Vnf and cnf placement in 5g: Recent advances and future trends

W Attaoui, E Sabir, H Elbiaze… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for the most of mobile network operators …

An in-depth survey on virtualization technologies in 6g integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks

S Ammar, CP Lau, B Shihada - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
6G networks are envisioned to deliver a large diversity of applications and meet stringent
Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Hence, integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial …

ALCoD: An adaptive load-aware approach to load balancing for containers in IoT edge computing

D Jiang, B Zhu, X Liu, S Mumtaz - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Container technologies promise efficient deployment of distributed services, but their
potential is hampered by suboptimal resource utilization and network congestion stemming …

Dynamic channel selection and transmission scheduling for cognitive radio networks

X Zhu, Y Huang, Q Wu, F Zhou, X Ge… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) are expected to be promising techniques for improving the
spectrum efficiency of wireless network utility in the squeezed sub-6-GHz frequency bands …

A reawakening of machine learning application in unmanned aerial vehicle: future research motivation

W Shafik, SM Matinkhah, F Shokoor, L Sharif - EAI Endorsed Transactions …, 2022 - eudl.eu
Abstract Machine learning (ML) entails artificial procedures that improve robotically through
experience and using data. Supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and Reinforcement …

Monkey business: Reinforcement learning meets neighborhood search for virtual network embedding

M Elkael, MA Aba, A Araldo, H Castel-Taleb… - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article, we consider the Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem for 5G networks
slicing. This problem requires to allocate multiple Virtual Networks (VN) on a substrate …

Vnf and container placement: Recent advances and future trends

W Attaoui, E Sabir, H Elbiaze, M Guizani - arxiv preprint arxiv:2204.00178, 2022 - arxiv.org
With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for most mobile network operators. NFV …

Energy Efficient VNF-FG Embedding via Attention-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning

O Houidi, O Soualah, I Houidi… - 2023 19th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing smart mechanisms to facilitate and accelerate service deployment and
management is one of the most challenging aspects for network infrastructure providers …

Optimizing Differentiated SFCs of Slicing Using Virtual/Physical Network Resources for SDN-based Flowing and Steering in B5G/5G Networking

BJ Chang, YT Lin - Computer Networks, 2025 - Elsevier
For differentiating and customizing different types of flows and virtualizing physical
resources of networks and machines, B5G/5G specifies several novel mechanisms …

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with an Attention-based Graph Matching Approach for Multi-Domain VNF-FG Embedding

L Slim, F Bannour - GLOBECOM 2023-2023 IEEE Global …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a generic multi-agent deep reinforcement learning framework for dynamic multi-
domain service provisioning in large-scale networks. We formulate both the assignment of a …