5Growth: An end-to-end service platform for automated deployment and management of vertical services over 5G networks

X Li, A Garcia-Saavedra, X Costa-Perez… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces the key innovations of the 5Growth service platform to empower
vertical industries with an AI-driven automated 5G end-to-end slicing solution that allows …

Multi-domain solutions for the deployment of private 5G networks

X Li, C Guimaraes, G Landi, J Brenes… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Private 5G networks have become a popular choice of various vertical industries to build
dedicated and secure wireless networks in industry environments to deploy their services …

Federation of 5G services using distributed ledger technologies

K Antevski, CJ Bernardos - Internet Technology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Federation of services, as a 5G networks concept, aims to provide orchestration of services
across multiple administrative domains. In this paper, we are exploring a solution of applying …

Applying Blockchain consensus mechanisms to Network Service Federation: Analysis and performance evaluation

K Antevski, CJ Bernardos - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Cutting edge (vertical) applications may swiftly saturate service providers' virtualized
infrastructure. In 5G and beyond, service providers seek out for innovative solutions such as …

Dqn dynamic pricing and revenue driven service federation strategy

J Martín-Pérez, K Antevski… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a dynamic pricing and revenue-driven service federation strategy
based on a Deep Q-Network (DQN) to instantly and automatically decide federation across …

Blockchain-based sla management for inter-provider agreements

F Javed, J Mangues-Bafalluy - 2022 IEEE Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With features like immutability and transparency, blockchain and Distributed Ledger
Technologies (DLT) can enable the telco industry to exchange services using smart …

End-to-End Network Service Orchestration in Heterogeneous Domains for Next-Generation Mobile Networks

J Baranda, J Mangues-Bafalluy - NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G marks the beginning of a revolution in the mobile network ecosystem, transitioning to a
network of services to satisfy the demands of new telecom players, the vertical industries …

Enabling the SLA Management of Federated Network Services through Scaling Operations

J Baranda, J Mangues-Bafalluy, L Vettori… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Slices are deployed to continuously fulfill requirements from vertical industries. Thus, the
management of service level agreements (SLAs) is fundamental. Composite network …

Blockchain-based 6g inter-provider agreements: Auction vs. marketplace

F Javed, J Mangues-Bafalluy - GLOBECOM 2022-2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) can create an agreement that
enables stakeholders in the telco world to interact and share services while maintaining …

Multi-provider NFV network service delegation via average reward reinforcement learning

B Bakhshi, J Mangues-Bafalluy, J Baranda - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In multi-provider 5G/6G networks, service delegation enables administrative
domains to federate in provisioning NFV network services. Admission control in selecting the …