Since wireless network virtualization enables abstraction and sharing of infrastructure and radio spectrum resources, the overall expenses of wireless network deployment and operation can be reduced significantly. Moreover, wireless network virtualization can provide easier migration to newer products or technologies by isolating part of the network. Despite the potential vision of wireless network virtualization, several significant research challenges remain to be addressed before widespread deployment of wireless network virtualization, including isolation, control signaling, resource discovery and allocation, mobility management, network management and operation, and security as well as non-technical issues such as governance regulations, etc. In this paper, we provide a brief survey on some of the works that have already been done to achieve wireless network virtualization, and discuss some research issues and challenges. We identify several important aspects of wireless network virtualization: overview, motivations, framework, performance metrics, enabling technologies, and challenges. Finally, we explore some broader perspectives in realizing wireless network virtualization.

Wireless Network Virtualization: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges

To support bursty traffic on the Internet (and especially WWW) efficiently, optical burst switching (OBS) is proposed as a way to streamline both protocols and hardware in building the future gener...

Optical burst switching (OBS) - a new paradigm for an optical Internet

Software-defined network (SDN) has become one of the most important architectures for the management of largescale complex networks, which may require repolicing or reconfigurations from time to time. SDN achieves easy repolicing by decoupling the control plane from data plane. Thus, the network routers/switches just simply forward packets by following the flow table rules set by the control plane. Currently, OpenFlow is the most popular SDN protocol/standard and has a set of design specifications. Although SDN/OpenFlow is a relatively new area, it has attracted much attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, we will conduct a comprehensive survey of the important topics in SDN/OpenFlow implementation, including the basic concept, applications, language abstraction, controller, virtualization, quality of service, security, and its integration with wireless and optical networks. We will compare the pros and cons of different schemes and discuss the future research trends in this exciting area. This survey can help both industry and academia R&D people to understand the latest progress of SDN/OpenFlow designs.

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A Survey on Software-Defined Network and OpenFlow: From Concept to Implementation

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the key components of the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm. They are now ubiquitous and used in a plurality of application domains. WSNs are still domain specific and usually deployed to support a specific application. However, as WSNs' nodes are becoming more and more powerful, it is getting more and more pertinent to research how multiple applications could share a very same WSN infrastructure. Virtualization is a technology that can potentially enable this sharing. This paper is a survey on WSN virtualization. It provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art and an in-depth discussion of the research issues. We introduce the basics of WSN virtualization and motivate its pertinence with carefully selected scenarios. Existing works are presented in detail and critically evaluated using a set of requirements derived from the scenarios. The pertinent research projects are also reviewed. Several research issues are also discussed with hints on how they could be tackled.

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Wireless Sensor Network Virtualization: A Survey

Wireless network virtualization and information-centric networking (ICN) are two promising techniques in software-defined 5G mobile wireless networks. Traditionally, these two technologies have been addressed separately. In this paper we show that integrating wireless network virtualization with ICN techniques can significantly improve the end-to-end network performance. In particular, we propose an information- centric wireless network virtualization architecture for integrating wireless network virtualization with ICN. We develop the key components of this architecture: radio spectrum resource, wireless network infrastructure, virtual resources (including content-level slicing, network-level slicing, and flow-level slicing), and informationcentric wireless virtualization controller. Then we formulate the virtual resource allocation and in-network caching strategy as an optimization problem, considering the gain of not only virtualization but also in-network caching in our proposed information-centric wireless network virtualization architecture. The obtained simulation results show that our proposed information-centric wireless network virtualization architecture and the related schemes significantly outperform the other existing schemes.

