Editorial

• Special issue on future network: software-defined networking Editorial

  Tao HUANG ,   F. Richard YU ,   Yun-jie LIU  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):603-605

Review

• Enhancing the performance of futurewireless networks with software-defined networking Project supported by the US National Science Foundation (Nos. CNS-1247955 and CNS-1320664) and the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC) at Auburn University, Auburn, USA Review

  Mingjie FENG ,   Shiwen MAO ,   Tao JIANG  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):606-619

Article

• AKself-adaptive SDNcontroller placement for wide area networks Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61432002, 61370199, 61370198, 61300187, and 61402069), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Nos. DUT15QY20, DUT15TD29, and 3132016029), and the Prospective Research Project on Future Networks from Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute, China A preliminary version was presented at the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, Shanghai, China, Oct. 13–15, 2014 Article

  Peng XIAO ,   Zhi-yang LI ,   Song GUO ,   Heng QI ,   Wen-yu QU ,   Hai-sheng YU  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):620-633

• Asecure and high-performancemulti-controller architecture for software-defined networking Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61402357, 61272459, and 61402357), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2015M570835), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, and the CETC 54 Project (No. ITD-U14001/KX142600008) Article

  Huan-zhao WANG ,   Peng ZHANG ,   Lei XIONG ,   Xin LIU ,   Cheng-chen HU  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):634-646

• AnOpenFlow-based performance-orientedmultipath forwarding scheme in datacenters Project supported by the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2012CB315806), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61103225 and 61379149), the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. BK20140070), and the Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute Prospective Research Project on Future Networks, China (No. BY2013095-1-06) Article

  Bo LIU ,   Ming CHEN ,   Bo XU ,   Hui HU ,   Chao HU ,   Qing-yun ZUO ,   Chang-you XING  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):647-660

• A virtual service placement approach based on improved quantum genetic algorithm Project supported by the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (Nos. 2012CB315901 and 2013CB329104), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61309019, 61372121, 61572519, and 61502530), and the National High-Tech R&D Program (863) of China (Nos. 2015AA016102 and 2013AA013505) Article

  Gang XIONG ,   Yu-xiang HU ,   Le TIAN ,   Ju-long LAN ,   Jun-fei LI ,   Qiao ZHOU  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):661-671

• Avideo conferencing system based on SDN-enabled SVCmulticast Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61573329 and 61233003), the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China Article

  En-zhong YANG ,   Lin-kai ZHANG ,   Zhen YAO ,   Jian YANG  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):672-681

• A preliminary version was presented at the 13th Wireless and Wired International Conference, Malaga, Spain, May 25–27, 2015 Article

  Vignesh RENGANATHAN RAJA ,   Chung-Horng LUNG ,   Abhishek PANDEY ,   Guo-ming WEI ,   Anand SRINIVASAN  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):682-700

• 1 Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61201209 and 61401499), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China (No. 2015JM6340), and the Industrial Science and Technology Project of Shaanxi Province, China (No. 2016GY-087) Article

  Shui-qing GONG ,   Jing CHEN ,   Qiao-yan KANG ,   Qing-wei MENG ,   Qing-chao ZHU ,   Si-yi ZHAO  

  Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering 2016,17 (7):701-716