Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

Praise for the Third Edition: "This is one of the best books available. Its excellent organizational structure allows quick reference to specific models and its clear presentation . . . solidifies the understanding of the concepts being presented."IIE Transactions on Operations EngineeringThoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the latest developments in the field, Fundamentals of Queueing Theory, Fourth Edition continues to present the basic statistical principles that are necessary to analyze the probabilistic nature of queues. Rather than presenting a narrow focus on the subject, this update illustrates the wide-reaching, fundamental concepts in queueing theory and its applications to diverse areas such as computer science, engineering, business, and operations research.This update takes a numerical approach to understanding and making probable estimations relating to queues, with a comprehensive outline of simple and more advanced queueing models. Newly featured topics of the Fourth Edition include:Retrial queuesApproximations for queueing networksNumerical inversion of transformsDetermining the appropriate number of servers to balance quality and cost of serviceEach chapter provides a self-contained presentation of key concepts and formulae, allowing readers to work with each section independently, while a summary table at the end of the book outlines the types of queues that have been discussed and their results. In addition, two new appendices have been added, discussing transforms and generating functions as well as the fundamentals of differential and difference equations. New examples are now included along with problems that incorporate QtsPlus software, which is freely available via the book's related Web site.With its accessible style and wealth of real-world examples, Fundamentals of Queueing Theory, Fourth Edition is an ideal book for courses on queueing theory at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners who analyze congestion in the fields of telecommunications, transportation, aviation, and management science.

Fundamentals of Queueing Theory

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A Break in the Clouds: Towards a Cloud Definition

Network virtualization is recognized as an enabling technology for the future Internet. It aims to overcome the resistance of the current Internet to architectural change. Application of this technology relies on algorithms that can instantiate virtualized networks on a substrate infrastructure, optimizing the layout for service-relevant metrics. This class of algorithms is commonly known as "Virtual Network Embedding (VNE)" algorithms. This paper presents a survey of current research in the VNE area. Based upon a novel classification scheme for VNE algorithms a taxonomy of current approaches to the VNE problem is provided and opportunities for further research are discussed.

Virtual Network Embedding: A Survey

Network anomaly detection is an important and dynamic research area. Many network intrusion detection methods and systems (NIDS) have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we provide a structured and comprehensive overview of various facets of network anomaly detection so that a researcher can become quickly familiar with every aspect of network anomaly detection. We present attacks normally encountered by network intrusion detection systems. We categorize existing network anomaly detection methods and systems based on the underlying computational techniques used. Within this framework, we briefly describe and compare a large number of network anomaly detection methods and systems. In addition, we also discuss tools that can be used by network defenders and datasets that researchers in network anomaly detection can use. We also highlight research directions in network anomaly detection.

Network Anomaly Detection: Methods, Systems and Tools

Since its standardization, the HTTP has been widely used for transmission of hypertext and hypermedia files, such as audio and video in an interactive way. Recently, the protocol was updated and received several modifications, such as server push, focused mainly on improvements in the network usage. This fact introduces new challenges to web developers that raise questions, such as "which resources should a server push?" and "when should a server push resources?". Due that, it is crucial to analyze when or which scenarios these new features can be really useful. Therefore, this work presents a performance analysis of server push feature on HTTP/2 connections. According to results, we can observe that, despite the server push be presented as an improvement, regarding to the web page load time, its improper use may cause degradation of the QoE.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2940116.2940127

Should I Wait or Should I Push? A Performance Analysis of Push Feature in HTTP/2 Connections

The Network Access Control (NAC) management is a critical task, especially in current networks that are composed of many heterogeneous things (Internet of Things) connected to share data, resources and Internet access. The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) simplifies the network design and operation, and offers new opportunities (programmability, flexibility, dy-namicity, and standardization) to manage the network. Despite this, the access control management remains a challenge, once managing security policies involves dealing with a large set of access control rules, detecting conflicting policies, defining priorities, delegating rights, and reacting against network state changes and events. This work presents the HACFlow, a novel, autonomic, and policy-based framework for access control management in OpenFlow networks. HACFlow aims to simplify and automate the network management allowing network operators to govern rights of network entities by defining dynamic, fine-grained, and high-level access control policies. We analyzed the performance of HACFlow and compared it against related approaches.

An autonomic and policy-based authorization framework for OpenFlow networks

The emergence of Bluetooth as a default radio interface allows handheld electronic devices to be instantly interconnected into ad hoc networks. These short range ad-hoc wireless networks, called piconets, operate in the unlicensed 2.45 GHz ISM (Industrial-Scientific-Medical) band where up to eight devices may be used to configure single or overlapping piconets. This creates interference on the device from other devices operating in the same frequency band including microwaves and devices enabling various wireless LAN standards. This paper uses a signal capture model to study piconet MAC performance. Furthermore, simulations are used to validate the throughput obtained from this model. These results reveal important performance implications of the effect of inter-piconet interference on throughput.

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Modeling and evaluation of Bluetooth MAC protocol

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11042-021-11643-z.pdf

Modeling and assessing an intelligent system for safety in human-robot collaboration using deep and machine learning techniques

Self-composing networks dynamically emerge to offer added-value services. A simple dynamic configuration should allow the birth of this new brand of networks - networks with a soul. They are closer to end users, turning them into easier to set up. We examine two emerging networking technologies that take network dynamic configuration a step further than what we are used to. These are universal plug and play (UPnP) networks and ambient networks (ANs). Both technologies permit proximity-triggered seamless networking and are the focus of separate working groups. After introducing UPnP, we look in more detail at the design and management aspects of ambient networks. Though not all networks may be designed to be self-composing, we believe the path is set for this course. We show that we have the technology; the way we use it needs to evolve

Djamel Sadok

Papers

Should I Wait or Should I Push? A Performance Analysis of Push Feature in HTTP/2 Connections

An autonomic and policy-based authorization framework for OpenFlow networks

Modeling and evaluation of Bluetooth MAC protocol

Modeling and assessing an intelligent system for safety in human-robot collaboration using deep and machine learning techniques

Trends in network and device composition