The increasing number of heterogeneous devices connected to the Internet, together with
tight 5G requirements have generated new challenges for designing network infrastructures …

The 5G technology to be released in 2020 has a distinct advantage from its predecessor.
This difference also results in measurements of Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of …

5G networks provide higher flexibility and improved performance compared to previous
cellular technologies. This has raised expectations on the possibility to support advanced …

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) technologies bring important improvements in terms of
network bandwidth, latency, and use of context information and critical for services like …

Ongoing research and industrial exploitation of SDN and NFV technologies promise higher
flexibility on network automation and infrastructure optimization. Choosing the location of …

The classification of services in 5G/B5G (Beyond 5G) networks has become important for
telecommunications service providers, who face the challenge of simultaneously offering a …

The Network Slicing (NS) paradigm enables the partition of physical and virtual resources
among multiple logical networks, possibly managed by different tenants. In such a scenario …

The increasing demands for high capacity and ultra-low latency services require to introduce
a 5G mobile communications infrastructure based on a centralized radio access network …

In this paper, we present an analytical model to characterize the average queuing delay for
non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink system by taking the outage event into …

We consider a radio access network slice serving mobile users whose requests imply
computing requirements. Service is virtualized over either a powerful but distant cloud …