Scalable and flexible communication networks increasingly conduct the packet processing
for Network Functions (NFs) in General Purpose Computing (GPC) platforms. The …

Purpose Cloud computing originated in central data centers that are connected to the
backbone of the Internet. The network transport to and from a distant data center incurs long …

Existing Visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (vSLAM) approaches that offload
the complex self-localization computations from mobile robots over a wireless network to …

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications have diverse network session requirements.
Certain critical applications, such as emergency alert relays, as well as industrial floor …

Microservice applications are made of many interacting microservices that can leverage
different cloud servers to distribute the computational load horizontally, so these applications …

Diffusion-based molecular nanonetworks exploit the diffusion of molecules, eg, in free space
or in blood vessels, for the purpose of communication. This article comprehensively surveys …

An Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) is a mobile network architecture that allows a
Mobile Network Operator (MNO) to use network components from different vendors thanks to …

We consider a joint optimization problem of optical network resources and virtual network
function (VNF) placement for efficient content distribution. Current content distribution …

Recent years have witnessed the increasing number of mobile devices such as
smartphones and tablets that are characterized by low computing and storage capabilities …

Abstract Software Defined Networking has been the primary component for Quality of
Service provisioning in the last decade. The key idea in such networks is producing …