Mobile networks are facing an unprecedented demand for high-speed connectivity
originating from novel mobile applications and services and, in general, from the adoption …

Industry 4.0 promotes manufacturing and process industry towards digitalization and
intellectualization. Edge computing can provide delay-sensitive services in industrial …

Edge cloud computing is a crucial enabler for applications or network services with stringent
communication requirements in the 5G networks and beyond era. Although edge compute …

Cloud Native (CN) in 5G systems has been identified as a pivotal candidate for operational
and capital expenditure savings as well as for improvements in system agility and services …

Internet adoption is increasing at the fastest rate ever driven by new mobile edge users. To
meet these added demands from network services efficiently, telecom service providers are …

Network function virtualization technology has long moved beyond the experimental phase
to become a standard in the implementation of modern telecommunications networks. It is …

The Fifth Generation (5G) of mobile networks offers new and advanced services with stricter
requirements. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a key technology that enables these …

Main memory databases (MMDBs) technology handles the primary database in Random
Access Memory (RAM) to provide high throughput and low latency. However, volatile …

In light of the ever growing energy needs of the ICT sector, a value that is becoming
increasingly important for a mobile network is its power consumption. However, the …

As the adoption of softwarized network functions (NFs) keeps growing, we evaluate the
performance benefits of SDN-aware data-plane implementations when compared to diverse …