Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Cloud computing and network slicing are essential concepts of forthcoming 5G mobile
systems. Network slices are essentially chunks of virtual computing and connectivity …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

Network slicing has become a fundamental property for next-generation networks,
especially because an inherent part of 5G standardisation is the ability for service providers …

Paradoxically, with an ever-increasing traffic demand, today transport-network operators
experience a progressive erosion of their margins. The alarms of change are set, and …

With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for the most of mobile network operators …

The Mobile Edge-Cloud (MEC) network has emerged as a promising networking paradigm
to address the conflict between increasing computing-intensive applications and resource …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms from dedicated hardware implementations to software instances running in a …

As an integrated environment deployed with wired and wireless infrastructures, the smart
city heavily relies on the wireless-optical broadband access network. The information flows …

Network slicing and multi-access edge computing (MEC) are new paradigms which play key
roles in 5G and beyond networks. In particular, network slicing allows network operators …