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In multi-provider 5G/6G networks, service delegation enables administrative domains to federate in provisioning NFV network services. Admission control is fundamental in selecting the appropriate deployment domain to maximize average profit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Bahador Bakhshi , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy , Jorge Baranda

With the ever growing diversity of devices and applications that will be connected to 5G networks, flexible and agile service orchestration with acknowledged QoE that satisfies end-user's functional and QoS requirements is necessary. SDN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Xi Chen , Zonghang Li , Yupeng Zhang , Ruiming Long , Hongfang Yu , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims to simplify deployment of network services by running Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) on commercial off-the-shelf servers. Service deployment involves placement of VNFs and in-sequence routing of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Abhishek Gupta , Brigitte Jaumard , Massimo Tornatore , Biswanath Mukherjee

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) can cost-efficiently provide network services by running different virtual network functions (VNFs) at different virtual machines (VMs) in a correct order. This can result in strong couplings between…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Xiaojing Chen , Wei Ni , Tianyi Chen , Iain B. Collings , Xin Wang , Ren Ping Liu , Georgios B. Giannakis

This work proposes a new algorithm to mitigate model generalization loss in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) operating under client reliability constraints within 5G Core Networks (CNs). Recently studied and endorsed by 3GPP, VFL enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mohamad Mestoukirdi , Mourad Khanfouci

With the advent of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Physical Network Functions (PNFs) are gradually being replaced by Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) that are hosted on general purpose servers. Depending on the call flows for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Gamal Sallam , Gagan R. Gupta , Bin Li , Bo Ji

In this paper, a joint task, spectrum, and transmit power allocation problem is investigated for a wireless network in which the base stations (BSs) are equipped with mobile edge computing (MEC) servers to jointly provide computational and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Xuanlin Liu , Changchuan Yin , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Network functions (e.g., firewalls, load balancers, etc.) have been traditionally provided through proprietary hardware appliances. Often, hardware appliances need to be hardwired back to back to form a service chain providing chained…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Abhishek Gupta , M. Farhan Habib , Uttam Mandal , Pulak Chowdhury , Massimo Tornatore , Biswanath Mukherjee

Cloud computing, despite its advantages in scalability, may not always fully satisfy the low-latency demands of emerging latency-sensitive pervasive applications. The cloud-edge continuum addresses this by integrating the responsiveness of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xu Bai , Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam , Rajkumar Buyya , Adel N. Toosi

Clustered federated Multitask learning is introduced as an efficient technique when data is unbalanced and distributed amongst clients in a non-independent and identically distributed manner. While a similarity metric can provide client…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Abegaz Mohammed , Aiman Erbad , Octavia A. Dobre

In the framework of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the reliability of Service Function Chain (SFC), -- an end-to-end service is presented by a chain of virtual network functions (VNFs), is a complex function of placement,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Anna Engelmann , Admela Jukan

Mobile edge computing seeks to provide resources to different delay-sensitive applications. However, allocating the limited edge resources to a number of applications is a challenging problem. To alleviate the resource scarcity problem, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Faheem Zafari , Jian Li , Kin K Leung , Don Towsley , Ananthram Swami

Machine learning (ML) tasks are one of the major workloads in today's edge computing networks. Existing edge-cloud schedulers allocate the requested amounts of resources to each task, falling short of best utilizing the limited edge…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yihong Li , Xiaoxi Zhang , Tianyu Zeng , Jingpu Duan , Chuan Wu , Di Wu , Xu Chen

Network slicing (NS) and multi-access edge computing (MEC) are new paradigms which play key roles in 5G and beyond networks. NS allows network operators (NOs) to divide the available network resources into multiple logical NSs for providing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Prabhu Kaliyammal Thiruvasagam , Abhishek Chakraborty , C Siva Ram Murthy

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has already shown the potential in enabling mobile devices to bear the computation-intensive applications by offloading some tasks to a nearby access point (AP) integrated with a MEC server (MES). However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Joshua Bassey , Xiangfang Li , Timothy Kroecker , Lijun Qian

The space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) is dynamic and flexible, which can support transmitting data in environments lacking ground communication facilities. However, the nodes of SAGIN are heterogeneous and it is intractable to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yilu Cao , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Yanting Wang , Jiahao You , Qihui Wu

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is commonly recognized as a key supporting technology for the emerging 5G systems. When deployed in fully virtualized networks, i.e., following the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, it will…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Miltiades C. Filippou , Dario Sabella , Vincenzo Riccobene

With an ever increasing demand for the delivery of internet video service, the service providers are facing a huge challenge to deliver ultra-HD (2k/4k) video at sub-second latency. The multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform actually…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Suvadip Batabyal

Network function virtualization (NFV) is an emerging design paradigm that replaces physical middlebox devices with software modules running on general purpose commodity servers. While gradually transitioning to NFV, Internet service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Gamal Sallam , Zizhan Zheng , Bo Ji

The mean-field framework has been used to find approximate solutions to problems involving very large populations of symmetric, anonymous agents, which may be intractable by other methods. The cooperative mean-field control (MFC) problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate