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 …

The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently advanced from an experimental technology to what
will become the backbone of future customer value for both product and service sector …

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 …

Trusted third parties (TTPs) are frequently used for serving as an authority to issue and verify
transactions in applications. Although the TTP-based paradigm provides customers with …

The integration of communications with different scales, diverse radio access technologies,
and various network resources renders next-generation wireless networks (NGWNs) highly …

The development of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks is gaining momentum to
connect almost all aspects of life through the network with much higher speed, very low …

5G is envisioned to be a multi-service network supporting a wide range of verticals with a
diverse set of performance and service requirements. Slicing a single physical network into …

For many applications deployed in manufacturing networks, communication latency has
been a significant barrier. Despite the constant development of improved communication …

Abstract The Internet of Things needs for computing power and storage are expected to
remain on the rise in the next decade. Consequently, the amount of data generated by …