Security has become the primary concern in many telecommunications industries today as
risks can have high consequences. Especially, as the core and enable technologies will be …

The development of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks is gaining momentum to
connect almost all aspects of life through the network with much higher speed, very low …

Abstract 5G has been launched in a few countries of the world, so now all focus shifted
towards the development of future 6G networks. 5G has connected all aspects of society …

Sixth-generation communication networks must be highly dependable due to the foreseen
connectivity of critical infrastructures through them. Dependability is a compound metric of …

Abstract Link Flooding Attacks (LFA) are a devastating type of stealthy denial of service
attack that congests critical network links and can completely isolate the victim's network. In …

Effective, long-lasting Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions start with short-term gains and
progressively mature with added capabilities and value. The heterogeneous nature of IIoT …

Future networks will be accompanied by new heterogeneous requirements in terms of end-
users Quality of Experience (QoE) due to the increasing number of application scenarios …

Abstract 5G networks will be characterized by their diversity in terms of traffic patterns, multi-
tenancy and heterogeneous and stringent traffic requirements. Network softwarization is a …

Nowadays, in mobile networks, latency-sensitive services may compete for the bandwidth of
other services, thus degrading overall performance. Software-defined mobile networks …

Traditional communication networks consist of large sets of vendor-specific manually
configurable devices which are hardwired with specific control logic or algorithms. The …