Energy consumption has become a significant concern for cloud service providers due to financial as well as environmental factors. As a result, cloud service providers are seeking innovative ways that allow them to reduce the amount of energy that their data centers consume. They are calling for the development of...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new networking
paradigm that decouples the forwarding and control planes—
traditionally being coupled with one another—while adopting a
logically centralized architecture aiming to increase network agility
and programability. While many efforts are currently being made
to standardize this emerging paradigm, careful attentions need to
be...