There has been a growing interconnection across the world owing to various multimedia applications and services. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is an attractive wireless solution for …
The fast growth in the amount of connected devices with computing capabilities in the past years has enabled the emergence of a new computing layer at the Edge. Despite being …
With the advent of 5G technology, we are witnessing the development of increasingly bandwidth-hungry network applications, such as enhanced mobile broadband, massive …
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm for network service provisioning which decouples the network functions from the physical infrastructure …
In the last twenty years, optical networks have witnessed recurrent changes in their management and control architecture. In this paper, we present a historical timeline and a …
The utmost advancements of artificial neural networks (ANNs), software-defined networks (SDNs) and internet of things (IoT) technologies find beneficial in different applications of the …
Empowered by network softwarization, 5G systems have become the key enabler to foster the digital transformation of the vertical industries by expanding the scope of traditional …
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) changed radically the way 5G networks will be deployed and services will be delivered to …
Metropolitan networks are undergoing a major technological breakthrough leveraging the capabilities of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) …