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View article: Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape in Cloud Computing: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions
Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape in Cloud Computing: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions Open
As the adoption of cloud computing accelerates across various sectors, the associated cybersecurity vulnerabilities and risks have become increasingly pronounced. This paper delves into the intricate relationship between cloud computing an…
View article: Toward Sustainable O-RAN Deployment: An In-Depth Analysis of Power Consumption
Toward Sustainable O-RAN Deployment: An In-Depth Analysis of Power Consumption Open
5G delivers limitless mobile broadband capabilities, enabling extensive connectivity for various devices, including smartphones, sensors, and machines. Its most notable feature lies in its ability to facilitate instantaneous and highly rel…
View article: A Multi-Tenant System for 5/6G Testbed as-a-Service
A Multi-Tenant System for 5/6G Testbed as-a-Service Open
In order to fulfill the stringent requirements and fast advancements of 5G and beyond applications, it is inevitable to develop research/industrial testbeds to examine the different proposed innovative features of 5G and beyond. In this pa…
View article: Machine-Learning-Based 5G Network Function Scaling via Black- and White-Box KPIs
Machine-Learning-Based 5G Network Function Scaling via Black- and White-Box KPIs Open
The diffusion of the Fifth-Generation (5G) of mobile radio networks will be the main driver in the digital transformation towards a new hyper-connected society. In order to satisfy the stringent demands of 5G-ready applications over the li…
View article: Analyzing the PMachine-Learning-Based 5G Network Function Scaling via Black- and White-Box KPIsower Consumption in Cloud-Native 5/6G Ecosystems
Analyzing the PMachine-Learning-Based 5G Network Function Scaling via Black- and White-Box KPIsower Consumption in Cloud-Native 5/6G Ecosystems Open
The diffusion of the Fifth-Generation (5G) of mobile radio networks will be the main driver in the digital transformation towards a new hyper-connected society. In order to satisfy the stringent demands of 5G-ready applications over the li…
View article: Intent-Driven Distributed Applications Management Over Compute and Network Resources in the Computing Continuum
Intent-Driven Distributed Applications Management Over Compute and Network Resources in the Computing Continuum Open
Intent-driven orchestration enables organizations to achieve greater automation, integration, and intelligence of their compute and network resources by defining their objectives and policies in a more abstract and holistic way, while lett…
View article: 6G Enablers for Zero-Carbon Network Slices and Vertical Edge Services
6G Enablers for Zero-Carbon Network Slices and Vertical Edge Services Open
6G of radio mobile networks should become an essential enabler for any vertical sector to meet sustainable growth targets of both the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda and the European Green Deal. 6G might lead to the dematerialization of (m…
View article: A Multi-Tenant System for 5/6G Testbed as-a-Service
A Multi-Tenant System for 5/6G Testbed as-a-Service Open
In order to fulfill the stringent requirements and fast advancements of 5G and beyond applications, it is inevitable to develop research/industrial testbeds to examine the different proposed innovative features of 5G and beyond. In this pa…
View article: Increasing safety levels in human-machine interaction by beyond-5G wireless redundancy
Increasing safety levels in human-machine interaction by beyond-5G wireless redundancy Open
Factory automation in the context of Industry 4.0/5.0 requires safety levels to satisfy more stringent and tight limits than those available so far. This goal is further challenged by the extension to the wireless environment of industrial…
View article: Multi-site Resource Allocation in a QoS-Aware 5G Infrastructure
Multi-site Resource Allocation in a QoS-Aware 5G Infrastructure Open
Network softwarization has paved the way for 5G technologies, and a wide-range of (radically new) verticals. As the telecommunications infrastructure evolves into a sort of distributed datacenter, multiple tenants such as vertical industri…
View article: Trading off Power Consumption and Delay in the Execution of Network Functions by Dynamic Activation of Processing Units
Trading off Power Consumption and Delay in the Execution of Network Functions by Dynamic Activation of Processing Units Open
Beside increasing flexibility and programmability, the current network “softwarization” trend is believed to be beneficial also in respect of energy efficiency, owing to the consolidation of resources made possible by virtualized networkin…
View article: A Zero-Touch as-a-Service Active Monitoring Framework for Virtualized Network Environments
A Zero-Touch as-a-Service Active Monitoring Framework for Virtualized Network Environments Open
In order to fulfill the stringent requirements of 5G applications, measuring the performance of the VNFs composing the network slices is crucial to identify potential bottlenecks of the networks. However, since the VNF behavior is time var…
View article: A Digital Twin for the 5G Era: the SPIDER Cyber Range
A Digital Twin for the 5G Era: the SPIDER Cyber Range Open
Service providers, 5G network operators and, more generally, vertical industries face today a dangerous shortage of highly skilled cybersecurity experts. Along with the escalation and growing sophistication of cyber-attacks, 5G networks re…
View article: Multi-Site Resource Allocation in a QoS-Aware 5G Infrastructure
Multi-Site Resource Allocation in a QoS-Aware 5G Infrastructure Open
Network softwarization has paved the way for 5G technologies, and a wide-range of (radically new) verticals. As the telecommunications infrastructure evolves into a sort of distributed datacenter, multiple tenants such as vertical industri…
View article: AI-powered Infrastructures for Intelligence and Automation in Beyond-5G Systems
AI-powered Infrastructures for Intelligence and Automation in Beyond-5G Systems Open
