One of the main goals of 5G networks is to support the technological and business needs of
various industries (the so-called verticals), which wish to offer to their customers a wide …

Thanks to its computational and forwarding capabilities, the mobile network infrastructure
can support several third-party (“vertical”) services, each composed of a graph of virtual …

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) comes with the promise of enabling low-latency
applications and of reducing core network load by offloading traffic to edge service …

Empowered by network softwarization, 5G systems have become the key enabler to foster
the digital transformation of the vertical industries by expanding the scope of traditional …

This article presents a system for 5G networks that makes it possible to meet the diverse
needs of vertical industries simultaneously sharing the same physical infrastructure …

Through their computational and forwarding capabilities, 5G networks can support multiple
vertical services. Such services may include several common virtual (network) functions …

Deploying services efficiently while satisfying their quality requirements is a major challenge
in network slicing. Effective solutions place instances of the services' virtual network …

Many real-world services can be provided through multiple virtual network function (VNF)
graphs, corresponding, for example, to high-and low-complexity variants of the service itself …

Network operators can operate services in a flexible way with virtual network functions
thanks to the network function virtualization technology. Flow partition allows aggregated …

First of all, thanks to my supervisor Carlos Jesús, who gave me the opportunity of doing this
PhD. I owe him the trust and support that he has always put on everything I have done, the …