Networked systems form the backbone of modern society, underpinning critical
infrastructures such as electricity, water, transport and commerce, and other essential …

The evolution of mobile network technologies and their vertical integration, heterogeneity of
applications, and the advent of sophisticated end-user devices have continuously been …

Network management faces the interrelated challenges of increasing network complexity,
meeting sophisticated business requirements, and being subject to human oversight. Self …

Achieving high programmability has become an essential aim of network research due to
the ever-increasing internet traffic. Software-Defined Network (SDN) is an emerging …

The strong divide between applications and the network control plane is desirable, but
keeps the network in the dark regarding the ultimate purpose of applications and, as a result …

Clearly, whether revolutionary/clean-slate approaches or evolutionary approaches should
be followed when designing Future Multi-Service Self-Managing Networks, some holistic …

Self-organizing network (SON) is a well-known approach to reduce the complexity and the
cost of cellular network management. It aims at replacing the manual configuration and …

As communication and computation systems become more complex and target at higher
performance, the fundamental limits of nature can be expected to constrain their …

Virtualization and softwarization have driven the widespread adoption of the cloud
computing paradigm, with savings in CAPEX, OPEX, and environmental footprint, by …

Due to the increasing need of more agility in information exchange, computer networks are
continuously expanding both in magnitude and complexity of the management processes …