Advanced Technologies in Network and Service Management, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Networks and their provided services keep increasing in speed, size, and complexity, creating ongoing challenges to their management and control requirements. As a result, emerging tools and advanced technologies are being solicited to provide key solutions for reliable and effective network and service management.

Due to the diversity of networks and services, many tools and technologies, ranging from enabling infrastructures to innovative protocols and efficient algorithms, are necessary for scalable and streamlined management. Furthermore, a reliable and cost-effective management solution combines different technologies and exploits new network and service management venues. Such a solution is the target for infrastructure and service providers as well as the research community.

This Special Issue invites researchers to contribute original papers in areas including (but not limited to) the following:

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence for network and service management;
• Innovative architectures and protocols for network and service management;
• Innovative technologies for network and service management;
• Cloud/fog/edge computing;
• Prototype implementation and testbed experimentation;
• Software-defined networks (SDN);
• Network function virtualization (NFV);
• Network orchestration;
• Network monitoring and measurements;
• Data mining and (big) data analysis;
• Fault management;
• Network security;
• Management based on the quality of experience;
• Energy-aware management;
• Simulations for network and service management;
• Analytical model for network and service management;
• Network optimization.

Dr. Hakim Mellah
Dr. Filippo Malandra
Guest Editors

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