Pacing the way toward 5G has lead researchers and industry in the direction of centralized
processing known from Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN). In C-RAN research, a …

Software defined networking (SDN) decouples the control plane from the data plane of
forwarding devices. This separation provides several benefits, including the simplification of …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

Quality of Service (QoS) refers to techniques that function on a network to dependably
execute high-priority applications and traffic reliably run high-priority applications and traffic …

Network slicing is a core technology to enable new services and solutions in 5G and
upcoming 6G communications. However, many issues arise when applying network slicing …

Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) offers a cost-efficient solution for running the 5G
RAN as a virtualized network function (VNF) on commodity hardware. The vRAN is more …

The fifth-generation mobile evolution introduces Next-Generation Radio Access Networks
(NG-RAN), splitting the RAN protocol stack into the eight disaggregated options combined …

The virtualization of radio access networks (vRAN) is the last milestone in the NFV
revolution. However, the complex dependencies between computing and radio resources …

The combination of network softwarization with network slicing enables the provisioning of
very diverse services over the same network infrastructure. However, it also creates a …

Virtualized radio access network (vRAN) architectures and multiple-access edge computing
(MEC) systems constitute two key solutions for the emerging Tactile Internet applications …