Abstract The Internet of things (IoT) is a fast evolving technology that enables the
development of smart services in numerous domains, such as transportation, health care …

With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for the most of mobile network operators …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an innovative network architecture that splits the
control and management planes from the data plane. It helps in simplifying network …

Fog computing is an emerging technology which enables computing resources accessibility
close to the end-users. It overcomes the drawbacks of available network bandwidth and …

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 …

Knowledge-Defined Networking (KDN) necessarily consists of a knowledge plane for the
generation of knowledge, typically using machine learning techniques, and the …

Fifth generation (5G) mobile communication technology can enable novel healthcare
applications and augment existing ones. However, 5G-enabled healthcare applications …

The proliferation of IoT devices and integration of machine learning technologies paved the
path towards automation in various sectors such as manufacturing, communication …

Fog computing is a paradigm that offers distributed and diverse resources at the network
edge to fulfill the quality of service requirements. However, effectively managing these …

Cooperative edge offloading to nearby end devices via Device-to-Device (D2D) links in
edge networks with sliced computing resources has mainly been studied for end devices …