Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are new
paradigms in the move towards open software and network hardware. While NFV aims to …

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising technology to push the cloud
frontier to the network edge, provisioning network services in proximity of mobile users …

The traditional hardware-based physical network functions are increasingly being replaced
with software-only Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). A systematic review on the VNF …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reforms the cloud paradigm by bringing unprecedented
computing capacity to the vicinity of end users at the mobile network edge. This provides …

Radio Access Networks (RAN) tends to be more distributed in the 5G and beyond, in order
to provide low latency and flexible on-demanding services. In this paper, Blockchain …

Traditional networks employ expensive dedicated hardware devices as middleboxes to
implement Service Function Chains of user requests by steering data traffic along …

Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that implements
Virtual Network Function (VNF) with software on general servers. Traffic needs to go through …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reforms the cloud paradigm by bringing unprecedented
computing capacity to the vicinity of mobile users at the mobile network edge. This provides …

To support content-oriented services, the routers in Information Centric Networks (ICN) have
to provide packet processing functions that are more complex with respect to IP standards …

One of the major challenges for nano-network is the forfeit of communication protocols to
exploit the potential communication between nano-machines forming fully operational nano …