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Network Virtualization is one of the most promising technologies for future networking and considered as a critical IT resource that connects distributed, virtualized Cloud Computing services and different components such as storage,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Duc-Lam Nguyen , HyungHo Byun , Naeon Kim , Chong-Kwon Kim

Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) is a fundamental resource allocation challenge that is associated with hard and multifaceted constraints in network function virtualization (NFV). Existing works for VNE struggle to handle such complex…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Tianfu Wang , Long Yang , Chao Wang , Chuan Qin , Liwei Deng , Wei Wu , Junyang Wang , Li Shen , Hui Xiong

Virtualization technologies are the foundation of modern ICT infrastructure, enabling service providers to create dedicated virtual networks (VNs) that can support a wide range of smart city applications. These VNs continuously generate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ali Gohar , Chunming Rong , Sanghwan Lee

Virtual network embedding (VNE) is an essential resource allocation task in network virtualization, aiming to map virtual network requests (VNRs) onto physical infrastructure. Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Tianfu Wang , Qilin Fan , Chao Wang , Long Yang , Leilei Ding , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Hui Xiong

We initiate the polyhedral study of the Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem, which arises in modern telecommunication networks. We propose new valid inequalities for the so-called flow formulation. We then prove, through a dedicated…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Amal Benhamiche , Pierre Fouilhoux , Lucas Létocart , Nancy Perrot , Alexis Schneider

In this paper, the problem of joint radio and computation resource management over multi-channel is investigated for multi-user partial offloading mobile edge computing (MEC) system. The target is to minimize the weighted sum of energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Bizheng Liang , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

As an essential resource management problem in network virtualization, virtual network embedding (VNE) aims to allocate the finite resources of physical network to sequentially arriving virtual network requests (VNRs) with different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Tianfu Wang , Li Shen , Qilin Fan , Tong Xu , Tongliang Liu , Hui Xiong

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is an emerging technology for enhancing the computational capabilities of mobile devices and reducing their energy consumption via offloading complex computation tasks to the nearby servers. Multiuser MEC at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

Virtual network embedding (VNE) is an crucial part of network virtualization (NV), which aims to map the virtual networks (VNs) to a shared substrate network (SN). With the emergence of various delay-sensitive applications, how to improve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Peiying Zhang , Xue Pang , Yongjing Ni , Haipeng Yao , Xin Li

Enabling high-definition (HD)-map-assisted cooperative driving among autonomous vehicles (AVs) to improve the navigation safety faces technical challenges due to increased communication traffic volume for data dissemination and increased…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Haixia Peng , Qiang Ye , Xuemin Shen

In this paper, a dynamic spectrum management framework is proposed to improve spectrum resource utilization in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) in autonomous vehicular network (AVNET). To support the increasing data traffic and guarantee…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Haixia Peng , Qiang Ye , Xuemin Shen

One of the fundamental problems in network virtualization is Virtual Network Embedding (VNE). The VNE problem deals with finding an effective mapping of the virtual nodes & links onto the substrate network. The recent advances in network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Luís Ferrolho , Max Alaluna , Nuno Neves , Fernando M. V. Ramos

Network embedding, which learns low-dimensional vector representation for nodes in the network, has attracted considerable research attention recently. However, the existing methods are incapable of handling billion-scale networks, because…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ziwei Zhang , Peng Cui , Haoyang Li , Xiao Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Network virtualization is an efficient approach of solving the ossification problem of the Internet. It has become a promising way of supporting lots of heterogeneous network onto substrate physical network. A major challenge in network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Neha Mishra

This paper studies the joint optimization of edge node activation and resource pricing in edge computing, where an edge computing platform provides heterogeneous resources to accommodate multiple services with diverse preferences. We cast…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Tarannum Nisha , Ni Trieu , Duong Tung Nguyen

In this paper, we study the virtual network function (VNF) placement problem in mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled 5G networks to meet the stringent reliability and latency requirements of uRLLC applications. We pose it as a constrained…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Aqsa Sayeed , Samaresh Bera

In the virtual network embedding problem, the goal is to map embed a set of virtual network instances to a given physical network substrate at minimal cost, while respecting the capacity constraints of the physical network. This NP-hard…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Oleg Kolosov , Gala Yadgar , David Breitgand , Dean H. Lorenz

Management of network resources in advanced IoT applications is a challenging topic due to their distributed nature from the Edge to the Cloud, and the heavy demand of real-time data from many sources to take action in the deployment.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Juan José López Escobar , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos , Felipe Gil-Castiñeira , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo

Network virtualization is an important concept to overcome the ossification of today's Internet as it facilitates innovation also in the network core and as it promises a more efficient use of the given resources and infrastructure. Virtual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Guy Even , Moti Medina , Gregor Schaffrath , Stefan Schmid

In this paper, we develop a framework to maximize the network energy efficiency (EE) by optimizing joint user-base station~(BS) association,~subchannel assignment, and power control considering an in-band full-duplex (IBFD)-enabled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Sheyda Zarandi , Ata Khalili , Mehdi Rasti , Hina Tabassum