The imminent arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT), which consists of a vast number of
devices with heterogeneous characteristics, means that future networks need a new …

Virtualization is a topic of great interest in the area of mobile and wireless communication
systems. However, the term virtualization is used in an inexact manner which makes it …

As a new network concept, SDN subverts the vertical structure of traditional network
integration, decoupling the control plane and data plane of the network, replacing distributed …

Wireless network slicing (ie, network virtualization) is one of the potential technologies for
addressing the issue of rapidly growing demand in mobile data services related to 5G …

The successful virtualization of wireless access networks is strongly affected by the way in
which radio resources are managed. The Infrastructure Provider (InP) is required to deploy …

Future wireless networks are expected to provide augmented and data-intensive services in
a multi-vendor multi-proprietor scenario. This scenario introduces relevant challenges to the …

Virtualization of wired networks and end computing systems has become one of the leading
trends in networked ICT systems. In contrast relatively little virtualization has occurred in …

Virtualization of wireless networks has received more and more research attention. As a
means to reduce the investment of mobile network operators and to improve the network …

Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are being considered as one of the enabling
technologies to avoid road accidents by allowing the vehicles to share the traffic-related …

Wireless access virtualization is an emerging avenue for research for future 5G networks.
For its ability to augment network sharing and its subsequent impact on reducing network …