The increasing consumption of multimedia services and the demand of high-quality services
from customers has triggered a fundamental change in how we administer networks in terms …

Since wireless network virtualization enables abstraction and sharing of infrastructure and
radio spectrum resources, the overall expenses of wireless network deployment and …

New architectural and design approaches for radio access networks have appeared with the
introduction of network virtualization in the wireless domain. One of these approaches splits …

It is widely acknowledged that network slicing can tackle the diverse use cases and
connectivity services of the forthcoming next-generation mobile networks (5G). Resource …

The ongoing development of mobile communication networks to support a wide range of
superfast broadband services has led to massive capacity demand. This problem is …

This article provides a brief overview on the current development of software-defined mobile
networks (SDMNs). Software defined networking is seen as a promising technology to …

Virtualization has been seen as one of the main evolution trends in the forthcoming fifth
generation (5G) cellular networks which enables the decoupling of infrastructure from the …

Mobile cloud computing utilizing cloudlet is an emerging technology to improve the quality of
mobile services. In this paper, to better overcome the main bottlenecks of the computation …

Much like earlier" network softwarization" efforts, the Open RAN concept is poised to have a
transformative impact on the manner in which radio access networks (RANs) are realized …

In this paper, an Air-Ground Integrated VEhicular Network (AGIVEN) architecture is
proposed, where the aerial high-altitude platforms (HAPs) proactively push contents to …