Paradoxically, with an ever-increasing traffic demand, today transport-network operators
experience a progressive erosion of their margins. The alarms of change are set, and …

In this work, we present and analyze methods and mechanisms for interconnecting a
network slice control and management system of the mobile network, with an IEEE Time …

Emerging mega-trends (eg, mobile, social, cloud, and big data) in information and
communication technologies (ICT) are commanding new challenges to future Internet, for …

Software-defined networking (SDN) has recently gained unprecedented attention from
industry and research communities, and it seems unlikely that this will be attenuated in the …

The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

Since the appearance of OpenFlow back in 2008, software-defined networking (SDN) has
gained momentum. Although there are some discrepancies between the standards …

The Internet of Everything (IoE) connects millions of machines, vehicles, nodes, smoke
detectors, watches, glasses, webcams, and other devices to the internet. These entities need …

Software defined networking (SDN) is an idea that promises to simplify and unify the way
that networks are designed and managed. SDN employs an abstraction that separates the …

The contemporary Internet has evolved from an academic infrastructure to a tremendous
commercial network, serving as an indispensable information platform for human …

Software defined networking (SDN) decouples the control plane from the data plane of
forwarding devices. This separation provides several benefits, including the simplification of …