SliceBlock: context-aware authentication handover and secure network slicing using DAG-blockchain in edge-assisted SDN/NFV-6G environment

IH Abdulqadder, S Zhou - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing in a 6G environment is an important research area in the current years.
However, satisfying the demands of network slice requests is a challenging task. Energy …

Resource Management From Single-domain 5G to End-to-End 6G Network Slicing: A Survey

S Ebrahimi, F Bouali, OCL Haas - … Communications Surveys & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Slicing (NS) is one of the pillars of the fifth/sixth generation (5G/6G) of mobile
networks. It provides the means for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to leverage physical …

Coordinated slicing and admission control using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

M Sulaiman, A Moayyedi, M Ahmadi… - … on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) facilitate new forms of flexible resource
management as dynamic RAN function splitting and placement. Virtualized RAN functions …

Mapping the VNFs and VLs of a RAN slice onto intelligent PoPs in beyond 5G mobile networks

MA Habibi, FZ Yousaf… - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mapping of a virtual network service onto a physical network infrastructure is a
challenging task due to the joint allocation of virtual resources across nodes and links, the …

Edge-enhanced graph neural network for DU-CU placement and lightpath provision in X-Haul networks

R Wang, J Zhang, Z Gu, S Yan, Y Xiao… - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The emerging mobile services have imposed several new challenges on the radio access
network (RAN), which stimulates its evolution from cloud-RAN to next-generation RAN (NG …

Deterministic latency/jitter-aware service function chaining over beyond 5G edge fabric

H Yu, T Taleb, J Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deterministic Networking (DetNet) has recently attracted much attention. It aims at studying
the deterministic bounded latency and low latency variation for time-sensitive applications …

Cybersecurity study in 5g network slicing technology: A systematic mapping review

J Cáceres-Hidalgo… - 2021 IEEE Fifth Ecuador …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies are characterized by high-speed transmission
and greater capacity for millions of devices interconnected with low latency. However …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for slicing and admission control in 5G C-RAN

M Sulaiman, A Moayyedi… - NOMS 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) facilitate new forms of flexible resource
management as dynamic RAN function splitting and placement. Virtualized RAN functions …

Placement of 5G RAN slices in multi-tier O-RAN 5G networks with flexible functional splits

E Sarikaya, E Onur - 2021 17th International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The network slicing concept has gained much attention with the development of software-
defined network and network function virtualization technologies, enabling logically isolated …

Energy-efficient DU-CU deployment and lightpath provisioning for service-oriented 5G metro access/aggregation networks

Y Xiao, J Zhang, Y Ji - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - opg.optica.org
To accommodate ever-growing mobile data and heterogeneous 5G services, considerable
challenges have emerged to stimulate new design principles on radio access networks …