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Software-Defined Networks (SDN) is an emerging area that promises to change the way we design, build, and operate network architecture. It tends to shift from traditional network architecture of proprietary based to open and programmable network architecture. However, this new innovative and improved technology also brings another security burden into the network architecture, with existing and emerging...
This paper describes the software architecture and the implementation of a fully operational testbed that demonstrates the benefits of flexible, dynamic resource allocation with virtualized LTE-A nodes. The testbed embodies and specializes the general software architecture devised within the Flex5Gware EU project, and focuses on two intelligent programs: the first one is a Global Scheduler, that coordinates...
Introduction of automated driving increases complexity of automotive systems. As a result, architecture design becomes a major concern for ensuring non-functional requirements such as safety, and modifiability. In the ISO 26262 standard, architecture patterns are recommended for system development. However, the existing architecture patterns may not be able to answer requirements of automated driving...
Network traffic monitoring is an important factor to maintain stability and effective network management in software-defined networking (SDN). However, monitoring by current support of SDN architecture, i.e., OpenFlow, is neither flexible nor scalable due to the dependence to OpenFlow tables, which is designed mainly for forwarding. The scalability issue is even more serious when monitoring in network-wide...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are essential elements of the Internet of Things ecosystem, as such, they encounter numerous IoT challenging architectural, management and application issues. These include inflexible control, manual configuration and management of sensor nodes, difficulty in an orchestration of resources, and virtualizing sensor network resources for on-demand applications and services...
High-performance computing (HPC) is recognized as one of the pillars for further progress in science, industry, medicine, and education. Current HPC systems are being developed to overcome emerging architectural challenges in order to reach Exascale level of performance, projected for the year 2020. The much larger embedded and mobile market allows for rapid development of intellectual property (IP)...
While autonomy developers have been able to take advantage of external control interfaces on intelligent vehicles for years, they have typically had to choose between control architectures and interfaces that only allowed them to use the existing behaviors of the vehicle (task-level control) or those that allowed them to set desired control values (setpoint control) but then required them to re-invent...
Software defined network separates data and control planes that facilitate network management functions, especially enabling programmable network control functions. Event monitoring is a fault management function involved in collecting and filtering event notification messages from network devices. This study presents an approach of distributed event monitoring for software defined network. Monitoring...
The pervasive use of embedded computing systems in modern societies altogether with the industry trend towards consolidating workloads, openness and interconnectedness, have raised security, safety, and real-time concerns. Virtualization has been used as an enabler for safety and security, but research works have proven that it must be extended and improved with hardware-based security foundations...
The evolution of information technology and the explosive growth in Internet data have rendered traditional ways of providing information services and their infrastructure no longer appropriates. Data storage, computing and Internet services are moving toward virtualization and cloud computing. However, the performance of this network architecture needs to be examined to improve network bandwidth...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization facilitate, with their advanced programmability features, the design of automated dynamic service creation platforms. Applying DevOps principles to service design can further reduce service creation times and support continuous operation. Monitoring, troubleshooting, and other DevOps tools can have different roles within virtualised...
In this paper we investigate synergies between Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) architectures and Software-Defined Networks (SDN). We identify value adding capabilities such technologies may offer to telecom providers regarding agile management and deployment of network functions across their infrastructures. Specifically, we propose a modular NFV architecture that permits policy-based management...
Prototype deployments of Software Defined Exchanges (SDX) have recently come into existence as a platform for Future Internet architecture to eliminate the need for core routing technology used in today's Internet. In this paper, we motivate the need for an adequate measurement architecture for such SDXes to be able to evaluate their performance and inform further development. We present the major...
Virtualization has been used as the de facto technology to allow multiple operating systems (virtual machines) to run on top of the same hardware platform. In the embedded systems domain, virtualization research has focused on the coexistence of real-time requirements with non-real-time characteristics. However, existent standard software-based virtualization solutions have been shown to negatively...
Increasing the energy efficiency of today's high-performance computing systems requires new approaches that go beyond homogeneous architectures, which primarily target maximum performance per node. Heterogeneous architectures that can be tailored towards the specific needs of a particular application are a promising alternative to state-of-the-art server systems. In this paper, we present a novel...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow represent the most commonly deployed approaches of the so called Programmable Networks. SDN is an emerging network architecture, which performs the subdivision of control plane and data plane and allows greater speed, greater scalability, and greater ductility in terms of routing and forwarding. OpenFlow, instead, is an SDN component that characterizes...
Monitoring operations in today's mobile networks is becoming a more and more challenging task due to the higher bandwidth and technological complexity brought by LTE. The paper summarizes some relevant problems that arose in the tests of LTE equipment carried out at Telecom Italia Lab (TILAB, the R&D center of Telecom Italia), and presents an ongoing project that aims at realizing a flexible hardware/software...
In this paper we demonstrate an energy-reduction strategy that relies on the stochastic long-tail nature of the STT-RAM write operation. To move away from the traditional worst-case approach, the per-cell write process is continuously monitored and is terminated as soon as each cell's state matches the written state. Since the average write duration is far shorter than the worst-case duration, the...
This paper presents a novel pulse switching protocol framework for ultra light-weight wireless network applications. The key idea is to abstract a single Ultra Wide Band (UWB) pulse as the information switching granularity. Pulse switching is shown to be sufficient for on-off style event monitoring applications for which a monitored parameter can be modeled using a binary variable. Monitoring such...
Cooperating heterogeneous wireless elements provide advanced problem solving capabilities and improved services. At the same time, low energy solutions create attractive business case offering significant benefits in terms of products dependability, and operation costs. CONSERN project addresses those challenges through the Self-growing paradigm, combining autonomic and collaborative capacities towards...
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