Internet of Things (IoT) services have been implemented for several network applications
from smart cities to rural areas. However, there are many barriers to provide an efficient …

High availability is one of the important requirements of many end-to-end services in the
Internet of Things (IoT). This is a critical issue in network function virtualization (NFV) and …

With IoT-based smart cities, massive heterogeneous IoT devices are running diverse
advanced services for unprecedented intelligence and efficiency in various domains of city …

Based on network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined network (SDN), network
slicing is proposed as a new paradigm for building service-customized 5G network. In each …

Fog computing is an emerging paradigm that aims to improve the efficiency and QoS of
cloud computing by extending the cloud to the edge of the network. This paper develops a …

Fog computing reduces the latency induced by distant clouds by enabling the deployment of
some application components at the edge of the network, on fog nodes, while keeping …

We propose a novel network architecture by leveraging the cloudlet concept, the software
defined networking technology, and the cellular network infrastructure to bring the …

To support the much desired ultra-short latency of 5G mobile systems, many micro-data
centers will be deployed in the vicinity of mobile users, defining a distributed edge cloud …

Abstract Edge Cloud Computing (ECC) is a new approach for bringing Mobile Cloud
Computing (MCC) services closer to mobile users in order to facilitate the complicated …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has revolutionized the way network services are
offered to end users. Individual network functions are decoupled from expensive and …