{"title":"A modeling approach for dependability analysis of smart distribution grids","authors":"Tesfaye Amare, B. Helvik, P. Heegaard","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401634","url":null,"abstract":"The distribution grids are among the most critical infrastructures which integrates advanced control and communication technologies atop of power systems. This paper presents a comprehensive modeling framework suited to study the resiliency and dependability of the next generation distribution grid. It focuses on revealing insight in the complex interaction and dependencies between the ICT based control system and the power- grid. It looks into the role of automation and new technologies in future distribution grids. The objective is through a quantitative assessment to identify vulnerabilities and to study alternative design principles and architecture of the automated distribution grids. The modeling framework is general and modular based on a stochastic activity networks using the Mobius tool. For illustration, a case study is included at the end.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116966623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Kapassa, M. Touloupou, Argyro Mavrogiorgou, D. Kyriazis
{"title":"5G & SLAs: Automated proposition and management of agreements towards QoS enforcement","authors":"E. Kapassa, M. Touloupou, Argyro Mavrogiorgou, D. Kyriazis","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401587","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient Service Level Agreements (SLA) management and anticipation of Service Level Objectives (SLO) breaches become mandatory to guarantee the required service quality in software- defined and 5G networks. To create an operational Network Service, it is highly envisaged to associate it with their network-related parameters that reflect the corresponding quality levels. These are included in policies but while SLAs target usually business users, there is a challenge for mechanisms that bridge this abstraction gap. In this paper, a generic black box approach is used to map high-level requirements expressed by users in SLAs to low-level network parameters included in policies, enabling Quality of Service (QoS) enforcement by triggering the required policies and manage the infrastructure accordingly. In addition, a mechanism for determining the importance of different QoS parameters is presented, mainly used for “relevant” QoS metrics recommendation in the SLA templates.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116072395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A globally optimised multipath routing algorithm using SDN","authors":"Noel Farrugia, Victor Buttigieg, J. A. Briffa","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401633","url":null,"abstract":"The Software Defined Network (SDN) model promises the delivery of a network architecture capable of handling the demands of current and future applications more efficiently than the current distributed network architecture. SDN gains this ability by moving to a logically centralised control plane. The centralised network controller has up to date information on both the network topology and the flows using the network. In this work we use the information already available at the network controller to create a globally optimised Per-Packet multipath routing algorithm. An optimal Per-Packet multipath routing algorithm may split a flow unequally between different paths. Current SDN capable hardware is not able to split flows in an unequal fashion while still remaining scalable. To overcome this limitation, we also propose a stochastic flow splitting mechanism capable of dividing a flow into any number of fractional components while offering better scalability than current methods. To analyse the performance of our proposed system, the GEANT network topology is used. Under heavy traffic load, our system shows a 90% improvement in a flow's received throughput when compared to OSPF and ECMP.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124032342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Copeland, S. Ahvar, N. Crespi, R. Durand, Michael Copeland, Jean-Michel Duquerrois, F. Paganelli, F. Battisti, A. Neri
{"title":"Technology assessment for mission-critical services on automotive virtual edge communicator (AVEC)","authors":"Rebecca Copeland, S. Ahvar, N. Crespi, R. Durand, Michael Copeland, Jean-Michel Duquerrois, F. Paganelli, F. Battisti, A. Neri","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401630","url":null,"abstract":"Mission critical services are beginning to migrate to broadband from the trusted-but-limited existing systems. They need assured availability and confidentiality for communication in areas affected by a disaster, flash crowding or any catastrophic network failure. This paper describes a vision for an automotive virtual edge Communication scheme that helps healing stricken networks, utilizing any available resources for hosting network functions on vehicles. Emergency and essential service organizations who rush to the area would ‘bring their own network’, i.e. computing capacity and connectivity tools, aboard their service vehicles. These vehicles form a dynamic community that shares resources, information and services, using the combined processing capacity via virtualized core functions. To realize such a scheme, innovative features are required, such as cooperative hosting, opportunistic vehicular resource virtualization, context-based edge SDN traffic prioritization, and ad-hoc vehicular community management, including multi-entity authentication.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122128642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tomohiro Ishikawa, Y. Mori, H. Hasegawa, Ken-ichi Sato
