Network Function Virtualization (NFV) refers to the use of commodity hardware resources as the basic platform to perform specialized network functions as opposed to specialized hardware devices. Currently, NFV is mainly implemented based on general purpose processors, or general purpose network processors. In this paper we propose the use of FPGAs as an ideal platform for NFV that can be used t...

Electric power is widely used as the main energy source of ship integrated system (SIPS), which contains network and electric network. SlPS reconfiguration a non-linear large-scale problem. The solution influences safety stable operation system. According to operational characteristics SIPS, simplified model mathematical for are established. Based on these models, multi-agent ant colony optimiz...

Stream processing is a well-suited model for parallel programming, as it allows the programmer to design parallel algorithms intuitively by arranging computational tasks into a data-flow graph and consecutively constructing a streaming network from it. However, a network that was designed with a specific workload in mind will not work optimally if anticipated parameters, as for example data rat...

Electrical distribution network reconfiguration is a complex combinatorial optimization process aimed at finding a radial operating structure that minimizes the system power loss or/and maximizes the system reliability while satisfying operating constraints. In this paper, a distribution network reconfiguration method is presented for both the indices of power loss reduction and reliability imp...

We describe Lira, a lightweight infrastructure for managing dynamic reconfiguration that applies and extends the concepts of network management to component-based, distributed software systems. Lira is designed to perform both component-level reconfigurations and scalable applicationlevel reconfigurations, the former through agents associated with individual components and the latter through a ...

This paper presents a simulator for modeling dynamic reconfiguration of component-based interconnection networks. It is able to model and simulate all kinds of interconnection networks that are composed of switches, buffers, sources, and destinations. Steady-state simulation can be applied as well as terminating simulation to observe any transient behavior of the network. Due to the involved st...

In distribution systems, network reconfiguration and capacitor placement are commonly used to diminish power losses and keep voltage profiles within acceptable limits. In this paper, the Hybrid Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (HSFLA) has been used to optimize the balanced and unbalanced radial distribution systems using a network reconfiguration and capacitor placement. High accuracy and fast c...

The operational environments of sensor networks will alter over time, often due to hazardous conditions or fluctuating resource availability; however this important characteristic of sensor networks has yet to be fully addressed by current middleware solutions. In this article, we present a reflective middleware solution for co-ordinated dynamic reconfiguration of middleware behaviour across no...

An energy-aware virtual topology rating system is proposed in this work, which can be utilized as a tool during the virtual topology reconfiguration procedure in an optical backbone network in order to reduce its energy consumption. It is well known that maintaining a static virtual topology in Internet Protocol (IP)-over-Wavelength DivisionMultiplexing (WDM) networks is not energy-efficient. T...

In recent years, the vast evolution in telecommunication systems is remarkable, as regards the fast development and incorporation of new technologies in the heterogeneous networking environment. One major issue concerns the complexity management in user connectivity, in relation with two fundamental alternative solutions: the development of interworking functions for handovers between heterogen...