Network slicing has been identified as the backbone of the rapidly evolving 5G technology.
However, as its consolidation and standardization progress, there are no literatures that …

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an emerging ecosystem, which aims at converging
telecommunication and IT services, providing a cloud computing platform at the edge of the …

Electromagnetic waves undergo multiple uncontrollable alterations as they propagate within
a wireless environment. Free space path loss, signal absorption, as well as reflections …

Mobile edge computing is a new computing paradigm, which pushes cloud computing
capabilities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge. However, with the sinking …

Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture framework where
network function that traditionally used dedicated hardware (middleboxes or network …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising approach to significantly reduce
network operational cost and improve quality of service (QoS) of mobile users by pushing …

Virtual network embedding arranges virtual network services onto substrate network
components. The performance of embedding algorithms determines the effectiveness and …