Mobile networks are facing an unprecedented demand for high-speed connectivity
originating from novel mobile applications and services and, in general, from the adoption …

The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

New architectural and design approaches for radio access networks have appeared with the
introduction of network virtualization in the wireless domain. One of these approaches splits …

Software Defined Networks: A Comprehensive Approach, Second Edition provides in-depth
coverage of the technologies collectively known as Software Defined Networking (SDN) …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has received, in the last years, significant interest from
the academic and the industrial communities alike. The decoupled control and data planes …

The requirements and key areas for 5G are gradually becoming more apparent, and it is
becoming clear that 5G will need to be able to deal with increased levels of diversity in both …

The significant growth in the number of WiFi-enabled devices as well as the increase in the
traffic conveyed through wireless local area networks (WLANs) necessitate the adoption of …

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an architecture for computer networking that provides
a clear separation between network control functions and forwarding operations. The …

Exponential growth of mobile subscribers and various application data traffic requirements
cause exorbitant load in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. Telecom operators are …

Wireless local area networks (WLANs) being the most common access technology, the use
of software-defined networks (SDN) in WLANs is inevitable as SDN paradigm has been …