Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that is receiving significant
attention in both academia and the industry. NFV paradigm proposes to decouple Network …

Network function virtualization (NFV) sits firmly on the networking evolutionary path. By
migrating network functions from dedicated devices to general purpose computing platforms …

This paper proposes an architecture framework for the realization of on-demand satellite
network slicing that is built on the introduction of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is emerging as one of the most innovative concepts in
the networking landscape. By migrating network functions from dedicated mid-dleboxes to …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has attracted a lot of attention recently both among
researchers and network devices providers. By decoupling network functions from dedicated …

We show that the ordering used in the sorting stage of the Burrows-Wheeler transform, an
aspect hitherto ignored, can have a significant impact on the size of the compressed data …

Due to the soaring popularity of cloud-based services over the last years, the size and the
complexity of cloud environments has been growing quickly. In the context of cloud systems …

The advent of both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way to
conceive distributed systems. Nowadays, we can talk about IoT Cloud to indicate a new type …

Mobile network operators are currently facing a tremendous increase in the level of data
traffic. Although cell size reduction is one of the most common ways used to accommodate …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is set to disrupt the current networking ecosystem by
turning vertically-integrated middleboxes into software modules running on general purpose …