New Insight into Network Virtualization and Management
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1096
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Network function virtualization (NFV and software-defined networking (SDN) are playing a fundamental role in the softwarization of the network infrastructure. Both technologies have revolutionized the way network functions and services are offered, improving the performance and privacy while providing better agility and significant cost reduction. The present and future application instances are often deployed as virtualized assets within software-defined infrastructures and managed (and made available) under the “as a Service” paradigm.
New methodologies for managing these virtualized and softwarized infrastructures are therefore needed. For example, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) can harness the immense amount of operational data from clouds to services as well as social and communication networks. In the era of big data and connected devices of all varieties, ML/AI has found ways to improve the operations and management of information technology networks, systems, and services. However, further research is needed to understand and improve the potential and suitability of the new mechanisms to face challenges related to the new softwarized infrastructures for faster and improved deployment, as well as reactive mechanisms, for services in 5G and beyond environments. Furthermore, the increasing need for the achievement of a computing continuum from IoT to edge to cloud poses new challenges in network management that demand new management trends.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Cross-domain network infrastructures, federation, interconnection;
- Effective integration in software-based control, multi-domain management, and orchestration;
- Effective services integration in network programmability;
- Energy efficiency and green operation in virtualized and softwarized networks;
- ML/AI, neural networks, and deep learning for management;
- Data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning for management.
Dr. Sacco Alessio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- network virtualization
- network management
- SDN
- machine learning
- edge continuum
