The fifth-generation mobile initiative, 5G, is a tremendous and collective effort to specify,
standardize, design, manufacture, and deploy the next cellular network generation. 5G …

Traffic classification acquired the interest of the Internet community early on. Different
approaches have been proposed to classify Internet traffic to manage both security and …

Next-Generation (NG) mobile networks are expected to revolutionize wireless
communication systems, facilitating the deployment of critical applications with stringent …

5G mobile networks are envisioned to substantiate new vertical services with diverse
performance requirements. Slicing in the radio access network (RAN) promises an efficient …

Network function virtualization is considered one of the key technologies for developing
future mobile networks. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework to evaluate the …

Network operators and mobile carriers are facing serious security challenges caused by an
increasing number of services provided by smartphone Apps. For example, Android OS has …

Distributed denial of service is one of the most critical threats to the availability of Internet
services. A botnet with only 0.01 percent of the 50 billion connected devices in the Internet of …

Network Virtualization is one of the key technologies for developing the future mobile
networks. In this paper we propose an LTE virtualized Mobility Management Entity queue …

Mobile users have not been able to exploit spatio-temporal differences between individual
mobile networks operators for a variety of reasons. End user network switching and …

We analyze 4G and 5G transport-layer sessions generated by a wide range of mobile
services at over 282,000 base stations (BSs) of an operational mobile network, and carry out …