5,486 research outputs found
Resilience of Traffic Networks with Partially Controlled Routing
This paper investigates the use of Infrastructure-To-Vehicle (I2V)
communication to generate routing suggestions for drivers in transportation
systems, with the goal of optimizing a measure of overall network congestion.
We define link-wise levels of trust to tolerate the non-cooperative behavior of
part of the driver population, and we propose a real-time optimization
mechanism that adapts to the instantaneous network conditions and to sudden
changes in the levels of trust. Our framework allows us to quantify the
improvement in travel time in relation to the degree at which drivers follow
the routing suggestions. We then study the resilience of the system, measured
as the smallest change in routing choices that results in roads reaching their
maximum capacity. Interestingly, our findings suggest that fluctuations in the
extent to which drivers follow the provided routing suggestions can cause
failures of certain links. These results imply that the benefits of using
Infrastructure-To-Vehicle communication come at the cost of new fragilities,
that should be appropriately addressed in order to guarantee the reliable
operation of the infrastructure.Comment: Accepted for presentation at the IEEE 2019 American Control
Conferenc
Software defined networking: meeting carrier grade requirements
Software Defined Networking is a networking paradigm which allows network operators to manage networking elements using software running on an external server. This is accomplished by a split in the architecture between the forwarding element and the control element. Two technologies which allow this split for packet networks are ForCES and Openflow. We present energy efficiency and resilience aspects of carrier grade networks which can be met by Openflow. We implement flow restoration and run extensive experiments in an emulated carrier grade network. We show that Openflow can restore traffic quite fast, but its dependency on a centralized controller means that it will be hard to achieve 50 ms restoration in large networks serving many flows. In order to achieve 50 ms recovery, protection will be required in carrier grade networks
Improved routing strategies for Internet traffic delivery
We analyze different strategies aimed at optimizing routing policies in the
Internet. We first show that for a simple deterministic algorithm the local
properties of the network deeply influence the time needed for packet delivery
between two arbitrarily chosen nodes. We next rely on a real Internet map at
the autonomous system level and introduce a score function that allows us to
examine different routing protocols and their efficiency in traffic handling
and packet delivery. Our results suggest that actual mechanisms are not the
most efficient and that they can be integrated in a more general, though not
too complex, scheme.Comment: Final versio
Software Defined Networks based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey
The current power grid is no longer a feasible solution due to
ever-increasing user demand of electricity, old infrastructure, and reliability
issues and thus require transformation to a better grid a.k.a., smart grid
(SG). The key features that distinguish SG from the conventional electrical
power grid are its capability to perform two-way communication, demand side
management, and real time pricing. Despite all these advantages that SG will
bring, there are certain issues which are specific to SG communication system.
For instance, network management of current SG systems is complex, time
consuming, and done manually. Moreover, SG communication (SGC) system is built
on different vendor specific devices and protocols. Therefore, the current SG
systems are not protocol independent, thus leading to interoperability issue.
Software defined network (SDN) has been proposed to monitor and manage the
communication networks globally. This article serves as a comprehensive survey
on SDN-based SGC. In this article, we first discuss taxonomy of advantages of
SDNbased SGC.We then discuss SDN-based SGC architectures, along with case
studies. Our article provides an in-depth discussion on routing schemes for
SDN-based SGC. We also provide detailed survey of security and privacy schemes
applied to SDN-based SGC. We furthermore present challenges, open issues, and
future research directions related to SDN-based SGC.Comment: Accepte
IDEALIST control and service management solutions for dynamic and adaptive flexi-grid DWDM networks
Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSON) were designed with the premise that all channels in a network have the same spectrum needs, based on the ITU-T DWDM grid. However, this rigid grid-based approach is not adapted to the spectrum requirements of the signals that are best candidates for long-reach transmission and high-speed data rates of 400Gbps and beyond. An innovative approach is to evolve the fixed DWDM grid to a flexible grid, in which the optical spectrum is partitioned into fixed-sized spectrum slices. This allows facilitating the required amount of optical bandwidth and spectrum for an elastic optical connection to be dynamically and adaptively allocated by assigning the necessary number of slices of spectrum. The ICT IDEALIST project will provide the architectural design, protocol specification, implementation, evaluation and standardization of a control plane and a network and service management system. This architecture and tools are necessary to introduce dynamicity, elasticity and adaptation in flexi-grid DWDM networks. This paper provides an overview of the objectives, framework, functional requirements and use cases of the elastic control plane and the adaptive network and service management system targeted in the ICT IDEALIST project
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