Traditional networking is hardware-based, having the control plane coupled with the data
plane. Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which has a logically centralized control plane …

With the development of recent innovative applications (eg, augment reality, self-driving, and
various cognitive applications), more and more computation-intensive and data-intensive …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a communication paradigm that brings cost efficiency
and flexibility through software-defined functions resident on centralized controllers …

The concepts of network function virtualization and end-to-end network slicing are the two
promising technologies empowering 5G networks for efficient and dynamic network/service …

Multiple distributed controllers have been used in software-defined networks (SDNs) to
improve scalability and reliability, where each controller manages one static partition of the …

Along with the development of 5G, NS plays an important role in the application of mobile
networks to meet all kinds of personalized requirements. In terms of NS concept, network …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has revolutionized service provisioning in cloud
datacenter networks. It enables the complete decoupling of Network Functions (NFs) from …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has been considered as a promising technology for
future Internet to increase the network flexibility, accelerate the service innovation, and …

The emerging mobile edge computing (MEC) evolutionarily extends the cloud services to
the network edge. In order to efficiently coordinate distributed edge resources, software …

General traffic analysis based on deep packet inspection (DPI) techniques at switches
cannot grasp the detailed knowledge of network applications going into internal switches …