Due to the fast development in communication technology and the emerging usage of
Internet of Things (IoT) devices that produce a huge amount of data, the fifth generation (5G) …

Future 5G mobile network architecture is expected to offer capacities to accommodate the
inexorable rise in mobile data traffic and to meet further stringent latency and reliability …

Nowadays, the increase in the number of mobile users and cellular traffic leads to new
challenges in the fifth-generation (5G) of cellular networks. The increase in the demand for …

Recent advances in information and communications cloud-based services hold the
potential to overcome the scalability and complex maintenance limitations of traditional …

To provide ubiquitous Internet access under the explosive increase of applications and data
traffic, the current network architecture has become highly heterogeneous and complex …

The tremendous growth in wireless Internet use is showing no signs of slowing down.
Existing cellular networks are starting to be insufficient in meeting this demand, in part due to …

The ever-increasing number of network-capable devices places a massive burden on
modern networks. Communication infrastructure should provide quality-of-service essentials …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is making their way into the fifth generation of mobile
communications. For example, 3GPP is embracing the concept of control-user plane …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a novel network paradigm that enables flexible
management for networks. As the network size increases, the single centralized controller …

The need to provide services closer to the end‐user proximity leads to the exchange of a
large volume of data generated from the smart devices deployed at different geo‐distributed …