The Internet depends on economic relationships between ASes (Autonomous Systems), which come in different shapes and sizes - transit, content, and access networks. CDNs (Content delivery networks) are also a pivotal part of the Internet ecosystem and construct their overlays for faster content delivery. 

Radio-frequency based wireless communications have revolutionized our society. Thanks to important wireless communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, LTE, and so on, people can enjoy high data rate and pervasive connections while surfing the Internet. 

In the last decade, cellular networks are undergoing with a radical change in their basic design foundations. The huge increase in traffic demand requires a novel design of future cellular networks.

The goal of the thesis is to resolve distributed computing bottlenecks arising from continuously increasing amount of incoming data and from...

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks are one of the main key components in next cellular and WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks). mmWave...

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology is one of the main pillars of the next generation Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and...

The Electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is well regulated by frequency assignment authorities, national regulatory agencies and the International Communication Union (ITU)....

The infrastructure of current 4G mobile networks is being challenged by new data-hungry and latency-sensitive services appearing every day. To...

The consumption of multimedia content is moving from a residential environment to mobile phones. Mobile data traffic, driven mostly by video...

The proliferation of handheld devices and the pressing need of location-based services call for precise and accurate ubiquitous geographic mobile...