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20162025
most citedSurvey of Communication Protocols for Internet-of-Things and Related Challenges of Fog and Cloud Computing Integration

422 citations · 731 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.NI2025

Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer

Siu Kei Chung, Francisco Carpio, Andrei Navoichyk +8

The internet faces a sovereignty crisis due to power concentration and data growth among a few hyperscalers, leading to centralization and loss of user control. This consolidation…

cs.NI2025★ 3 cited

Optimum Network Slicing for Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) Services in Campus Networks

Iulisloi Zacarias, Francisco Carpio, André Costa Drummond +1

Within 3GPP, the campus network architecture has evolved as a deployment option for industries and can be provisioned using network slicing over already installed 5G public network…

cs.NI2023

Scaling Performance of Serverless Edge Networking

Marc Michalke, Francisco Carpio, Admela Jukan

When clustering devices at the edge, inter-node latency poses a significant challenge that directly impacts the application performance. In this paper, we experimentally examine th…

cs.NI2023

Towards Optimal Serverless Function Scaling in Edge Computing Network

Mounir Bensalem, Francisco Carpio, Admela Jukan

Serverless computing has emerged as a new execution model which gained a lot of attention in cloud computing thanks to the latest advances in containerization technologies. Recentl…

cs.NI2022★ 12 cited

BenchFaaS: Benchmarking Serverless Functions in an Edge Computing Network Testbed

Francisco Carpio, Marc Michalke, Admela Jukan

The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverl…

cs.NI2021

The Role of Intent-Based Networking in ICT Supply Chains

Mounir Bensalem, Jasenka Dizdarević, Francisco Carpio +1

The evolution towards Industry 4.0 is driving the need for innovative solutions in the area of network management, considering the complex, dynamic and heterogeneous nature of ICT…

cs.NI2021★ 8 cited

Engineering and Experimentally Benchmarking a Serverless Edge Computing System

Francisco Carpio, Marc Michalke, Admela Jukan

Thanks to the latest advances in containerization, the serverless edge computing model is becoming close to reality. Serverless at the edge is expected to enable low latency applic…

cs.NI2021★ 1 cited

Scaling Migrations and Replications of Virtual Network Functions based on Network Traffic Forecasting

Francisco Carpio, Wolfgang Bziuk, Admela Jukan

Migration and replication of virtual network functions (VNFs) are well-known mechanisms to face dynamic resource requests in Internet Service Provider (ISP) edge networks. They are…

cs.NI2020★ 1 cited

On Optimal Placement of Hybrid Service Function Chains (SFCs) of Virtual Machines and Containers in a Generic Edge-Cloud Continuum

Francisco Carpio, Wolfgang Bziuk, Admela Jukan

Traditionally, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been implemented to run on Virtual Machines (VMs) in form of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). More recently, the so-called…

cs.NI2020★ 13 cited

Engineering and Experimentally Benchmarking a Container-based Edge Computing System

Francisco Carpio, Marta Delgado, Admela Jukan

While edge computing is envisioned to superbly serve latency sensitive applications, the implementation-based studies benchmarking its performance are few and far between. To addre…

cs.NI2019★ 6 cited

Engineering a QoS Provider Mechanism for Edge Computing with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Francisco Carpio, Admela Jukan, Roman Sosa +1

With the development of new system solutions that integrate traditional cloud computing with the edge/fog computing paradigm, dynamic optimization of service execution has become a…

cs.NI2019★ 6 cited

Enhancing REST HTTP with Random Linear Network Coding in Dynamic Edge Computing Environments

Cao Vien Phung, Jasenka Dizdarevic, Francisco Carpio +1

The rising number of IoT devices is accelerating the research on new solutions that will be able to efficiently deal with unreliable connectivity in highly dynamic computing applic…

cs.NI2018★ 422 cited

Survey of Communication Protocols for Internet-of-Things and Related Challenges of Fog and Cloud Computing Integration

Jasenka Dizdarevic, Francisco Carpio, Admela Jukan +1

The fast increment in the number of IoT (Internet of Things) devices is accelerating the research on new solutions to make cloud services scalable. In this context, the novel conce…

cs.NI2017★ 28 cited

Improving Reliability of Service Function Chains with Combined VNF Migrations and Replications

Francisco Carpio, Admela Jukan

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is enabling flexibility, programmability and implementation of traditional network functions into generic hardware, in form of Vi…

cs.NI2017★ 38 cited

Balancing the Migration of Virtual Network Functions with Replications in Data Centers

Francisco Carpio, Admela Jukan, Rastin Pries

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is enabling flexibility, programmability and implementation of traditional network functions into generic hardware, in form of th…

cs.NI2017★ 24 cited

Replication of Virtual Network Functions: Optimizing Link Utilization and Resource Costs

Francisco Carpio, Wolgang Bziuk, Admela Jukan

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is enabling the softwarization of traditional network services, commonly deployed in dedicated hardware, into generic hardware in form of Virt…

cs.NI2016★ 124 cited

VNF Placement with Replication for Load Balancing in NFV Networks

Francisco Carpio, Samia Dhahri, Admela Jukan

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a new paradigm, enabling service innovation through virtualization of traditional network functions located flexibly in the network in form…

cs.NI2016★ 45 cited

DiffFlow: Differentiating Short and Long Flows for Load Balancing in Data Center Networks

Francisco Carpio, Anna Engelmann, Admela Jukan

In current Data Center Networks (DCNs), Equal- Cost MultiPath (ECMP) is used as the de-facto routing protocol. However, ECMP does not differentiate between short and long flows, th…