data center networks (DCNs) are emerging as a promising design for cloud infrastructure. However, existing optical DCN architectures operate as closed ecosystems, tying software solutions to specific optical hardware. We introduce…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yiming Lei , Federico De Marchi , Jialong Li , Raj Joshi , Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran , Yiting Xia

The emergence of intelligent applications and recent advances in the fields of computing and networks are driving the development of computing and networks convergence (CNC) system. However, existing researches failed to achieve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yujiao Hu , Qingmin Jia , Meng Shen , Renchao Xie , Tao Huang , F. Richard Yu

Encryption provides a method to protect data outsourced to a DBMS provider, e.g., in the cloud. However, performing database operations over encrypted data requires specialized encryption schemes that carefully balance security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Masoumeh Shafieinejad , Suraj Gupta , Jin Yang Liu , Koray Karabina , Florian Kerschbaum

Distributed learning is widely used for training large models on large datasets by distributing parts of the model or dataset across multiple devices and aggregating the computed results for subsequent computations or parameter updates.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sijie Fei , Grace Li Zhang , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

Sheaf diffusion has recently emerged as a promising design pattern for graph representation learning due to its inherent ability to handle heterophilic data and avoid oversmoothing. Meanwhile, cooperative message passing has also been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 André Ribeiro , Ana Luiza Tenório , Juan Belieni , Amauri H. Souza , Diego Mesquita

The conventional approach to scaling Software Defined Networking (SDN) controllers today is to partition switches based on network topology, with each partition being controlled by a single physical controller, running all SDN applications.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Yiyang Chang , Ashkan Rezaei , Balajee Vamanan , Jahangir Hasan , Sanjay Rao , T. N. Vijaykumar

Coordination services are a fundamental building block of modern cloud systems, providing critical functionalities like configuration management and distributed locking. The major challenge is to achieve low latency and high throughput…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Xin Jin , Xiaozhou Li , Haoyu Zhang , Nate Foster , Jeongkeun Lee , Robert Soule , Changhoon Kim , Ion Stoica

Modern information technology services largely depend on cloud infrastructures to provide their services. These cloud infrastructures are built on top of datacenter networks (DCNs) constructed with high-speed links, fast switching gear, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ting-Yu Mu , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Khaled Shuaib , Farag M. Sallabi , Junaid Qadir

Software-defined Networking is an approach that decouples the software-based control plane from the hardware-based data plane proposed for enterprise networks; OpenFlow is the most famous flexible protocol that can manage network traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Aladdin Abdulhassan , Mahmood Ahmadi

Recently, the boosting growth of computation-heavy applications raises great challenges for the Fifth Generation (5G) and future wireless networks. As responding, the hybrid edge and cloud computing (ECC) system has been expected as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Jun Du , Chunxiao Jiang , Abderrahim Benslimane , Song Guo , Yong Ren

This paper introduces a novel distributed optimization framework for large-scale AC Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems, offering both theoretical convergence guarantees and rapid convergence in practice. By integrating smoothing techniques…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Xinliang Dai , Yuning Jiang , Yi Guo , Colin N. Jones , Moritz Diehl , Veit Hagenmeyer

The adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) within traditional networks has provided operators the ability to manage diverse resources and easily reconfigure networks as requirements change. Recent research has extended this concept…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Michael Baddeley , Usman Raza , Aleksandar Stanoev , George Oikonomou , Reza Nejabati , Mahesh Sooriyabandara , Dimitra Simeonidou

Relying on the flexible-access interconnects to the scalable storage and compute resources, data centers deliver critical communications connectivity among numerous servers to support the housed applications and services. To provide the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Xuwei Xue , Shaojuan Zhang , Bingli Guo , Wei Ji , Rui Yin , Bin Chen , Shanguo Huang

The rapid growth of AI training has dramatically increased datacenter traffic demand and energy consumption, which has motivated renewed interest in optical circuit switches (OCSes) as a high-bandwidth, energy-efficient alternative for AI…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kevin Liang , Litao Qiao , Isaac Keslassy , Bill Lin