Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

The technological advancements in the ubiquitous IoT era and the ever-growing desire of
communities to enforce smart cities with security and safety of user data as their priority, mini …

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

Network function virtualization (NFV) has been considered as a promising technology for
future Internet to increase the network flexibility, accelerate the service innovation, and …

The adoption of the virtualization paradigm in both computing and networking domains
portends a landscape of heterogeneous service capabilities and resources pervasively …

The network function virtualization (NFV) paradigm has gained increasing interest in both
academia and industry as it promises scalable and flexible network management and …

In the last decade, the differences in the information communication technology (ICT)
infrastructures between urban and rural areas have registered a tremendous increase. ICT …

Softwarization of networks allows simplifying deployment, configuration, and management of
network functions. The driving force toward this evolution is represented by software defined …

Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
changed radically the way 5G networks will be deployed and services will be delivered to …

Emerging technologies such as Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) promise to address cost reduction and flexibility in network operation …