Cloud computing built on virtualization technologies can provide Internet service providers
(SPs) with elastic virtualized node and link resources. SPs can outsource their virtualized …

With the aim of providing novel services and applications having high data rate and low
latency, the 5G networks are designed. Thus, it is essential to manage and schedule the …

The emerging 5G applications and the connectivity of billions of devices have driven the
investigation of multi-domain heterogeneous converged optical networks. To support …

Three convergent processes are likely to shape the future of the internet beyond-5G: The
convergence of optical and millimeter wave radio networks to boost mobile internet capacity …

In recent years, hybrid fiber-wireless (Fi-Wi) networks that integrate optical network
technology and wireless communication technology have received widespread attention …

Mobile edge computing is popular for providing services with low latency and high privacy. It
becomes more powerful by leveraging the widely deployed Small cell Base Stations (SBS) …

The rise of Industry 4.0 is pushing more machine devices into the connection of the
communication network. Internet of Things (IoT) emerges as an enabling technique to …

In network virtualization environments, with random arrival and departure of virtual network
requests, there exist some resources (ie, link resources and node resources) isolated from …

With the development of information technology, optical access network gradually presents
the characteristics of multi-domain, multi-layer and multi-vendor. The network slicing …

Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) access network is a promising network architecture to provide the
constantly available connections for the collaboration of objects in the Internet of Things …