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View article: QoS Aware Slice Resource Management Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in IoT Networks
QoS Aware Slice Resource Management Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in IoT Networks Open
WiFi, a widely used technology in IoT, provides QoS through IEEE 802.11e EDCA Access Categories (AC) which have fixed configuration with strict priorities. This makes WiFi QoS unsuitable to the rising QoS diversity, changing wireless condi…
View article: Delay-Sensitive Wireless Content Delivery: An Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Approach
Delay-Sensitive Wireless Content Delivery: An Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Approach Open
The COVID-19 emergency has made the consumption of multimedia content skyrocket in all contexts, including education. Many universities leverage hybrid learning models, in which students join a real-time video session via Wi-Fi from severa…
View article: AI@EDGE: A Secure and Reusable Artificial Intelligence Platform for Edge Computing
AI@EDGE: A Secure and Reusable Artificial Intelligence Platform for Edge Computing Open
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a major innovative force and a major pillar in the fourth industrial revolution. This trend has been acknowledged by the European Commission, who has pointed out how high-performance, intelligent, an…
View article: Function Placement and Acceleration for In-Network Federated Learning Services
Function Placement and Acceleration for In-Network Federated Learning Services Open
Edge intelligence combined with federated learning is considered as a way to distributed learning and inference tasks in a scalable way, by analyzing data close to where it is generated, unlike traditional cloud computing where data is off…
View article: Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Section on Smart Management of Future Softwarized Networks
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Section on Smart Management of Future Softwarized Networks Open
Network softwarization is one of the key enablers of the future Internet evolution, also supporting the road from the fifth generation (5G) to the next-generation communication systems, namely 6G, with their main objective of bringing hype…
View article: Machine Learning at the Mobile Edge: The Case of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP (DASH)
Machine Learning at the Mobile Edge: The Case of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP (DASH) Open
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is a standard for delivering video in segments and adapting each segment's bitrate (quality), to adjust to changing and limited network bandwidth. We study segment prefetching, informed by machin…
View article: Zero Touch Management: A Survey of Network Automation Solutions for 5G and 6G Networks
Zero Touch Management: A Survey of Network Automation Solutions for 5G and 6G Networks Open
Mobile networks are facing an unprecedented demand for high-speed connectivity originating from novel mobile applications and services and, in general, from the adoption curve of mobile devices. However, coping with the service requirement…
View article: ONIX: Open Radio Network Information eXchange
ONIX: Open Radio Network Information eXchange Open
While video-on-demand still takes up the lion's share of Internet traffic, we are witnessing a significant increase in the adoption of mobile applications defined by tight bit rate and latency requirements (e.g., augmented/virtual reality)…
View article: Safety-Related Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility Services: Interplay Between Functional and Security Requirements
Safety-Related Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility Services: Interplay Between Functional and Security Requirements Open
Together with the electrification of vehicles, the provision of cooperative, connected, and automated mobility (CCAM) services is a prominent recent trend in the automotive sector. Upcoming car models will be able to exchange messages betw…
View article: AI@EDGE: A Secure and Reusable Artificial Intelligence Platform for Edge Computing
AI@EDGE: A Secure and Reusable Artificial Intelligence Platform for Edge Computing Open
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a major innovative force and a major pillar in the fourth industrial revolution. This trend has been acknowledged by the European Commission, who has pointed out how high-performance, intelligent, an…
View article: AI-Empowered Software-Defined WLANs
AI-Empowered Software-Defined WLANs Open
The complexity of wireless and mobile networks is growing at an unprecedented pace. This trend is proving current network control and management techniques based on analytical models and simulations to be impractical, especially if combine…
View article: Smart Contracts in the 5G Roaming Architecture: The Fusion of Blockchain with 5G Networks
Smart Contracts in the 5G Roaming Architecture: The Fusion of Blockchain with 5G Networks Open
