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In this work we report experimental tests on the performance of FTTX accesses using the mPlane measurement plane, including lab and field environments and above all we point out the role of such measurement plane in Software Defined Network architectures. For such an aim we show an experimental procedure based on a central unit (orchestrator) that automatically manages GbE links in a regional network...
Most applications running on supercomputers achieve only a fraction of a system's peak performance. It has been demonstrated that the co-scheduling of applications can improve the overall system utilization. However, following this approach, applications need to fulfill certain criteria such that the mutual slowdown is kept at a minimum. In this paper, we present an HPC scheduler that applies co-scheduling...
The paper presents a method of monitoring the basic parameters of cognitive mobile ad hoc network (MANET) with opportunistic access to the spectrum. The collected parameters are based on metrics from different communications layers, combined into single utility function, being a global indicator of the network health. The proposed method was tested and validated using a real time cognitive radio network...
Increasingly, the application providers are using a separate fault management system that offers out-of-the-box monitoring and alarms support for application instances. A fault management system is usually distributed in nature and consists of a set of management components that does both fault detection and can trigger actions, for example, automatic restart of monitored components. Such a distributed...
In this paper, we elaborate an SDN orchestration solution aiming at the dynamic adaptation of service chain paths thereby addressing high-availability requirements of 5G applications. We present an SDN orchestrator that periodically monitors the availability of the network and, if necessary, promptly adapts service chain paths to recover from congestion events and to preserve network QoS performance...
Satellite can provide remote sensing data for disaster monitoring, and various sensors are generating huge volumes of remote sensing data for disaster management. It is urgent to store and process massive data acquired by satellite as fast as possible. A flexible and rapid service platform can realize integrated services from data acquisition, data production and product visualization. This article...
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), also known as Blue-tooth Smart, is part of the Bluetooth 4.0 Core specifications, introduced in June 2010 by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). BLE is designed as a radio standard that minimizes power consumption and it is particularly suited for low cost, low bandwidth, low power, and low complexity applications. These aspects of the standard represent the reasons...
The promise of SDN/NFV to offer enhanced functionalities to the service provider networks is now tangible as both technologies have started being steadily investigated and experimentally demonstrated. However, a number of research challenges have not been fully addressed yet. More specifically, a limited interest has been devoted on how to assure reliability and QoS performance while data traverse...
This paper focuses on the wireless monitoring sensor networks (WMSNs), where provide relay connectivity for the low capacity and power devices to monitor or sense the events in a monitoring area. In this paper, we propose the relay OFDMA resource allocation methods of coloring resource allocation, static resource allocation and dynamic resource allocation to improve the finite resource of time and...
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are specialized computing systems for the control and monitoring of distributed industrial devices. Aiming for a highly connected industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem, PLCopen OPC Unified Architecture (UA) specification has been released. This paper presents the implementation and evaluation of a PLCopen OPC-UA software component for industrial control...
Cloud platforms and services usually provide an APIlayer as decoupled, language agnostic interface for both front-endclient integration and back-end data and/or function access. Theavailability and performance of the APIs have significant impact onthe quality of end user or client experiences due to its nature ofinteraction endpoints. However, the extreme dynamics, complexityand scale of the current...
Massive parallel business workflows running in the cloud are prone to temporal violations (namely intermediate runtime delays) due to various reasons such as service performance fluctuation and resource conflicts. To deliver satisfactory on-time completion, cloud workflow temporal verification is employed to accurately detect time delays of workflow activities and timely handle temporal violations...
A lack of energy proportionality, low resource utilization, and interference in virtualized infrastructure make the cloud a challenging target environment for improving energy efficiency. In this paper we present OptiBook, a system that improves energy proportionality and/or resource utilization to optimize performance and energy efficiency. OptiBook shares servers between latency-sensitive services...
The various flows in production datacenters usually can be classified into two types: bandwidth-hungry and delay-sensitive. To improve their performance, datacenter networks require effective load balancing and flow control protocols, respectively. However, as the two techniques are typically employed separately in current datacenters, they are unable to optimize the network in a coordinated way....
The lower layer characteristics of 60 GHz wireless networks impact the entire protocol stack. This includes effects such as sudden link failure due to blockage, high packet loss due to deafness, or suboptimal transmit rates due to antenna misalignment. To understand the resulting behaviors at the upper layers, it is key to have access to lower layer information. At the time of writing, 60 GHz experimentation...
Crowd sensing pertains to the monitoring of large-scale phenomena that cannot be easily measured by a single individual. For example, intelligent transportation systems may require traffic congestion monitoring and air pollution level monitoring. These phenomena can be measured accurately only when many individuals provide speed and air quality information from their daily commutes, which are then...
Workflows are a widely used abstraction for describing large scientific applications and running them on distributed systems. However, most workflow systems have been silent on the question of what execution environment each task in the workflow is expected to run in. Consequently, a workflow may run successfully in the environment it was created, but fail on other platforms due to the differences...
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) plays a vital role in smart computing applications. Due to the limited communication range of individual RFID readers, large RFID systems deployed in real applications usually contain multiple readers. Existing reader scheduling algorithms either disallow adjacent readers to simultaneously work in order to avoid collisions among them, or simply activate all the...
Agricultural productivity has long been a key metric for measuring farming efficiency and it has been proven that agricultural productivity can be increased through smart farming. Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has also been incorporated into smart farming in order to provide additional perspectives, i.e., imagery analysis and agricultural surveillance. These UAVs not only perform their specific...
The NoC Architecture plays crucial role while designing communication systems for System on Chip (SoC). The NoC architecture is improved over conventional bus, shared bus design and cross bar interconnection architecture for on chip networks. In order to improve the Quality of Service, Congestion, Throughput and latency in NoC, Hexagonal node based architecture is proposed in our previous paper[14]...
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