Consumer communications and networking [Series Editorial]
Ali C. Begen, Mario Kolberg, Madjid Merabti · IEEE Communications Magazine · 2016
This theme is strongly reflected in the four articles we have selected for this edition of the Consumer Communications and Networking series. The theme includes the enhancement of network features as well as network extensions to cover an even larger area and to reach more people. Articles in this edition cover network topics including flow updates in software defined networks, interconnecting ISP content delivery networks, providing connectivity to rural communities, and supporting consumer services on industrial deterministic networks. More specifically, the first article in this edition, by Yujie Liu et al., focuses on the resource trade-off of flow updates in software defined networks. It discusses how dynamic rule updates affect traffic flow and what additional resources are required to handle the flow update. The article provides both qualitative analysis and quantitative simulation results of the trade-off between bandwidth and flow table size.