To pave the way towards disclosing the full potential of 5G networking, emerging Mobile
Edge Computing techniques are gaining momentum in both academic and industrial …

This paper focuses on the design and deployment of a virtualized evaluation testbed, solely
based on open-source software components to support the full extend of features and …

With an increase in the number of mobile users and traffic, mobile network operators are
finding it difficult to scale their radio and core networks. Further, hardware network …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) consists of implementing network functions as
software applications that can run on general-purpose servers. This paper discusses the …

With the development of network technology, there are billions of devices accessing
resources and services on the cloud through mobile telecommunication network. A great …

Many ongoing research activities relevant to 5 G mobile systems concern the virtualization of
the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) elements aiming for system scalability, elasticity, flexibility …

With the increasing acceptance of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software
Defined Networking (SDN) technologies, a radical transformation is currently occurring …

Many different technologies fostering and supporting distributed and decentralized
computing scenarios emerged recently. Edge computing provides the necessary on …

In this paper, we describe an evolution of the mobile Evolved Packet Core (EPC) utilizing
Software Defined Networking (SDN) that allows the EPC control plane to be moved into a …

The objective of this article is to demonstrate the feasibility of on-demand creation of cloud-
based elastic mobile core networks, along with their lifecycle management. For this purpose …