Scientific and technological breakthroughs carry with themselves a pertinent question— “what's next”. The evolution of mobile networks and spectrum technology over the last two …
One of the main goals of 5G networks is to support the technological and business needs of various industries (the so-called verticals), which wish to offer to their customers a wide …
Thanks to its computational and forwarding capabilities, the mobile network infrastructure can support several third-party (“vertical”) services, each composed of a graph of virtual …
Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm and it has attracted considerable attention from both the industry and academia because of its potential to …
Through their computational and forwarding capabilities, 5G networks can support multiple vertical services. Such services may include several common virtual (network) functions …
Network function virtualization is one of the most relevant enabling technologies for 5G: conceiving a vertical service as a set of virtual network functions (VNFs) makes it possible to …