The proliferation of 5G technology is enabling vertical industries to improve their day-to-day
operations by leveraging enhanced Quality of Service (QoS). One of the key enablers for …

Network slicing is a widely discussed technology for satisfying the diverse requirements in
5G and beyond scenarios. It enables the operators to create end-to-end virtual slices in …

The contemporary landscape of telecommunications is defined by the advent of Fifth
Generation (5G) and the tantalizing promise of Beyond 5G (B5G) networks. 5G and B5G …

Beyond 5G applications, future 6G services would need to support very large data volumes
for emerging industry verticals, such as holographic-type communications, as well as time …

Nowadays networks are the basis of our communication providing a great number of
services. As a consequence, the traffic is increasing and there is a growing demand for new …

The rise of traffic intensive services and applications is pushing the limits of conventional
single band Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks. As an answer to this …

Optical networks are supporting a wide range of communication services including
residential services, enterprise services, and mobile services. Figure 1 illustrates a typical …

We present a slice admission policy based on reinforcement learning able to maximize the
profit of an infrastructure provider. Results show that when tenants request slices with …

With the evolution of 5G networks towards fully software, Network Slicing (NS) has emerged
as a new paradigm to create a set of customised logical network instances on top of the …

In the upcoming 5G networks and following the emerging software-defined
networking/network function virtualization (SDN/NFV) paradigm, demanded services will be …