Emerging 5G cellular networks are expected to face a dramatic increase in the volume of
mobile traffic and IoT user requests due to the massive growth in mobile devices and the …

Network functions virtualization (NFV) continues to gain attention as a paradigm shift in the
way telecommunications services are deployed and managed. By separating network …

The increasing popularity of modern virtualization-based datacenters continues to motivate
both industry and academia to provide answers to a large variety of new and challenging …

Cloud computing promises customers the on-demand ability to dynamically provision
virtualization resources in face of workload variations. Most existing scaling approaches …

Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) continues to gain attention as a paradigm shift in the
way telecommunications services are deployed and managed. By separating Network …

Distributed real‐time (DRT) systems are among the most complex software systems to
design, test, maintain, and evolve. The existence of components distributed over a network …

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently become a key technology that appeared in
response to the increasing focus on the emergence of new heterogeneous service chain …

Maintaining interactivity is one of the key challenges in distributed virtual environments
(DVEs). In this paper, we consider a new problem, termed the interactivity-constrained …

Multi-server architecture is very popular in Distributed Virtual Environments. Although multi-
server architecture has good scalability, the load balance and consistency are still …

In Distributed Virtual Environments (DVEs), the primary task is to maintain a consistent view
of the virtual world among all users. Multi-server architecture has been shown to have good …