The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications has led to the interconnection of
multiaccess edge computing (MEC) systems through metro optical networks. To cater to …

The 5G telecommunication ecosystem is expected to dynamically support new and various
applications from the industrial and the service sectors that are very heterogeneous in terms …

The emerging 5G applications and the connectivity of billions of devices have driven the
investigation of multi-domain heterogeneous converged optical networks. To support …

Elastic Optical Network (EON) virtualization has recently emerged as an enabling
technology for 5G network slicing. A fundamental problem in EON slicing (known as Virtual …

Network virtualization (NV) is one important attribute of the next generation network (eg,
upcoming 5G virtualized networking). Virtual network embedding (VNE) is about the …

In the era of Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is developing rapidly, various
IIoT applications pose new challenges to the existing network architecture. On the one hand …

Network slicing remains one of the key technologies in 5G and beyond 5G networks (B5G).
By leveraging SDN and NVF techniques, it enables the coexistence of several …

Network Virtualization (NV) technology allows multiple virtual network requests to share
resources on the same subtract network. In network virtualization, Virtual Network …

Many existing virtual network embedding (VNE) algorithms adopt the greedy embedding
strategies, which embed the in-progress virtual network requests (VNRs) onto the substrate …

The past few years have seen the dramatic adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) in
everyday life, from manufacturing to healthcare. With the emergence of various new Internet …