Towards enabling critical mMTC: A review of URLLC within mMTC

SR Pokhrel, J Ding, J Park, OS Park, J Choi - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive machine-type communication (mMTC) and ultra-reliable and low-latency
communication (URLLC) are two key service types in the fifth-generation (5G) …

A comprehensive survey of the tactile internet: State-of-the-art and research directions

N Promwongsa, A Ebrahimzadeh… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet has made several giant leaps over the years, from a fixed to a mobile Internet,
then to the Internet of Things, and now to a Tactile Internet. The Tactile Internet goes far …

A blockchain-based network slice broker for 5G services

B Nour, A Ksentini, N Herbaut… - IEEE Networking …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With advent of 5G, the classical mobile network business model is shifting from a network-
operator-oriented business to a more open system with several actors. In this context, the …

Latency and availability driven VNF placement in a MEC-NFV environment

L Yala, PA Frangoudis… - 2018 IEEE Global …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is gaining momentum as it is considered as one of the
enablers of 5G ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (uRLLC) services. MEC …

Toward ultrareliable low-latency communications: Typical scenarios, possible solutions, and open issues

D Feng, C She, K Ying, L Lai, Z Hou… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrareliable low-latency communications (URLLC) is one of three emerging application
scenarios in 5G new radio (NR) for which physical layer design aspects have been …

Service-oriented MEC applications placement in a federated edge cloud architecture

B Brik, PA Frangoudis, A Ksentini - ICC 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is one of the key enablers in 5G, where the objective is
to bring computation very close to the end users. MEC, as defined by ETSI, introduces …

Nrflex: Enforcing network slicing in 5g new radio

K Boutiba, A Ksentini, B Brik, Y Challal… - Computer Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
The emerging 5G networks promise to support novel network services with different
requirements in terms of Quality of Service (QoS), such as low-latency and high bandwidth …

LACO: A latency-driven network slicing orchestration in beyond-5G networks

L Zanzi, V Sciancalepore… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Slicing is expected to become a game changer in the upcoming 5G networks and
beyond, enlarging the telecom business ecosystem through still-unexplored vertical industry …

On using reinforcement learning for network slice admission control in 5G: Offline vs. online

S Bakri, B Brik, A Ksentini - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving a fair usage of network resources is of vital importance in Slice‐ready 5G network.
The dilemma of which network slice to accept or to reject is very challenging for the …

Data-driven RAN slicing mechanisms for 5G and beyond

S Bakri, PA Frangoudis, A Ksentini… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main challenges when it comes to deploying Network Slices is slicing the Radio
Access Network (RAN). Indeed, managing RAN resources and sharing them among network …