Orchestration and Control in Software‐Defined 5G Networks: Research Challenges

G Nencioni, RG Garroppo, AJ Gonzalez… - Wireless …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks promises to be a major step in the evolution of
wireless technology. 5G is planned to be used in a very broad set of application scenarios …

5G multi-access edge computing: A survey on security, dependability, and performance

G Nencioni, RG Garroppo, RF Olimid - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Fifth Generation (5G) of mobile networks offers new and advanced services with stricter
requirements. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a key technology that enables these …

Real-time link verification in software-defined networks

S Soltani, M Shojafar, H Mostafaei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) has been widely adopted in different networks, such as
datacenter and service providers. The SDN controller has the entire network view and is …

Network-aware availability modeling of an end-to-end NFV-enabled service

B Tola, G Nencioni, BE Helvik - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represents a key shift in nowadays network service
provisioning by entailing higher flexibility, elasticity, and programmability of network …

Rule caching in SDN-enabled base stations supporting massive IoT devices with bursty traffic

SH Rastegar, A Abbasfar… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) is recognized as a promising solution for the efficient
management of numerous devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). To appropriately forward …

Migrating from legacy to software defined networks: A network reliability perspective

Y Al Mtawa, A Haque, H Lutfiyya - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing survivable communication networks to achieve carrier-grade five-nines reliability
is of paramount importance for the network operators. This article addresses service …

A new protection-based approach for link failure management of software-defined networks

H Seddiqi, S Babaie - IEEE Transactions on Network Science …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Restoration-based failure management techniques select new paths for software-defined
networks (SDN) after diagnosing broken links, which are time-consuming and require steady …

Joint optimization of primary and backup controller placement and availability link upgrade in SDN networks

D Santos, T Gomes - Optical Switching and Networking, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In Software-Defined Networking (SDN), the control and data planes are decoupled,
leading to a more programmable and efficient network management. In this paper, the …

Robust SDN controller placement to malicious node attacks

D Santos, A De Sousa… - 2018 21st Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In software-defined networking (SDN), the control plane is separated from the switching
plane (ie, data plane). The logically centralized control plane is implemented by physically …

Trade-offs between risk and operational cost in SDN failure recovery plan

SA Astaneh, S Shah Heydari, S Taghavi Motlagh… - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
We consider the problem of SDN flow optimization in the presence of a dynamic probabilistic
link failures model. We introduce a metric for path risk, which can change dynamically as …