In the era of fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, a flexible, cost saving and
reliable deployment of the network infrastructures appears to be a crucial issue. The …

Considering the problems of low resource utilization and poor reliability of traditional
network slice embedding, a Reliability-aware Network Slice (NS) Reconfiguration and …

Network Function Virtualization has dramatically increased the flexibility in the deployment
of network services, however the execution of virtual functions on compute nodes equipped …

Software defined networking (SDN) is a promising technology in fifth generation wireless
networks (5G) where due to the adoption of a centralized SDN-controller, resources such as …

The articles in this special section focus on point-to-multipoint communications and
broadcasting. In the last few years, since the Internet, streaming video, and mobile devices …

Cascading failures in networked systems often lead to catastrophic consequence.
Defending cascading failure propagation by employing local load redistribution method is …

In the past few years, a diversity of proposals have been introduced to solve the popular
SDN controller placement problem (CPP). The goal was to minimize the latency among …

对网络实施攻击时, 人们希望在有限的资源下获得最大的毁伤效果, 而节点排序策略并不能实现
毁伤最大. 针对这种情况, 定义攻击有限节点集的网络毁伤最大化问题, 并给出问题的近似求解 …

Re-architecting mobile network functions and central office is one of the hottest topics of
software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). It is known as …

To adapt the rapid upgradation of the communication technology (eg, from 5G to 6G) and
reduce the redeployment cost, the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is regarded as a …