Network function virtualization and service function chaining frameworks: A comprehensive review of requirements, objectives, implementations, and open research …

HU Adoga, DP Pezaros - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
Network slicing has become a fundamental property for next-generation networks,
especially because an inherent part of 5G standardisation is the ability for service providers …

A review on Virtualized Infrastructure Managers with management and orchestration features in NFV architecture

K Kaur, V Mangat, K Kumar - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Nowadays, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a growing and powerful
technology in the research community and IT world. Traditional computer networks consist of …

Federated reinforcement learning: Techniques, applications, and open challenges

J Qi, Q Zhou, L Lei, K Zheng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11887, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL),
an emerging and promising field in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Starting with a tutorial of …

Digital twin enhanced federated reinforcement learning with lightweight knowledge distillation in mobile networks

X Zhou, X Zheng, X Cui, J Shi, W Liang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high-speed mobile networks offer great potentials to many future intelligent applications,
such as autonomous vehicles in smart transportation systems. Such networks provide the …

Dynamic sfc embedding algorithm assisted by federated learning in space-air-ground integrated network resource allocation scenario

P Zhang, Y Zhang, N Kumar… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional terrestrial wireless communication networks cannot support the requirements for
high-quality services for artificial intelligence applications such as smart cities. The space …

On the specialization of fdrl agents for scalable and distributed 6g ran slicing orchestration

F Rezazadeh, L Zanzi, F Devoti… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing enables multiple virtual networks to be instantiated and customized to meet
heterogeneous use case requirements over 5G and beyond network deployments …

Digital twin assisted resource allocation for network slicing in industry 4.0 and beyond using distributed deep reinforcement learning

L Tang, Y Du, Q Liu, J Li, S Li… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personalization is one of the primary emerging trends in Industry 4.0 and Beyond. Highly
personalized services will present a significant challenge to the existing algorithms for …

Service function chaining in industrial Internet of Things with edge intelligence: A natural actor-critic approach

J Li, R Wang, K Wang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to network function virtualization (NFV), each industrial application is constructed as a
service function chain (SFC), concatenating the ordered service functions, to offer …

When Moving Target Defense Meets Attack Prediction in Digital Twins: A Convolutional and Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Approach

T Zhang, C Xu, Y Lian, H Tian, J Kang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With rapid development of emerging technologies for Internet of Things (IoT), digital twins
(DT) have been proposed to support a wide variety of applications. A mobile network is …

H-HOME: A learning framework of federated FANETs to provide edge computing to future delay-constrained IoT systems

C Grasso, R Raftopoulos, G Schembra, S Serrano - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
In 6G systems, it will be mandatory that the network is able to support edge computing
powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide mobile devices with the opportunity of job …