As cloud federation allows companies in need of computational resources to use computational resources hosted by different cloud providers, it reduces the cost of IT infrastructure by lowering capital and operational expenses. This is the result of economies of scale and the possibility for...

This paper examines the growth of a network based on the present conditions of the network, traffic demand, other demographic characteristics, project costs, and a budget constraint. The effects of expanding a link on its upstream and downstream neighbors, as well as on parallel links are also...

Shortcomings of transport network technologies were the main driver behind strong efforts of standardization organizations to develop control plane frameworks since 2001. Despite the findings of previous studies that the control plane framework deployment will lead to a 50 percent decrease in...