• A guaranteed performance of a green data center based on the contribution of vital nodes 

      Baccour, Emna; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      In order to satisfy the need for the critical computing resources, many data center architectures proposed to house a huge number of network devices. These devices are used to achieve the highest performance in case of ...
    • A survey of wireless data center networks 

      Baccour, Emna; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Hamdi, Mounir ( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Data centers are becoming more and more popular for a wide variety of applications. However, the efficiency of data centers are restricted by many issues like cabling and maintenance problems in addition to performance ...
    • Achieving energy efficiency in data centers with a performance-guaranteed power aware routing 

      Baccour, E.; Foufou, S.; Hamila, R.; Tari, Z. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      Nowadays, data centers are designed to offer the highest performance in case of high traffic load and peak utilisation of the network. However, in a realistic data center environment, the peak capacity of the network is ...
    • Adaptative Network Topology for Data Centers 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Data centers have an important role in supporting cloud computing services (such as email, social networking, web search, etc.) enterprise computing needs, and infrastructure-based services. Data center networking is a ...
    • Dynamic Distributed Multi-Path Aided Load Balancing for Optical Data Center Networks 

      Wang, Fu; Yao, Haipeng; Zhang, Qi; Wang, Jingjing; Gao, Ran; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)
      Benefiting from dense connections in data center networks (DCNs), load balancing algorithms are capable of steering traffic into multiple paths for the sake of preventing traffic congestion. However, given each path's ...
    • Efficient techniques for energy saving in data center networks 

      Chkirbene Z.; Gouissem A.; Hadjidj R.; Foufou S.; Hamila R. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)
      Data centers are constructed with a huge number of network devices to support the expanding cloud based services. These devices are used to achieve the highest performance in case of full utilization of the network. However, ...
    • Exploiting Traffic Correlation Towards Energy Saving in Data Centers 

      Chkirbene Z.; Gouissem A.; Hadjidj R.; Hamila R.; Foufou S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Many proposed data center architectures are constructed with a huge number of network devices in order to support the increasing cloud based services. These devices are used to achieve the highest performance in case of ...
    • Integrating variability management in data center networks 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Data centers have an important role in supporting cloud computing services (i.e. checking social media, sending emails, video conferencing, .). Hence, data centers topologies design became more important and must be able ...
    • LaCoDa: Layered connected topology for massive data centers 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Tari, Zahir; Zomaya, Albert Y. ( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)
      One of the fundamental challenges of existing data centers is to design a network that interconnects massive number of servers, and therefore providing an efficient and fault-tolerant routing service to upper-layer ...
    • Lascada: A novel scalable topology for data center network 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Hadjidj, Rachid; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( IEEE , 2020 , Article)
      The growth of cloud-based services is mainly supported by the core networking infrastructures of large-scale data centers, while the scalability of these services is influenced by the performance and dependability ...
    • Online parallelized service function chain orchestration in data center networks 

      Sun, Gang; Chen, Zhenrong; Yu, Hongfang; Du, Xiaojiang; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)
      In recent years, much attention has been focused on deploying service function chains (SFCs), each of which is composed of a set of virtual network functions (VNFs) in a specified order. This is a promising approach for ...
    • PTNet: An efficient and green data center network 

      Baccour, E.; Foufou, S.; Hamila, R.; Tari, Z.; Zomaya, A.Y. ( Academic Press Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      In recent years, data centers have witnessed an exponential growth for hosting hundreds of thousands of servers as well as to accommodating a very large demand for resources. To fulfill the required level of demand, some ...
    • ScalNet: A novel network architecture for data centers 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamdi, Mounir; Hamila, Ridha ( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of ScalNet, novel network architecture for data centers. ScalNet is a cost-effective, high- performance and scalable interconnect with almost flat architecture. ...
    • Towards bandwidth guaranteed energy efficient data center networking 

      Wang, Ting; Qin, Bo; Su, Zhiyang; Xia, Yu; Hamdi, Mounir; ... more authors ( Springer , 2015 , Article)
      The data center network connecting the servers in a data center plays a crucial role in orchestrating the infrastructure to deliver peak performance to users. In order to meet high performance and reliability requirements, ...
    • VacoNet: Variable and connected architecture for data center networks 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Todays data centers may contain tens of thousands of computers with progressively more specialized and expensive equipments. Thus, the research community has proposed various interconnect topologies e.g FatTree, Dcell and ...