Abstract— The Internet connectivity in the Autonomous System (AS) level reflects the commercial relationship between ASes. A connection between two ASes could be of type custome...
Autonomic networks are able to monitor and control themselves without direct human intervention. The smallest unit of an autonomic network is the autonomic element (AE). This work...
— The traffic exchanged between two overlay nodes in different autonomous systems (AS) is always subjected to a series of inter-domain policies. However, overlay routing often m...
Recently, more attention is paid to the researches and practices on how to use software architecture in software maintenance and evolution to reduce their complexity and cost. The ...
Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software tends to be cheap, reliable, and functionally powerful due to its large user base. It has thus become highly desirable to incorporate COTS ...