This article presents the Logical Infrastructure Composition Layer as a solution produced in
the context of the European project GEYSERS for ICT infrastructure virtualisation in the …

The new and emerging IT services require very high network capacities and specific IT
resources that cannot be intrinsically delivered by the current Best Effort Internet. In …

Virtualisation of both IT and network resources is a well-known research topic in the Future
Internet environment. Most of the work performed on virtualisation has been focused on …

Abstract The European Union Project Networking innovations Over Virtualized
Infrastructures (NOVI) set out to design and implement a modular data, control and …

Network virtualisation is a promising technique for dealing with the resistance of the Internet
to architectural changes, enabling a novel business model in which infrastructure …

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), which is offered by cloud computing, has focused on
providing computing and storage resources, considering network mostly as a required …

The Cloud Computing wave consolidates the on-demand provisioning of configurable virtual
machines. Recent projects have proposed the extension of the original IaaS paradigm to …

Virtualization promises to overcome the weaknesses of the current Internet and to act as a
torch bearer technology for enabling innovative network architectures. However, a …

Network service providers have to cope with the growing on-demand need from end-users
as well as the diversity of usage. The softwerization and cloudification of the network …

One of the research challenges approached recently in the literature is the efficient mapping
of virtual networks on top of physical infrastructures. Although there have been efforts to …