The emergence of two new technologies, namely, software defined networking (SDN) and
network function virtualization (NFV), have radically changed the development of network …

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 use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil
application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote …

In cellular networks, the locations of the RAN elements are determined mainly based on the
long-term traffic behavior. However, when the random and hard-to-predict spatio-temporal …

With the emergence of 5G mobile communication systems and software defined networks,
not only could the performance of vehicular networks be improved, but also new …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), a new concept that emerged about a year ago, integrating
the IT and the Telecom worlds will have a great impact on the openness of the Telecom …

The UAV or mini-drones equipped with sensors are becoming increasingly popular for
various commercial, industrial, and public-safety applications. However, drones with …

As a promising paradigm for the fifth generation wireless communication (5G) system, the
fog radio access network (F-RAN) has been proposed as an advanced socially aware …

This paper is concerned with providing radio access network (RAN) elements (supply) for
flash crowd traffic demands. The concept of multi-tier cells [heterogeneous networks …

For many, this is no longer a valid question and the case is considered settled with software
defined networking/network function virtualization (SDN/NFV) providing the inevitable …