In this paper, a vision for beyond-5G systems is proposed where automation, intelligence and data privacy in cloudnative infrastructures are in focus. Exploiting the convergence of cloud technologies at the edge and mobile communication ne…
View article: Evaluating Urban Network Activity Hotspots through Granular Cluster Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data
Evaluating Urban Network Activity Hotspots through Granular Cluster Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data Open
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is expected to play an essential role in enabling 5G (and beyond) technologies and services. This has driven numerous micro-datacenter (μDC) deployment studies in the literature, with a common goal of addr…
View article: Evaluating Urban Network Activity Hotspots through Granular Cluster Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data
Evaluating Urban Network Activity Hotspots through Granular Cluster Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data Open
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is expected to play an essential role in enabling 5G (and beyond) technologies and services. This has driven numerous micro-datacenter (μDC) deployment studies in the literature, with a common goal of addr…
View article: From Cloud-Native to 5G-Ready Vertical Applications: An Industry 4.0 Use Case
From Cloud-Native to 5G-Ready Vertical Applications: An Industry 4.0 Use Case Open
This paper aims to showcase the ability of the MATILDA Platform to enable vertical applications fully utilizing the capabilities offered by the fifth generation of mobile networks (5G). Although 5G, powered by network slicing and edge comp…
View article: ANNs Going Beyond Time Series Forecasting: An Urban Network Perspective
ANNs Going Beyond Time Series Forecasting: An Urban Network Perspective Open
5G is expected to bring forth disruptive indus-trial-societal transformation by enabling a broad catalog of (radically new, highly heterogeneous) applications and services. This scenario has called for zero-touch network and service manage…
View article: Enabling Edge Computing Deployment in 4G and Beyond
Enabling Edge Computing Deployment in 4G and Beyond Open
While the integration of fourth-generation (4G) networks with Edge Computing technologies would anticipate the improvements foreseen by the coming of 5G, as well as smoothen the transition to the new technology, 4G does not natively suppor…
View article: Validation of IaaS-based Technologies for 5G-Ready Applications Deployment
Validation of IaaS-based Technologies for 5G-Ready Applications Deployment Open
In an attempt to assess the suitability of current Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies for fulfilling 5Gready applications requirements, this paper has exploited the CNIT S2N testbed to perform a validation over a complete 5G e…
View article: Debunking the "Green" NFV Myth: An Assessment of the Virtualization Sustainability in Radio Access Networks
Debunking the "Green" NFV Myth: An Assessment of the Virtualization Sustainability in Radio Access Networks Open
Since the adoption of virtualization paradigms is seen as a viable way to fulfil the requirements of next-generation applications in a sustainable way, this paper examines the virtualization of the Radio Access Network (RAN), focusing on t…
View article: Debunking the "Green" NFV Myth: An Assessment of the Virtualization Sustainability in Radio Access Networks
Debunking the "Green" NFV Myth: An Assessment of the Virtualization Sustainability in Radio Access Networks Open
Since the adoption of virtualization paradigms is seen as a viable way to fulfil the requirements of next-generation applications in a sustainable way, this paper examines the virtualization of the Radio Access Network (RAN), focusing on t…
View article: Validation of IaaS-based Technologies for 5G-Ready Applications Deployment
Validation of IaaS-based Technologies for 5G-Ready Applications Deployment Open
In an attempt to assess the suitability of current Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies for fulfilling 5G-ready applications requirements, this paper has exploited the CNIT S2N testbed to perform a validation over a complete 5G …
View article: Enabling Edge Computing Deployment in 4G and Beyond
Enabling Edge Computing Deployment in 4G and Beyond Open
While the integration of fourth-generation (4G) networks with Edge Computing technologies would anticipate the improvements foreseen by the coming of 5G, as well as smoothen the transition to the new technology, 4G does not natively suppor…
View article: Guest Editorial Leveraging Machine Learning in SDN/NFV-Based Networks
Guest Editorial Leveraging Machine Learning in SDN/NFV-Based Networks Open
Akey trend of current network evolution is in the direction of network softwarization and virtualization. These technological paradigms aim to enable a network to be programmable in a way that makes the network more flexible, scalable, and…
View article: A Model-Based Approach Towards Real-Time Analytics in NFV Infrastructures
A Model-Based Approach Towards Real-Time Analytics in NFV Infrastructures Open
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has recently gained much popularity in the research scene for the flexibility and programmability that it will bring with the software implementation of network functions on commercial off-the-shelf (…
View article: Definition and Evaluation of Latency in 5G: A Framework Approach
Definition and Evaluation of Latency in 5G: A Framework Approach Open
Latency as a key performance indicator (KPI) of 5G communication has attracted a significant amount of efforts from both industry and academia to provide the enhanced technology solution to meet the requirement of low latency from the dive…
View article: Mobile Edge Vertical Computing over 5G Network Sliced Infrastructures: An Insight into Integration Approaches
Mobile Edge Vertical Computing over 5G Network Sliced Infrastructures: An Insight into Integration Approaches Open
5G is designed to leverage on network soft-warization technologies, like NEV and MEC, to expose customized network instances and resources at the edge of the infrastructure to vertical stakeholders. Most of the 5G success will depend on th…