Cloud Computing applications are inherently oriented to send and receive information between multiple virtual machines and geographically distributed users. ...

Cloud Computing networks include software components, servers, routers, network links, and data center facilities. Thus, they require a meticulous design tha...

The ubiquity of cloud applications requires the meticulous design of cloud networks with high quality of service, low costs, and low CO₂ emissions...

In this article, we provide an analytical framework to assess network level QoS measures for differentiated non-saturated traffic in infrastructure mode 802....

This paper analyzes the impact of feedback delay on the performance of multiuser selection diversity systems employing orthogonal space-time block coding (OS...

In this paper, for the purpose of service differentiation in opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) enabled networks, we take different priority queueing discip...

Current network planning and design methods use the average delay, packet loss and throughput as metrics to optimize the network cost and performance. New...

Given Cloud Computing geographical distribution on multiple regions, the location of data centers, servers and software components and the way information is...

This paper deals with the joint planning and energy management operation of Wireless Mesh Networks. We claim that energy management should be incorporated a...

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) benefit from several features, such as decision-making, spectrum-awareness and reconfigurability, which enable them to perfor...

In this paper we analyze the promising, but yet mostly unexplored, ability of opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) based on cognitive radios (CR) to provide a...

In this paper, we introduce a queueing approach with server interruptions to analyze the performance of a cognitive radio (CR) link subject to recurrent fail...

Cognitive radio-based Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks enjoy the interesting features of cognitive Radios (CR), such as learning and reconfigurability, wh...

Cognitive radios (CR) are an efficient approach to deploy a secondary network in the vacant portions of the spectrum licensed to primary networks. However, w...

Cognitive radios (CR) are an efficient approach to deploy a secondary network in the vacant portions of the spectrum licensed to primary networks. However, w...

To ensure widespread deployment and popularity, next generation wireless services will require a Quality of Service (QoS), and particularly a reliability, th...

Although the main objectives of dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radios are to solve the problem of spectrum scarcity and usage inefficiency, we show in...

This paper presents an analysis of a compiled database of power consumption and networking functionalities found in datasheets of routers and switches of so...

In this paper, we present the PolyMAX module which enhances ns-2 (network simulator 2), the most popular network simulator used in academia, to provide one o...

The topic of this paper is the evaluation of QoS parameters in live Pre-Wimax environments. The main contribution is the validation of an analytical delay-ji...