Software defined networking allows network providers to share their physical network (PN)
among multiple tenants by means of network slicing, where several virtual networks (VNs) …

With the boom of Internet of Things (IoT), an increasing amount of data from IoT applications
is moved to geo-distributed data centers (DCs) for data analysis. Massive compute …

In elastic optical inter-datacenter networks, multiple software-defined networking (SDN)
controllers have been used to improve scalability and reliability. The static controller …

The traffic between geographically distributed data centers (DCs) becomes bandwidth
hungry. Since the optical interconnection has a high capacity, the optical data center …

Network virtualization is meant to improve the efficiency of network infrastructure by sharing
a physical substrate network among multiple virtual networks. Virtual network embedding …

Network virtualization is an enabling technology of running multiple virtual networks on a
shared substrate network. It aims to deal with the ossification of current network architecture …

ISP networks have become a critical infrastructure in our society. Traffic in these networks is
growing and is increasingly dominated by a small number of large CDNs connecting at …

An important challenge in network virtualization is the process of assigning physical
resources to virtual network requests, where virtual node resources represent the demands …

5G transport networks will support dynamic services with diverse requirements through
network slicing. Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) facilitate transport network slicing by …

Network virtualization can improve the utilization of a physical network by enabling the
coexistence of multiple virtual networks supporting different services. For an elastic optical …