Nowadays, technology is such an integral part of our lives that the dependency on its
benefits is growing faster than ever. With the arrival of the paradigms of smart cities and the …

Network function virtualization (NFV) sits firmly on the networking evolutionary path. By
migrating network functions from dedicated devices to general purpose computing platforms …

5G network slicing allows partitioning of network resources to meet stringent end-to-end
service requirements across multiple network segments, from access to transport. These …

Internet applications are deployed on the same network infrastructure, yet they have diverse
performance and functional requirements. The Internet was not originally designed to …

Network virtualization is enabling infrastructure providers (InPs) to offer new services to
service providers (SPs). InPs are usually bound by service level agreements to ensure …

A key challenge in network virtualization is to efficiently map a virtual network (VN) on a
substrate network (SN), while accounting for possible substrate failures. This is known as the …

Network function virtualization enables the “softwarization” of network functions, which are
implemented on virtual machines hosted on commercial off-the-shelf servers. Both the …

Network Function Visualization (NFV) enables the complete decoupling of Network
Functions (NFs)(eg, firewall, intrusion detection, routing, etc.) from physical middleboxes …

In 5G networks, slicing allows partitioning of network resources to meet stringent end-to-end
service requirements across multiple network segments, from access to transport. These …

The strong uptake of cloud computing has led to an important increase of mission-critical
applications being placed on cloud environments. Those applications often require high …