<p>The rollout of fifth generation (5G) cellular network technology has generated a new surge of interest in the potential of blockchain to automate various use cases involving cellular networks. 5G is indeed expected to offer new ma…
View article: Centralized and Federated Learning for Predictive VNF Autoscaling in Multi-Domain 5G Networks and Beyond
Centralized and Federated Learning for Predictive VNF Autoscaling in Multi-Domain 5G Networks and Beyond Open
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) are two technologies expected to play a vital role in 5G and beyond networks. However, adequate mechanisms are required to meet the dynamically changing network se…
View article: ML-Driven DASH Content Pre-Fetching in MEC-Enabled Mobile Networks
ML-Driven DASH Content Pre-Fetching in MEC-Enabled Mobile Networks Open
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View article: LoMM: a Monitoring and Management Platform for LoRaWAN Experimentation
LoMM: a Monitoring and Management Platform for LoRaWAN Experimentation Open
Year after year, Long-Range (LoRa) is globally becoming recognized as a low-power wide-area network technology that enables cheap and easy-to-setup deployments of Internet of things (IoT) networks. Being its stack open, lots of researchers…
View article: LightEdge: Mapping the Evolution of Multi-Access Edge Computing in Cellular Networks
LightEdge: Mapping the Evolution of Multi-Access Edge Computing in Cellular Networks Open
The MEC paradigm calls for a distribution of computational capacity at the network's edges. While MEC will play a key role in future 5G deployments, it will take some time until the existing 4G networks evolve into a full 5G system. A chal…
View article: aiOS: An Intelligence Layer for SD-WLANs
aiOS: An Intelligence Layer for SD-WLANs Open
Software-Defined Networking promises to deliver a more manageable network whose behaviour could be easily changed using applications written in high-level declarative languages running on top of a logically centralized control plane result…
View article: Software-Defined Vehicular Networking: Opportunities and Challenges
Software-Defined Vehicular Networking: Opportunities and Challenges Open
Over the last ten years, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have received significant attention from the academic and industrial communities alike. VANETs are a particular type of mobile ad hoc network originally designed for the purpose o…
View article: Enabling Computation Offloading for Autonomous and Assisted Driving in 5G Networks
Enabling Computation Offloading for Autonomous and Assisted Driving in 5G Networks Open
Connected and automated vehicles currently leverage on-board resources to implement autonomous and assisted driving operations. Such functionalities, which are characterized by tight latency demands, require significant processing resource…
View article: SDN@Play: Software-Defined Multicasting in Enterprise WLANs
SDN@Play: Software-Defined Multicasting in Enterprise WLANs Open
Concurrent distribution of multimedia streams to a high number of end users through a wireless network is extremely popular nowadays. Nevertheless, multicast traffic orchestration over traditional Wi-Fi networks is still an important probl…
View article: Design and Experimental Validation of a Software-Defined Radio Access Network Testbed with Slicing Support
Design and Experimental Validation of a Software-Defined Radio Access Network Testbed with Slicing Support Open
Network slicing is a fundamental feature of 5G systems to partition a single network into a number of segregated logical networks, each optimized for a particular type of service or dedicated to a particular customer or application. The re…
View article: Design and Experimental Validation of a Software-Defined Radio Access Network Testbed with Slicing Support
Design and Experimental Validation of a Software-Defined Radio Access Network Testbed with Slicing Support Open
Network slicing is a fundamental feature of 5G systems to partition a single network into a number of segregated logical networks, each optimized for a particular type of service, or dedicated to a particular customer or application. The r…
View article: Addressing Bitrate and Latency Requirements for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Addressing Bitrate and Latency Requirements for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Open
Autonomous and connected vehicles are becoming the next piece of the 5G connectivity puzzle. Dealing with a diversified set of use cases, ranging from manoeuvrer negotiation to infotainment, autonomous and connected vehicles call for a rad…
View article: On-Demand Network Slicing using SDN/NFV-enabled Satellite Ground Segment Systems
On-Demand Network Slicing using SDN/NFV-enabled Satellite Ground Segment Systems Open
This paper proposes an architecture framework for the realization of on-demand satellite network slicing that is built on the introduction of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies. In this…