Security has become the primary concern in many telecommunications industries today as
risks can have high consequences. Especially, as the core and enable technologies will be …

The explosive rise of Internet of Things (IoT) systems have notably increased the potential
attack surfaces for cybercriminals. Accounting for the features and constraints of IoT devices …

Building on the principles of openness and intelligence, there has been a concerted global
effort from the operators towards enhancing the radio access network (RAN) architecture …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is the key outcome of extensive research efforts over the
past few decades toward transforming the Internet infrastructure to be more programmable …

Network functions virtualization (NFV), along with software-defined networking (SDN), drives
a new change in networking infrastructure with respect to designing, deploying, and …

Machine learning (ML) is expected to solve many challenges in the fifth generation (5G) of
mobile networks. However, ML will also open the network to several serious cybersecurity …

Industrial control systems (ICSs) and critical infrastructure are targeted by sophisticated
cyber incidents launched by skillful and persistent attackers. Due to political, public image …

With the popularization and development of cloud computing, network function virtualization
and service function chain (SFC) provisioning have attracted increasing attention from …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a rapidly growing technology that enables the
virtualization of traditional network hardware components, offering benefits such as cost …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Service Function Chaining (SFC) offer flexible
end-to-end services that deploy virtual network functions in clouds of competing providers …