• Flexible advance reservation models for virtual network scheduling 

      Bai, H.; Gu, F.; Shaban, K.; Crichigno, J.; Khan, S.; ... more authors ( IEEE Computer Society , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Advance reservation services allows users to pre-reserve network resources at future instants in time. These offerings are already being used by a wide range of applications in scientific/grid computing, datacenter backup, ...
    • Overlay network scheduling design 

      Bai, H.; Shaban, K.; Khodeir, M.; Gu, F.; Crichigno, J.; ... more authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)
      Advance reservation services are being used by a range of applications to schedule connection bandwidth resources at future time intervals. To date many different algorithms have been developed to support various point-to-point ...
    • Post-failure repair for cloud-based infrastructure services after disasters 

      Pourvali, M.; Cavdar, C.; Shaban, K.; Crichigno, J.; Ghani, N. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      Cloud infrastructure services allow organizations to outsource their computing, storage, and networking needs to external providers. These offerings use network virtualization to provision customized, interconnected resource ...
    • Virtual network advance reservation 

      Bai, H.; Gu, F.; Crichigno, J.; Khan, S.; Ghani, N.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Network virtualization provides a promising means of hosting multiple client infrastructures over a physical substrate. Now one of the key concerns here is how to map virtual network requests onto physical nodes and links, ...
    • Virtual network mapping for cloud services under probabilistic regional failures 

      Pourvali, M.; Bai, H.; Gu, F.; Shaban, K.; Naeini, M.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Network virtualization is critical for distributing cloud services over expanded distances and improving scalability and responsiveness. However many providers are very concerned about maintaining high availability, ...