{"title":"Spectral utilization efficient coarse granular routing optical networks with resiliency against multiple failures","authors":"Tomohiro Ishikawa, Y. Mori, H. Hasegawa, Ken-ichi Sato","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401584","url":null,"abstract":"A spectral-utilization-efficient and multiple-failure-resilient coarse granular routing optical network architecture is proposed. This work is based on our previously proposal of shared path protected networks with dense channel accommodation to coarse granular (grouped routing) optical pipes. Its advances, which include enhanced path and pipe restoration, mean that the proposed networks not only resolve the optical filtering impairment issue at nodes but also achieve higher survivability. Numerical evaluations prove that the number of fibers needed is reduced by up to 20% relative to conventional networks with the same resiliency.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123595526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A trust model based on evidence-based subjective logic for securing wireless mesh networks","authors":"Freshta Popalyar, Akmal Yaqini","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401594","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a promising networking technology, which is cost effective, robust, easily maintainable and provides reliable service coverage. WMNs do not rely on a centralized administration and have a distributed nature in which nodes can participate in routing packets. Such design and structure makes WMNs vulnerable to a variety of security threats. Therefore, to ensure secure route discovery in WMNs, we propose a trust model which is based on Evidence- Based Subjective Logic (EBSL). The proposed trust model computes trust values of individual nodes and manages node reputation. We use watchdog detection mechanism to monitor selfish behavior in the network. A node's final trust value is calculated by aggregating the nodes direct and recommendation trust information. The proposed trust model ensures secure routing of packets by avoiding paths with untrusted nodes. The trust model is able to detect selfish behavior such as black-hole and gray-hole attacks.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115476199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On providing deadline-aware cloud storage services","authors":"Ghada Tlili, M. Zhani, H. Elbiaze","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401605","url":null,"abstract":"With the emergence of cloud computing and Big Data, many companies are increasingly relying on the cloud to store and retrieve tremendous amounts of data to leverage the scalability and performance offered by cloud storage services. As a result, data retrieval time has become of a paramount importance for cloud users especially. However, current data management systems are still not optimized to reduce such time. In this paper, we present a deadline-aware data request scheduling scheme, called DA-Resch, that aims at scheduling data requests in order to minimize data transfer times and to meet the deadlines specified by the users. We show through real experiments using OpenStack storage system (i.e., Swift) that, compared to the traditional Swift Client system, DA-Resch significantly increases the percentage of requests meeting their deadlines, reduces data transfer time and maximizes bandwidth usage.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"10 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114047286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliability maximization in stochastic binary systems","authors":"H. Cancela, G. Guerberoff, F. Robledo, P. Romero","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401638","url":null,"abstract":"A Stochastic Binary System (SBS) is a mathematical model of multi-component on-off systems subject to random failures. This model is an extension of network reliability models (where the components are either nodes or links). The reliability maximization is a major network design problem, where the goal is to find the network that maximizes the reliability subject to budget constraints. Even though the problem is computationally hard, the scientific literature offers uniformly most-reliable graphs for specific cases, and necessary criteria for optimality. The concept of uniformly most-reliable stochastic binary system is here introduced. We discuss some basic aspects which must be taken into account to develop a theory of reliability maximization in this setting: computational complexity, necessary conditions for reliability maximization and shared results with the classical theory for network design.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129881171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An extension of radio network information interfaces for connectivity management","authors":"E. Pencheva","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401582","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) converges telecommunications and cloud technology at the Radio Access Network (RAN). Taking the advantages of telecom cloud MEC allows rapid content processing at the very edge of the mobile network, delivering real-time services. The research is aimed to further develop the MEC potential for improving RAN performance parameters. The idea is to monitor UE connectivity parameters and to trigger a change of used radio technology as earlier as possible. With moving the connectivity management logic in MEC, data flows do not reach the core network. The paper proposes an extension of Radio Network Information Application Programming Interface (API) for connectivity management. The proposed APIs are described by information flows, data and behavioral models.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128868396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elie El Hayek, I. B. Yahia, Damian Arellanes, K. Lau
{"title":"Analysis of component-based approaches toward componentized 5G","authors":"Elie El Hayek, I. B. Yahia, Damian Arellanes, K. Lau","doi":"10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIN.2018.8401611","url":null,"abstract":"5G is expected to be modular by design toward autonomic and agile networks. In this regards, the 5G functional architecture is designed as service-based seeking to support the concept of Network Slicing. This leads us to the question: what componentization approach to implement this modular architecture? Is there a componentization approach that is suitable for all the network functions? Which design approach will help to have autonomic and cognitive networks? In this paper we shed the light on the different component-based approaches. In addition, we reviewed the state of the art addressing the applicability of component-based approaches to build autonomic networks. Therefore, we present discussion, comparison and synthesis as input to 5G related activities.","PeriodicalId":103076,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123859565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}