A BF-BASEDANALYTICALMODEL : DETAILS At its core, the analytical model of BF-based forwarding calculates the probability of forwarding decisions within a router, assuming Longest Prefix Matching (LPM) semantics. E.g. say a router has 3 interfaces 0, 1 and 2 each associated forwarding entries with sizes 1 or 2. Themodel calculates the probability of events such as ‘having a packet forwarded over ...

Effective management of computer networks is crucial to ensure the availability and performance of “always online” Internet services that we depend on. Towards this goal, programmatic tools can remove slow and expensive human involvement in management. Recently, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology has eased programmatic control of networks, but there has been little attention on progra...

Memory forwarding is an effective way to dynamically optimize the data layout. It provides a safe way to improve the performance of cache by actively creating better data locality. The existing memory forwarding mechanism needs additional hardware support to perform the address redirection, which greatly limits its real application. To put the memory forwarding technique into widely practice, w...

Confronted to the increasing dynamic of Internet routing system and its underlying topology, we propose a reliability and availability analysis method based on the characterization of the dynamic properties (in particular, the stability properties) of routing paths and their corresponding forwarding paths. The key driver underlying this method is that transient but frequent changes in the spati...

Principal aim of a search engine is to provide the sorted results according to user’s requirements. To achieve this aim, it employs ranking methods to rank the web documents based on their significance and relevance to user query. The novelty of this paper is to provide user feedback-based ranking algorithm using reinforcement learning. The proposed algorithm is called RRLUFF, in which the rank...

Search engines are still the most important gates for information search in internet. In this regard, providing the best response in the shortest time possible to the user's request is still desired. Normally, search engines are designed for adults and few policies have been employed considering teen users. Teen users are more biased in clicking the results list than are adult users. This leads...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are comprised of sensor nodes that forward data in the shape of packets inside a network. Proficient packet forwarding is a prerequisite in sensor networks since many tasks in the network, together with redundancy evaluation and localization, depend upon the methods of packet forwarding. With the motivation to develop a fault tolerant packet forwarding scheme a S...

Data center networks often have errors in the forwarding tables, causing packets to loop indefinitely, fall into black-holes or simply get dropped before they reach the correct destination. Finding forwarding errors is possible using static analysis, but none of the existing tools scale to a large data center network with thousands of switches and millions of forwarding entries. Worse still, in...