Network function virtualization: State-of-the-art and research challenges

R Mijumbi, J Serrat, JL Gorricho… - … surveys & tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

QoE management of multimedia streaming services in future networks: A tutorial and survey

AA Barakabitze, N Barman, A Ahmad… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The highly demanding Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia applications pose increased
challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for assuring a reasonable Quality of …

Integrated NFV/SDN architectures: A systematic literature review

MS Bonfim, KL Dias, SFL Fernandes - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are new
paradigms in the move towards open software and network hardware. While NFV aims to …

TelcoFog: A unified flexible fog and cloud computing architecture for 5G networks

R Vilalta, V López, A Giorgetti, S Peng… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose the TelcoFog architecture as a novel, secure, highly distributed, and ultra-dense
fog computing infrastructure, which can be allocated at the extreme edge of a wired/wireless …

Demand-aware network function placement

T Lin, Z Zhou, M Tornatore… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization is an emerging network resource utilization approach which
decouples network functions from proprietary hardware and enables adaptive services to …

Integrated SDN/NFV management and orchestration architecture for dynamic deployment of virtual SDN control instances for virtual tenant networks

R Muñoz, R Vilalta, R Casellas, R Martinez… - Journal of Optical …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) have emerged
as the most promising candidates for improving network function and protocol …

Traffic load balancing using software defined networking (SDN) controller as virtualized network function

S Ejaz, Z Iqbal, PA Shah, BH Bukhari, A Ali… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SDN and NFV are collaboratively recognized as the most promising bearing for flexible
programmability of network control functions and protocols with dynamic usage of network …

Physical layer security for 6G: Toward achieving intelligent native security at layer-1

I Ara, B Kelley - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper lays the foundations for Physical Layer Security (PLS) as a native 6G
communication operation mode. 6G mobile network will enable intelligent applications …

Context-based access control management in ubiquitous environments

A Corrad, R Montanari, D Tibaldi - Third IEEE International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless connectivity and the widespread diffusion of portable devices raise new challenges
for ubiquitous service provisioning. Mobility of users causes frequent and unpredictable …

Prospects and research issues in multi-dimensional all optical networks

Y Ji, J Zhang, Y Zhao, X Yu, J Zhang… - Science China …, 2016 - search.proquest.com
Research into all optical network (AON) technology has been ongoing over the past decade,
and new features are constantly being developed. The advantages of AON include large …