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A composable infrastructure is defined as resources, such as compute, storage, accelerators and networking, that are shared in a pool and that can be grouped in various configurations to meet application requirements. This freedom to 'mix…

There is a continuous growth in demand for time sensitive applications which has shifted the cloud paradigm from a centralized computing architecture towards distributed heterogeneous computing platforms where resources located at the edge…

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The state-of-the-art topologies of datacenter networks are fixed, based on electrical switching technology, and by now, we understand their throughput and cost well. For the past years, researchers have been developing novel optical…

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The interconnection network comprises a significant portion of the cost of large parallel computers, both in economic terms and power consumption. Several previous proposals exploit large-radix routers to build scalable low-distance…

We propose network coding as an energy efficient data transmission technique in core networks with non-bypass and bypass routing approaches. The improvement in energy efficiency is achieved through reduction in the traffic flows passing…

The introduction of cloud data centres has opened new possibilities for the storage and processing of data, augmenting the limited capabilities of peripheral devices. Large data centres tend to be located away from the end users which…

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The cost and limited capacity of fronthaul links pose significant challenges for the deployment of ultra-dense networks (UDNs), specifically for cell-free massive MIMO systems. Hence, cost-effective planning of reliable fronthaul networks…

One of the most demanding challenges for the designers of parallel computing architectures is to deliver an efficient network infrastructure providing low latency, high bandwidth communications while preserving scalability. Besides off-chip…

As large scale deployment of smart devices in the power grid continues, research efforts need to increasingly focus on efficient communication of generated information. This paper describes a strategy for static routing and scheduling of…

Inland waterway transportation network significantly supports the overall freight transportation of the nation. In order to ensure efficient and timely commodity transportation through this network, this study aims at developing a reliable…

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient passive optical network (PON) architecture for backhaul connectivity in indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems. The proposed network is used to support a fog computing architecture…

This paper considers the problem of scheduling uplinks and downlinks transmissions in an Internet of Things (IoT) network that uses a mode-based time structure and Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA). Further, devices employ power…

While new forms of attacks are developed every day to compromise essential infrastructures, service providers are also expected to develop strategies to mitigate the risk of extreme failures. In this context, tools of Network Science have…

Inspired by the Statistical Physics of complex networks, wireless multihop ad hoc communication networks are considered in abstracted form. Since such engineered networks are able to modify their structure via topology control, we search…

In this work, multi-step traffic predictions are leveraged to enable multi-period planning in reconfigurable optical networks. The proposed framework aims to achieve spectrum savings by adapting the network to predicted time-varying…

A disaster may not necessarily demolish the telecommunications infrastructure, but instead it might affect the national grid and cause blackouts, consequently disrupting the network operation unless there is an alternative power source(s).…

In this paper, we utilize Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models to compare the energy efficiency and performance of a server-centric Passive Optical Networks (PON)-based data centers design with different data centers networking…