The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

The idea of programmable networks has recently re-gained considerable momentum due to
the emergence of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. SDN, often referred to …

Diverse proprietary network appliances increase both the capital and operational expense
of service providers, meanwhile causing problems of network ossification. Network function …

Software-defined network (SDN) has become one of the most important architectures for the
management of largescale complex networks, which may require repolicing or …

Since wireless network virtualization enables abstraction and sharing of infrastructure and
radio spectrum resources, the overall expenses of wireless network deployment and …

The emergence of two new technologies, namely, software defined networking (SDN) and
network function virtualization (NFV), have radically changed the development of network …

The highly demanding Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia applications pose increased
challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for assuring a reasonable Quality of …

Driven by the need to cope with exponentially growing mobile data traffic and to support new
traffic types from massive numbers of machine-type devices, academia and industry are …

Although the radio access network (RAN) part of mobile networks offers a significant
opportunity for benefiting from the use of SDN ideas, this opportunity is largely untapped due …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is considered promising to simplify network
management and enable research innovations based on the decomposition of the control …