The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has introduced the paradigm
of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) to enable efficient and fast data processing in …

Security has become the primary concern in many telecommunications industries today as
risks can have high consequences. Especially, as the core and enable technologies will be …

The explosive rise of Internet of Things (IoT) systems have notably increased the potential
attack surfaces for cybercriminals. Accounting for the features and constraints of IoT devices …

Network functions virtualization (NFV), along with software-defined networking (SDN), drives
a new change in networking infrastructure with respect to designing, deploying, and …

Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm and it has attracted
considerable attention from both the industry and academia because of its potential to …

The map** of a virtual network service onto a physical network infrastructure is a
challenging task due to the joint allocation of virtual resources across nodes and links, the …

Virtualization methods and techniques play an important role in the development of cloud
infrastructures and their services. They enable the decoupling of virtualized resources from …

The integration of network function visualization (NFV) and service function chaining (SFC)
adds intelligence to the core of the network. The programmability of the network core …

Abstract 5G, the current generation of communication networks is based on the standards
defined by 3GPP and other organizations (ETSI, ENISA, NGMN). These standards define …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has been widely recognized as an effective way to
implement and consolidate hardware-based network functions by using software-based …