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Network slicing is emerging as a promising method to provide sought-after versatility and flexibility to cope with ever-increasing demands. To realize such potential advantages and to meet the challenging requirements of various network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jalal Khamse-Ashari , Gamini Senarath , Irem Bor-Yaliniz , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Dynamic spectrum slicing is a critical enabler for 6G Radio Access Networks (RANs), allowing the coexistence of heterogeneous services. However, optimizing resource allocation in dense, interference-limited deployments remains challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hossein Mohammadi , Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi , Ramak Nassiri , Jamshid Hassanpour , Bo Tang , Vuk Marojevic

Network slicing allows mobile network operators to open their physical network infrastructure platform to the concurrent deployment of multiple logical self-contained networks, i.e., network slices. In this paper we propose and analyze…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Lanfranco Zanzi , Xavier Costa-Perez , Antonio Capone

The future mobile network has the complex mission of distributing available radio resources among various applications with different requirements. The radio access network slicing enables the creation of different logical networks by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Cleverson Nahum , Salvatore D'Oro , Pedro Batista , Cristiano Both , Kleber Cardoso , Aldebaro Klautau , Tommaso Melodia

Network slicing has emerged as a key concept in 5G systems, allowing Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to build isolated logical networks (slices) on top of shared infrastructure networks managed by Infrastructure Providers (InP). Network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Quang-Trung Luu , Sylvaine Kerboeuf , Michel Kieffer

The principles of net neutrality have been essential for maintaining the diversity of services built on top of the internet and for maintaining some competition between small and large providers of those online services. That diversity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Nick Doty , Mallory Knodel

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven zero-touch network slicing (NS) is a new paradigm enabling the automation of resource management and orchestration (MANO) in multi-tenant beyond 5G (B5G) networks. In this paper, we tackle the problem of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Farhad Rezazadeh , Hatim Chergui , Luis Alonso , Christos Verikoukis

We demonstrate how the 5G network slicing model can be extended to address data security requirements. In this work we demonstrate two different slice configurations, with different encryption requirements, representing two diverse…

In this paper, we study a network slicing problem for edge-cloud orchestrated vehicular networks, in which the edge and cloud servers are orchestrated to process computation tasks for reducing network slicing cost while satisfying the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Wen Wu , Kaige Qu , Peng Yang , Ning Zhang , Xuemin , Shen , Weihua Zhuang

Next-Generation Radio Access Networks (NGRAN) aim to support diverse vertical applications with strict security, latency, and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) requirements. These demands introduce challenges in securing the infrastructure,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Adhwaa Alchaab , Ayman Younis , Dario Pompili

Network slicing plays a crucial role in realizing 5G/6G advances, enabling diverse Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements related to latency, throughput, and reliability. Since network slices are deployed end-to-end (E2E), across…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Duo Cheng , Ramanujan K Sheshadri , Ahan Kak , Nakjung Choi , Xingyu Zhou , Bo Ji

Network slicing is the key to enable virtualized resource sharing among vertical industries in the era of 5G communication. Efficient resource allocation is of vital importance to realize network slicing in real-world business scenarios. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Zijie Liu , Zhengzhe Xiang , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

The next-generation wireless networks are required to satisfy a variety of services and criteria concurrently. To address upcoming strict criteria, a new open radio access network (O-RAN) with distinguishing features such as flexible…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Fatemeh Lotfi , Omid Semiari , Fatemeh Afghah

Future wireless networks are envisioned to serve massive Internet of things (mIoT) via some radio access technologies, where the random access channel (RACH) procedure should be exploited for IoT devices to access the networks. However, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Peng Yang , Xing Xi , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jingxuan Chen , Xianbin Cao , Dapeng Wu

The forthcoming 6G networks will embrace a new realm of AI-driven services that requires innovative network slicing strategies, namely slicing for AI, which involves the creation of customized network slices to meet Quality of service (QoS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Menna Helmy , Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Naram Mhaisen , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad

Effective network slicing requires an infrastructure/network provider to deal with the uncertain demand and real-time dynamics of network resource requests. Another challenge is the combinatorial optimization of numerous resources, e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz

The fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks are foreseen to operate in a fully automated manner, in order to fulfill the promise of ultra-short latency, meet the exponentially increasing resource requirements, and offer the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-20 T. Taleb , D. E. Bensalem , A. Laghrissi

Network slicing is a promising approach for enabling low latency computation offloading in edge computing systems. In this paper, we consider an edge computing system under network slicing in which the wireless devices generate latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Slađana Jošilo , György Dán

Network slicing is a proposing technology to support diverse services from mobile users (MUs) over a common physical network infrastructure. In this paper, we consider radio access network (RAN)-only slicing, where the physical RAN is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Celimuge Wu , Tao Chen , Honggang Zhang , Mehdi Bennis

In this paper, we consider the network slicing problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo