Over the last decade, the Internet has grown at a tremendous speed in both size and complexity. Nowadays, a large number of important services – for instance e-commerce, healthcare and many others – depend on the availability of the underlying network. Clearly, service interruptions due to network problems may have a severe impact. On the long way towards the Future Internet, the complexity wil...

Joining or leaving a platform ecosystem is a crucial strategic decision for a software producing organization. Multi-homing is strategy where a company participate more than one platform ecosystem. A decision to multi-home entails considerable impact for companies, as entering into a new ecosystem always requires investments in, e.g., developing, maintaining and marketing a platform specific ex...

Under multi-homing an Internet Service Provider (ISP) connects to the Internet via multiplicity of network providers. This allows the provider to receive proper quality of service when one of the networks fails. An ISP that uses multihoming is subject to extra charges due to the use of multiple networks. Such extra costs can be very drastic under fixed cost pricing and non-meaningful under per-...

As the pressure to drive down network costs increases without compromising the stringent availability requirements imposed by service Level Agreements (SLAs), the development of advanced techniques to optimize the interaction between network layers becomes a necessity. To this end multi-layer networks have been investigated, influencing network design and provisioning. The requirements of high ...

Smart Grid Communication network will be a network of networks and with the obvious evolution and acceleration, it is crucial for its success to rely on a solid transmission protocol among its peripherals due to its real time streaming. The SCTP protocol, which was initially designed for transporting signaling messages over IP networks, is now an established in many modern applications. The mai...

Several models have been proposed for visual homing in insects. These work well in small-scale environments but performance usually degrades significantly when the scale of the environment is increased. We address this problem by extending one such algorithm, the average landmark vector (ALV) model, by using a novel approach to waypoint selection during the construction of multi-leg routes for ...

With the increasing diversity of wireless access technologies, and the further integration of mobile communication and heterogeneous wireless networks, more and more mobile devices equipped with multiple network interfaces. The mobile devices, which have integrated multi-homing technology, can transmit data through multiple network interfaces to improve the quality of data transmission for user...

Today’s Internet availability is low, despite the efforts of organizations to improve failure resilience through multi-homing. In this paper, we analyze where and how much exposure to topology is needed to best improve availability without sacrificing scalability. Through this analysis, we find that exposing choice of the first and last AS hops between multi-homed AS pairs can almost always pro...

This paper proposes a framework calledVirtualMulti-Homing (VMH) to achieve loose source-based path selection and improve interdomain path diversity. VMH is based on the concept ofVirtual Peering and Multi-Homing Overlay to set up exible inter-domain relationships. By interacting with BGP whenever possible, VMH can achieve scalable inter-domain route discovery without introducing duplicate work....