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11 papers
On Enhancing Delay SLAs in TCP Networks through Joint Routing and Transport Assistant Deployment
José Gómez-delaHiz, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Jaime Galán-Jiménez +1
The Transport Control Protocol has long been the primary transport protocol for applications requiring performance and reliability over the Internet. Unfortunately, due its retrans…
FlexNGIA 2.0: Redesigning the Internet with Agentic AI -- Protocols, Services, and Traffic Engineering Designed, Deployed, and Managed by AI
Mohamed Faten Zhani, Younes Korbi, Yamen Mkadem
The escalating demands of immersive communications, alongside advances in network softwarization and AI-driven cognition and generative reasoning, create a pivotal opportunity to r…
SFCaaS: Service Function Chains as a Service in NFV Environments
Tarik Moufakir, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Abdelouahed Gherbi +2
With the emergence of network softwarization trend, traditional networking services offered by Internet providers are expected to evolve by fully leveraging new recent technologies…
FlexNGIA: A Flexible Internet Architecture for the Next-Generation Tactile Internet
Mohamed Faten Zhani, Hesham ElBakoury
From virtual reality and telepresence, to augmented reality, holoportation, and remotely controlled robotics, these future network applications promise an unprecedented development…
Cloud Futurology
Blesson Varghese, Philipp Leitner, Suprio Ray +9
The Cloud has become integral to most Internet-based applications and user gadgets. This article provides a brief history of the Cloud and presents a researcher's view of the prosp…
On Improving Service Chains Survivability through Efficient Backup Provisioning
Saifeddine Aidi, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Yehia Elkhatib
With the growing adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), large-scale NFV infrastructure deployments are gaining momentum. Such infr…
Opportunistic Edge Computing: Concepts, Opportunities and Research Challenges
Richard Olaniyan, Olamilekan Fadahunsi, Muthucumaru Maheswaran +1
The growing need for low-latency access to computing resources has motivated the introduction of edge computing, where resources are strategically placed at the access networks. Un…
Research Challenges in Nextgen Service Orchestration
Luis M. Vaquero, Felix Cuadrado, Yehia Elkhatib +3
Fog/edge computing, function as a service, and programmable infrastructures, like software-defined networking or network function virtualisation, are becoming ubiquitously used in…
Price and Performance of Cloud-hosted Virtual Network Functions: Analysis and Future Challenges
Nadir Ghrada, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Yehia Elkhatib
The concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been introduced as a new paradigm in the recent few years. NFV offers a number of benefits including significantly increase…
On Using Micro-Clouds to Deliver the Fog
Yehia Elkhatib, Barry Porter, Heverson B. Ribeiro +3
Cloud computing has demonstrated itself to be a scalable and cost-efficient solution for many real-world applications. However, its modus operandi is not ideally suited to resource…
On Optimizing Replica Migration in Distributed Cloud Storage Systems
Amina Mseddi, Mohammad Ali Salahuddin, Mohamed Faten Zhani +2
With the wide adoption of large-scale Internet services and big data, the cloud has become the ideal environment to satisfy the ever-growing storage demand, thanks to its seemingly…