As industries are under pressure for shorter business and product life cycles, there is an
extensive effort from the research community for novel and profitable automation processes …

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are considered self-organizing, self-healing, and self-
configuring networks. Despite these exciting features, WMNs face several routing …

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been seen as a revolutionary and exciting network
technology that aims to enable control and network management of various network types …

Designing survivable communication networks to achieve carrier-grade five-nines reliability
is of paramount importance for the network operators. This article addresses service …

The emergence of the new technologies such as virtualization and distributed cloud
computing has provided new opportunities for management and orchestration of the …

Traditional networking solutions are unable to meet modern computing needs due to the
expanding popularity of the internet, which requires increased agility and flexibility. To meet …

As new networking architectures such as 5G start materializing in the next era of
communication revolution, economic and operational facets of these future networks drive …

Software defined networks (SDN) are a recently developed form for controlling network
management by providing centralized control unit called the Controller. This master …

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm in networking and of high
interest to the mobile network operators due to its potential benefit in improving network …

Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been deemed as a revolutionary
technology promising for facilitation of network management. However, transitioning the …