In order to accommodate rapid contemporary networks evolution, in a scalable and cost-effective manner, it is desirable to have an adaptable network which deploys a reconfigurable logic device to modify or change the processing element and the corresponding protocol, when needed. To address this requirement, this book presents a novel adaptable network framework which provides predefined adaptation and non-predefined adaptation to fulfil the flexibility. In the non-predefined adaptation framework, networks can dynamically update the network elements at either the system level or the function...