Network management faces the interrelated challenges of increasing network complexity,
meeting sophisticated business requirements, and being subject to human oversight. Self …

Telecommunications systems management represents a technical challenge with profound
economic implications. Many different sources of information must be integrated, and …

The TOUCAN project proposed an ontology for telecommunication networks with hybrid
technologies–the TOUCAN Ontology (ToCo), available at http://purl. org/toco/, as well as a …

Policies in network function virtualization (NFV) systems may conflict when they have
different restrictions on the shared resources. In this context, it is of paramount importance to …

Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a programmable approach for
provisioning and managing network resources by defining a clear separation between the …

The Software Defined Network paradigm deviates from traditional networks by logically
centralising and physically separating the control plane from the data plane. In this work, we …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is used widely in Data Center Networks (DCNs) to
facilitate the automated configuration of network devices required to provide cloud services …

Intent-based networking (IBN) has emerged as a promising paradigm to improve
management automation in network infrastructures. At the heart of IBN systems lies the …

In today's fast-evolving technological landscape, network management faces the interrelated
challenges of increasing network complexity, sophisticated business requirements, and …

There has been robust growth in the number of data centres globally, and in the size of the
largest data centres over the last couple of decades. Annual global data centre traffic …