The current power grid is no longer a feasible solution due to ever-increasing user demand
of electricity, old infrastructure, and reliability issues and thus require transformation to a …

The promise behind the effective deployment of 5G networks is an architecture able to
provide flexibility, reconfigurability and programmability in order to support, with fine …

The 5G mobile network is expected to meet the diverse demands from multiple types of
business services. At the same time, some of the 5G use cases come with hard, and often …

Massive advancements in computing and communication technologies have enabled the
ubiquitous presence of interconnected computing devices in all aspects of modern life …

Software defined networking (SDN) promises unprecedented flexibility and ease of network
operations. While flexibility is an important factor when leveraging advantages of a new …

Today, management and orchestration are considered prime components of the new
network management layer. Multi-domain orchestration has helped in simplifying …

Industrial networks require real-time guarantees for the flows they carry. That is, flows have
hard end-to-end delay requirements that have to be deterministically guaranteed. While …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) provides a major contribution to the innovation of smart
manufacturing and industrial automation. Due to IoT, network devices and intelligent …

Splitting functionalities of radio access network (RAN) and cloudification of such
functionalities is considered as one of the key enablers of the next generation mobile and …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology has emerged as a promising
solution to guarantee high reliability in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) ecosystem …