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Network Slicing (NS) is a fundamental feature of 5G, 6G, and future mobile networks, enabling logically isolated virtual networks over shared infrastructure. As data demand increases and services diversify, ensuring Energy Efficiency (EE)…

Network slicing is a key enabler for 5G to support various applications. Slices requested by service providers (SPs) have heterogeneous quality of service (QoS) requirements, such as latency, throughput, and jitter. It is imperative that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Muhammad Sulaiman , Mahdieh Ahmadi , Mohammad A. Salahuddin , Raouf Boutaba , Aladdin Saleh

Less than truckload shipping plays a critical role in modern supply chains by consolidating freight from multiple shippers into shared vehicles. Despite its operational flexibility and potential sustainability benefits, the LTL sector faces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Tiankuo Zhang , Paria Nourmohammadi , Sixtine Guerin , Benoit Montreuil , Alan Erera

Future wireless networks are convinced to provide flexible and cost-efficient services via exploiting network slicing techniques. However, it is challenging to configure network slicing systems for bursty ultra-reliable and low latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Peng Yang , Xing Xi , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jingxuan Chen , Xianbin Cao , Dapeng Wu

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for 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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Fan Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

5G and beyond is expected to enable various emerging use cases with diverse performance requirements from vertical industries. To serve these use cases cost-effectively, network slicing plays a key role in dynamically creating virtual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Qiang Liu , Nakjung Choi , Tao Han

We consider online learning for optimal network slice placement under the assumption that slice requests arrive according to a non-stationary Poisson process. We propose a framework based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) combined with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves , Amina Boubendir , Fabrice Guillemin , Pierre Sens

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

This paper considers the network slicing (NS) problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse service requirements. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Wei-Kun Chen , Zheyu Wu , Rui-Jin Zhang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

The combination of recent emerging technologies such as network function virtualization (NFV) and network programmability (SDN) gave birth to the novel Network Slicing paradigm. 5G networks consist of multi-tenant infrastructures capable of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Perez , Di Feng , Hans D. Schotten

Resource allocation in distributed and networked systems such as the Cloud is becoming increasingly flexible, allowing these systems to dynamically adjust toward the workloads they serve, in a demand-aware manner. Online balanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid , Ruslan Zabrodin

Network slicing enables operators to efficiently support diverse applications on a common physical infrastructure. The ever-increasing densification of network deployment leads to complex and non-trivial inter-cell interference, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tianlun Hu , Qi Liao , Qiang Liu , Georg Carle

We consider unreliable multi-hop networks serving multiple flows in which packets not delivered to their destination nodes by their deadlines are dropped. We address the design of policies for routing and scheduling packets that optimize…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rahul Singh , P. R. Kumar

We consider the tradeoff between resource efficiency and performance isolation that emerges when multiplexing the resource demands of Network Slices (NSs). On the one hand, multiplexing allows the use of idle resources, which increases…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Panagiotis Nikolaidis , Asim Zoulkarni , John Baras

Consumer-electronics systems are becoming increasingly complex as the number of integrated applications is growing. Some of these applications have real-time requirements, while other non-real-time applications only require good average…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Anna Minaeva , Premysl Sucha , Benny Akesson , Zdenek Hanzalek

Network slicing enables multiple virtual networks to be instantiated and customized to meet heterogeneous use case requirements over 5G and beyond network deployments. However, most of the solutions available today face scalability issues…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Farhad Rezazadeh , Lanfranco Zanzi , Francesco Devoti , Hatim Chergui , Xavier Costa-Perez , Christos Verikoukis

Network slicing is a key technique in 5G and beyond for efficiently supporting diverse services. Many network slicing solutions rely on deep learning to manage complex and high-dimensional resource allocation problems. However, deep…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Tianlun Hu , Qi Liao , Qiang Liu , Antonio Massaro , Georg Carle

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been increasingly employed to handle the dynamic and complex resource management in network slicing. The deployment of DRL policies in real networks, however, is complicated by heterogeneous cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Tianlun Hu , Qi Liao , Qiang Liu , Georg Carle

5G mobile networks encompass the capabilities of hosting a variety of services such as mobile social networks, multimedia delivery, healthcare, transportation, and public safety. Therefore, the major challenge in designing the 5G networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Antonio De Domenico , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

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