The fifth generation (5G) of mobile communication system aims to deliver a ubiquitous
mobile service with enhanced quality of service (QoS). It is also expected to enable new use …

Software-defined networking (SDN) features the decoupling of the control plane and data
plane, a programmable network and virtualization, which enables network infrastructure …

Although the radio access network (RAN) part of mobile networks offers a significant
opportunity for benefiting from the use of SDN ideas, this opportunity is largely untapped due …

HetVNETs can meet various QoS requirements for intelligent transport system services by
integrating different access networks coherently. However, the current network architecture …

For many, this is no longer a valid question and the case is considered settled with software
defined networking/network function virtualization (SDN/NFV) providing the inevitable …

This paper describes in detail the design of a 5G platform based on the C-RAN architecture,
with a fully virtualized Radio Access Network (RAN) and an optical/wireless Fronthaul. The …

The rise of heterogeneity in technology, types of services, and coverage area of radio
access in the Fifth Generation (5G) wireless communication, opens new challenges in …

This paper explores latency-aware and policy-aware optimized placement of virtual network
functions across data centers in NFV systems. A hierarchy of distributed data centers is …

Infrastructure providers (InPs) can provide virtual networks (VNs) to service providers (SPs)
through wireless network virtualization. These VNs share the wireless spectrum and they are …

Spectrum and infrastructure sharing among multiple mobile network operators have recently
drawn significant attention from the industry and the academia sectors. Recent advances in …