Multi-connectivity for 5G networks and beyond: A survey

T Sylla, L Mendiboure, S Maaloul, H Aniss, MA Chalouf… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
To manage a growing number of users and an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth,
future 5th Generation (5G) cellular networks will combine different radio access technologies …

Joint resource management and flow scheduling for SFC deployment in hybrid edge-and-cloud network

Y Mao, X Shang, Y Yang - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) migrates network functions from proprietary hardware
to commercial servers on the edge or cloud, making network services more cost-efficient …

Provably efficient algorithms for traffic-sensitive sfc placement and flow routing

Y Mao, X Shang, Y Yang - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has the potential of cost-efficiency, manage-
convenience, and flexibility but meanwhile poses challenges for the service function chain …

Real-time update of joint SFC and routing in software defined networks

X Fan, H Xu, H Huang, X Yang - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet the ever-increasing demands for high-quality network services, a software defined
network (SDN) can support various virtual network functions (VNFs) using virtualization …

Latency-efficient vnf deployment and path routing for reliable service chain

Y Chen, J Wu - IEEE Transactions on Network Science and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network services usually chain multiple types of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) together
in a specific order, known as service chain. One important issue of providing network …

Enhancing federated learning with intelligent model migration in heterogeneous edge computing

J Liu, Y Xu, H Xu, Y Liao, Z Wang… - 2022 IEEE 38th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To approach the challenges of non-IID data and limited communication resource raised by
the emerging federated learning (FL) in mobile edge computing (MEC), we propose an …

Federated Learning With Experience-Driven Model Migration in Heterogeneous Edge Networks

J Liu, S Wang, H Xu, Y Xu, Y Liao… - IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To approach the challenges of non-IID data and limited communication resource raised by
the emerging federated learning (FL) in mobile edge computing (MEC), we propose an …

Scalable and flexible traffic steering for service function chains

R Chen, J Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has inspired numerous orchestration algorithms to
decide Virtualized Network Function (VNF) placement and routing paths for service requests …

Near optimal and dynamic mechanisms towards a stable NFV market in multi-tier cloud networks

Z Xu, H Ren, W Liang, Q Xia, W Zhou… - IEEE INFOCOM 2021 …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the fast development of next-generation networking techniques, a Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) market is emerging as a major market that allows network service …

Adaptive Block-Wise Regularization and Knowledge Distillation for Enhancing Federated Learning

J Liu, Q Zeng, H Xu, Y Xu, Z Wang… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed model training framework that allows multiple
clients to collaborate on training a global model without disclosing their local data in edge …