The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a crucial research field spawned by the Internet of
Things (IoT). IIoT links all types of industrial equipment through the network; establishes data …

The explosive rise of Internet of Things (IoT) systems have notably increased the potential
attack surfaces for cybercriminals. Accounting for the features and constraints of IoT devices …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) tsunami, public embracement, and the ubiquitous
adoption of smart devices are affecting virtually every industry, directly or indirectly. The …

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) connecting billions of mobile and stationary
devices to serve real-time applications, cloud computing paradigms face some significant …

With the increasing demand of low-latency network services, mobile edge computing (MEC)
emerges as a new paradigm, which provides server resources and processing capacities in …

Future networks are expected to support low-latency, context-aware and user-specific
services in a highly flexible and efficient manner. One approach to support emerging use …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are new
paradigms in the move towards open software and network hardware. While NFV aims to …

Emerging virtual network functions (VNFs) bring new opportunities to network services on
the edge within customers' premises. Network services are realized by chained up VNFs …

Edge computing is promoted to meet increasing performance needs of data‐driven services
using computational and storage resources close to the end devices at the edge of the …

In order to facilitate flexible network service virtualization and migration, network functions
(NFs) are increasingly executed by software modules as so-called “softwarized NFs” on …