The increasing consumption of multimedia services and the demand of high-quality services
from customers has triggered a fundamental change in how we administer networks in terms …

Network slicing has been identified as the backbone of the rapidly evolving 5G technology.
However, as its consolidation and standardization progress, there are no literatures that …

Emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) require latency-aware
computation for real-time application processing. In IoT environments, connected things …

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an emerging ecosystem, which aims at converging
telecommunication and IT services, providing a cloud computing platform at the edge of the …

The Cloud computing paradigm has revolutionised the computer science horizon during the
past decade and has enabled the emergence of computing as the fifth utility. It has captured …

Containers emerged as a lightweight alternative to virtual machines (VMs) that offer better
microservice architecture support. The value of the container market is expected to reach 2.7 …

Cloud computing makes extensive use of virtual machines because they permit workloads to
be isolated from one another and for the resource usage to be somewhat controlled. In this …

Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) attracts much attention from the scientific community
due to its scientific, technical, and commercial implications. In particular, the European …

The need for ever-shorter development cycles, continuous delivery, and cost savings in
cloud-based infrastructures led to the rise of containers, which are more flexible than virtual …

Virtualization of operating systems provides a common way to run different services in the
cloud. Recently, the lightweight virtualization technologies claim to offer superior …