The exponential growth and availability of data in all forms is the main booster to the
continuing evolution in the communications industry. The popularization of traffic-intensive …

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 …

The IoT paradigm holds the promise to revolutionize the way we live and work by means of a
wealth of new services, based on seamless interactions between a large amount of …

Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a novel mobile network architecture which can
address a number of challenges the operators face while trying to support growing end …

In recent years, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a pivotal element not
only in data-centers and wide-area networks, but also in next generation networking …

Ultra-dense networking (UDN) is considered as a promising technology for 5G. In this article,
we define user-centric UDN (UUDN) by introducing the philosophy of the network serving …

Although the radio access network (RAN) part of mobile networks offers a significant
opportunity for benefiting from the use of SDN ideas, this opportunity is largely untapped due …

To tackle the 1000× mobile data challenge, the research towards the 5th generation of
mobile cellular networks is currently ongoing. One clear enabler toward substantially …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is making their way into the fifth generation of mobile
communications. For example, 3GPP is embracing the concept of control-user plane …

The evolution of software defined networking (SDN) has played a significant role in the
development of next-generation networks (NGN). SDN as a programmable network having …