R Alvizu, G Maier, N Kukreja… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Paradoxically, with an ever-increasing traffic demand, today transport-network operators experience a progressive erosion of their margins. The alarms of change are set, and …
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) have emerged as the most promising candidates for improving network function and protocol …
P Öhlén, B Skubic, A Rostami, M Fiorani… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Next generation 5G mobile system will support the vision of connecting all devices that benefit from a connection, and support a wide range of services. Consequently, 5G transport …
An important problem in designing infrastructure to support business-to-business integration (B2Bi) is how to cancel a long-running interaction (either because the user has changed …
Future 5G networks will bring important challenges to network operators, such as the traffic load increase mainly due to the proliferation of mobile broadband communications. This will …
M Fiorani, A Rostami, L Wosinska… - IEEE Communications …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a centralized radio access network (C-RAN) scenario the joint coordination of radio (eg, remote radio units, baseband units) and transport (eg, optical cross connects) resources can …
Abstract As Software-Defined Networks become more and more popular, they start to appear in various architectures. The most common utilization of SDN is to control the …
M Fiorani, A Rostami, L Wosinska… - Journal of Optical …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The orchestration of radio, transport, and cloud resources is a key enabler for efficient service delivery in 5G networks. Orchestration can be achieved with a hierarchical software …