Network security is gravitating towards more centralized control. Strong centralization places a heavy burden on the administrator who has to manage complex security policies and ...
Enterprise network security is typically reactive, and it relies heavily on host security and middleboxes. This approach creates complicated interactions between protocols and sys...
Ankur Kumar Nayak, Alex Reimers, Nick Feamster, Ru...
We present Flow-based Management Language (FML), a declarative policy language for managing the configuration of enterprise networks. FML was designed to replace the many dispara...
Timothy L. Hinrichs, Natasha Gude, Martin Casado, ...
BGP routing policies are mainly used by network operators to enforce business relationships between Autonomous Systems (AS), and to prefer some routes over others. In this paper, ...
Laurent Vanbever, Bruno Quoitin, Olivier Bonaventu...
This paper presents BCube, a new network architecture specifically designed for shipping-container based, modular data centers. At the core of the BCube architecture is its serve...
Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lu, Dan Li, Haitao Wu, Xuan...
Energy expenses are becoming an increasingly important fraction of data center operating costs. At the same time, the energy expense per unit of computation can vary significantl...
Asfandyar Qureshi, Rick Weber, Hari Balakrishnan, ...
IPTV is increasingly being deployed and offered as a commercial service to residential broadband customers. Compared with traditional ISP networks, an IPTV distribution network (i...
Ajay Anil Mahimkar, Zihui Ge, Aman Shaikh, Jia Wan...
Carrier sense is often used to regulate concurrency in wireless medium access control (MAC) protocols, balancing interference protection and spatial reuse. Carrier sense is known ...
Networking over UHF white spaces is fundamentally different from conventional Wi-Fi along three axes: spatial variation, temporal variation, and fragmentation of the UHF spectrum....
Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Thomas Moscibroda,...
To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to...
Albert G. Greenberg, James R. Hamilton, Navendu Ja...