Information-centric network function virtualization over 5g mobile wireless networks

SUMMARY The range of applications of wireless sensor networks is so wide that it tends to invade our every day life. In the future, a sensor network will survey our health, our home, the roads we follow, the office or the industry we work in or even the aircrafts we use, in an attempt to enhance our safety. However, the wireless sensor networks themselves are prone to security attacks. The list of security attacks, although already very long, continues to augment impeding the expansion of these networks. The trust management schemes consist of a powerful tool for the detection of unexpected node behaviours (either faulty or malicious). Once misbehaving nodes are detected, their neighbours can use this information to avoid cooperating with them, either for data forwarding, data aggregation or any other cooperative function. A variety of trust models which follow different directions regarding the distribution of measurement functionality, the monitored behaviours and the way measurements are used to calculate/define the node’s trustworthiness has been presented in the literature. In this paper, we survey trust models in an attempt to explore the interplay among the implementation requirements, the resource consumption and the achieved security. Our goal is to draw guidelines for the design of deployable trust model designs with respect to the available node and network capabilities and application peculiarities. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Trust management in wireless sensor networks

SUMMARY The steadily rising demand for multimedia and data services, the falling cost and omnipresence of Ethernet and the maturity of passive optical networks (PON) technology, promise to radically change the landscape in the local loop. The heart of a gigabit PON system (recently standardized by FSAN/ITU) is the medium access controller (MAC), which arbitrates access to the upstream link among users with fluctuating traffic demands and effects the multiplexing and concentration policy. At the same time, it has to safeguard the service quality and enforce the parameters agreed in the service level agreements (SLAs) between the users and the service provider. In this paper, a MAC protocol designed to serve any mix of services according to their quality of service (QoS) needs, employing four priority levels along with a high number of logically separate data queues is presented. The architecture and implementation in hardware of a MAC algorithm capable of allocating bandwidth down to a resolution of a byte with QoS differentiation is the focus of this paper. It employs the bandwidth arbitration tools of the FSAN/ITU G.984.3 standard and maps SLA parameters to GPON service parameters to create an efficient, fair and flexible residential access system. Copyright # 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Efficient medium arbitration of FSAN-compliant GPONs

The majority of research and development efforts in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) focus on WSN systems that are dedicated for a specific application. However, this trend is currently being replaced by resource-rich WSN deployments that are expected to provide capabilities in excess of any application's requirements. In this regard, the concept of virtual sensor networking is an emerging approach that enables the decoupling of the physical sensor deployment from the applications running on top of it, allowing in this way the dynamic collaboration of a subset of sensor nodes and helping the proliferation of new services and applications beyond the scope of the original deployment. In this context, the article presents the architecture of a system for the realization of Virtual Sensor Networks (VSNs). The aim of the proposed architecture is to enable the realization of scalable, flexible, adaptive, energy-efficient, and trust-aware VSN platforms, focusing on the reduction of deployment complexity and management cost, and on advanced interoperability mechanisms. The efforts have been put towards specifying a service provisioning architecture and mechanisms for advanced sensor and middleware design.

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A framework for service provisioning in virtual sensor networks

The Gigabit per second PON, now under standardization by the FSAN group in ITU-T, constitutes the most promising approach for the photon-isation of the local loop, an elusive target of telecom operators for more than a decade. The traffic multiplexing / concentration on which the system efficiency (and hence low cost) is based, relies upon the dynamic MAC protocol to allocate bandwidth according to momentary needs, following traffic fluctuations. To serve each traffic class according to its needs, four priority levels are employed along with a high number of logically separate queues. This paper presents and evaluates the FSAN access control algorithms and discusses the choice of suitable traffic service parameters that optimize system performance.

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Prioritized Multiplexing of Traffic Accessing an FSAN-Compliant GPON

A crucial issue in slotted OBS systems is the slot-generating traffic aggregation strategy as it impacts heavily on efficiency. The longer the assembly time, the better the fill level, at the penalty of delay, which may affect sensitive services. To fulfil the QoS requirements of demanding traffic and achieve high efficiency whenever possible, two traffic priorities are employed and two different bounds on the aggregation delay are enforced. A slot aggregation strategy that creates a composite slot, improving utilisation gain while respecting service guarantees, is presented and evaluated in this paper. Under this approach a slot is launched whenever high-priority traffic cannot wait any longer but any low-priority traffic is accommodated as well, producing an efficiency gain in the sense that more traffic can be sent using the same number of slots. Copyright © 2006 AEIT.

Helen-Catherine Leligou

Papers

Trust management in wireless sensor networks

Efficient medium arbitration of FSAN-compliant GPONs

A framework for service provisioning in virtual sensor networks

Prioritized Multiplexing of Traffic Accessing an FSAN-Compliant GPON

Efficient burst aggregation for QoS‐aware slotted OBS systems