The increasing number of heterogeneous devices connected to the Internet, together with
tight 5G requirements have generated new challenges for designing network infrastructures …

Driven by the quality of experience (QoE) requirement of video streaming applications in the
smart city, smart education, immersive service, and connected vehicle scenarios, the …

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 …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) enables different smart environment objects to communicate
without involving humans. Recently, IoT has started a new challenge within the healthcare …

With the rapid development of the Internet and the explosive growth of network applications,
traditional computer networks have ushered in unprecedented challenges and …

Computation offloading has proven to be an effective method for facilitating resource-
intensive tasks on IoT mobile edge nodes with limited processing capabilities. Additionally …

Fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks fulfill the demands of critical applications, such as
Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), particularly in the automotive …

Service providers highly rely on network softwarization for addressing the demanding use
cases of the 5G verticals. In order for the 5G vertical scenarios to be seamlessly executed …

The ongoing quest for the tight integration of network operation and the network service
provisioning initiated with the introduction of 5G often clashes with the capacity of current …

The consolidation of 5G technologies makes the Industry 4.0 establishment more feasible
than ever. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Edge Computing aim at managing the …