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    A Genetic Algorithm for VNF Provisioning in NFV-enabled Cloud/MEC RAN architectures 

    Ruiz, Lidia; J. Durán, Ramon; de Miguel, Ignacio; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan; Merayo, Noemí; Aguado, Juan Carlos; Pavon-Marino, Pablo; Siddiqui, Shuaib; Mata, Javier; Fernández, Patricia; Lorenzo, Rubén M.; Avril, Evaristo J. (2018-12-13)

    5G technologies promise to bring new network and service capacities and are expected to introduce significant architectural and service deployment transformations. The Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) architecture, ...

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    A P4-enabled RINA interior router for Software-Defined Data Centres 

    Bunch, Steve; Giménez, Sergio; Grasa, Eduard; Fernández, Carolina (2020-09-02)

    The lack of high-performance RINA implementations to date makes it hard to experiment with RINA as an underlay networking fabric solution for different types of networks, and to assess RINA's benefits in practice on scenarios ...

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    ARCFIRE: Experimentation with the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture 

    Chitkushev, Lou; Colle, Didier; Day, John; Grasa, Eduard; Lopez, Diego; Maffione, Vincenzo; van der Meer, Svem; Staessens, Dimitri; Tarzan, Miquel; Vrijders, Sander (2020-07-22)

    European funded research into the Recursive Inter-Network Architecture (RINA) started with IRATI, which developed an initial prototype implementation for OS/Linux. IRATI was quickly succeeded by the PRISTINE project, which ...

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    Introducing Mobile Edge Computing Capabilities through Distributed 5G Cloud Enabled Small Cells 

    Fajardo, Jose Oscar; Liberal, Fidel; Giannoulakis, Ioannis; Kafetzakis, Emmanouil; Pii, Vincenzo; Trajkovska, Irena; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Goratti, Leonardo; Riggio, Roberto; García-Lloreda, Javier; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Paolino, Michele; Bliznakov, Pavel; Pérez-Romero, Jordi; Meani, Claudio; Chochliouros, Ioannis P.; Belesioti, Maria (2016-06-01)

    Current trends in broadband mobile networks are addressed towards the placement of different capabilities at the edge of the mobile network in a centralised way. On one hand, the split of the eNB between baseband processing ...

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    IRATI: Open source RINA implementation for Linux 

    Bergesio, Leonardo; Gaston, Bernat; Grasa, Eduard; Maffione, Vincenzo; Salvestrini, Francesco; Staessens, Dimitri; Tarzan, Miquel; Vrijders, Sander (2019-09)

    IRATI is a open source implementation of RINA for OS/Linux systems that allows researchers and innovators to experiment with RINA networks. RINA is a new Internetwork architecture that supports without the need of extra ...

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    Latency and Mobility-Aware Service Function Chain Placement in 5G Networks 

    Boutaba, Raouf; Harutyunyan, Davit; Riggio, Roberto; Shahriar, Nashid (2020-10-01)

    5G networks are expected to support numerous novel services and applications with versatile quality of service (QoS) requirements such as high data rates and low end-to-end (E2E) latency. It is widely agreed that E2E latency ...

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    On the Need of Joint Bandwidth and NFV Resource Orchestration: a Realistic 5G Access Network Use Case 

    Pedreno-Manresa, Jose-Juan; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Siddiqui, Shuaib; Pavon-Marino, Pablo (2017-10-01)

    5G envisages a "hyper-connected society" where an enormous number of devices are inter-connected anywhere and at any time. Cloud-enabled radio access networks (RAN) where intelligence is placed in conjunction with the radio ...

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    ONIX: Open Radio Network Information eXchange 

    Coronado, Estefania; Riggio, Roberto (2021-11-30)

    While Video-On-Demand still takes the lion’s share of the Internet traffic, we are witnessing a significant increase in the adoption of services and applications characterized by tight requirements in terms of bitrate and ...

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    Software-Defined Vehicular Networking: Opportunities and Challenges 

    Cardona, Nelson; Coronado, Estefanía; Latré, Steven; Marquez-Barja, Johann M.; Riggio, Roberto (2020-12-17)

    Over the last ten years, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have received significant attention from the academic and industrial communities alike. VANETs are a particular type of mobile ad hoc network originally designed ...

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    Technology pillars in the architecture of future 5G mobile networks: NFV, MEC and SDN 

    Blanco, Bego; Fajardo, Jose Oscar; Giannoulakis, Ioannis; Kafetzakis, Emmanouil; Peng, Shuping; Pérez-Romero, Jordi; Trajkovska, Irena; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Goratti, Leonardo; Paolino, Michele; Sfakianakis, Evangelos (2017-01-01)

    This paper analyzes current standardization situation of 5G and the role network softwarization plays in order to address the challenges the new generation of mobile networks must face. This paper surveys recent documentation ...

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    The emergence of operator-neutral small cells as a strong case for cloud computing at the mobile edge 

    Giannoulakis, Ioannis; Kafetzakis, Emmanouil; Trajkovska, Irena; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Chochliouros, Ioannis P.; Costa, Cristina E.; Neokosmidis, Ioannis; Bliznakov, Pavel (2016-07-13)

    Small cells have emerged as a useful tool for supporting increased network capacity through network densification, but they can also be used to support edge cloud computing services. In this paper, we provide a preview of ...

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    Use Cases and Scenarios of 5G Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks for Enhanced Mobile Broadband: The SaT5G Approach 

    Liolis, Konstantinos; Geurtz, Alexander; Sperber, Ray; Schulz, Detlef; Watts, Simon; Poziopoulou, Georgia; Evans, Barry; Wang, Ning; Vidal, Oriol; Tiomela, Boris; Fitch, Michael; Diaz, Salva; Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria; Chuberre, Nicolas (2018-03-29)

    This paper presents initial results available from the European Commission Horizon 2020 5G Public Private Partnership Phase 2 project “SaT5G” (Satellite and Terrestrial Network for 5G). After describing the concept, ...