Efficient provisioning of 5G network slices is a major challenge for 5G network slicing technology. Previous slice provisioning methods have only considered network resource attributes and ignored network topology attributes. These methods may result...
Fifth-generation (5G) technology is anticipated to allow a slew of novel applications across a variety of industries. The wireless communication of the 5G and Beyond-5G (B5G) networks will accommodate a wide variety of services and user expectations,...
Network slicing is a promising technology that network operators can deploy the services by slices with heterogeneous quality of service (QoS) requirements. However, an orchestrator for network operation with efficient slice resource provisioning alg...
Managing the large volumes of IoT and M2M traffic requires the evaluation of the scalability and reliability for all the components in the end-to-end system. This includes connectivity, mobile network functions, and application or services receiving...
The fifth-generation mobile network presents a wide range of services which have different requirements in terms of performance, bandwidth, reliability, and latency. The legacy networks are not capable to handle these diverse services with the same p...
Network Slicing and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) are vital enablers for achieving 5G and 6G networks. A 5G/6G network can comprise various network slices from unique or multiple tenants. Network providers need to perform intelligent and efficien...
One of the core features of 5G networks is the ability to support multiple services on the same infrastructure, with network slicing being a key technology. However, existing network slicing architectures have limitations in efficiently handling slic...
Network slicing is a core enabler of multi-tenant 5th Generation (5G) architectures, allowing heterogeneous services to coexist over shared infrastructure. However, ensuring effective isolation between slices remains a critical security challenge, as...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of telecommunications, the integration of commercial 5G solutions and the rise of edge computing have reshaped service delivery, emphasizing the customization of requirements through network slices. However, the hete...
The academic and professional community has recently started to develop the concept of 6G networks. The scientists have defined key performance indicators and pursued large-scale automation, ambient sensing intelligence, and pervasive artificial inte...
As mobile communications transform, 5G technology can potentially change many industries and businesses. The change will have a great influence across many fields, such as the automotive, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors. This paper aims to revi...
The research and innovation related to fifth-generation (5G) networks that has been carried out in recent years has decided on the fundamentals of the smart slice in radio access networks (RANs), as well as the autonomous fixed network operation. One...
Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a hot research niche exploiting the synergy between Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which can greatly benefit of the upcoming development of 5G technologies. The v...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is what we have as a great breakthrough in the 5G network. Although the 5G network can support several Internet of Everything (IoE) services, 6G is the network to fully support that. This paper is a survey research presen...
Network slicing is a key feature of the upcoming 5G networks allowing the design and deployment of customized communication systems to integrate services provided by vertical industries. In this context, massive Internet of Things (mIoT) is regarded...
A combined edge and core cloud computing environment is a novel solution in 5G network slices. The clients’ high availability requirement is a challenge because it limits the possible admission control in front of the edge cloud. This work proposes a...
Network slicing is a key technology for 5G networks, which divides the traditional physical network into multiple independent logical networks to meet the diverse requirements of end-users. This paper focuses on the resource allocation problem in the...
Virtualization is a core 5G network technology which helps telecom companies significantly reduce capital expenditure and operating expenses by deploying multiple services on the same hardware infrastructure. However, providing QoS-guaranteed service...
The Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF) in heterogeneous technology environments is a complex problem, which still does not have a fully acceptable solution. Thus, the implementation of new network selection strategies represents an important iss...
Network slicing (NS) is one of the most prominent next-generation wireless cellular technology use cases, promising to unlock the core benefits of 5G network architecture by allowing communication service providers (CSPs) and operators to construct s...
With the widespread deployment of 5G gaining pace, there is increasing interest in deploying this technology beyond traditional Mobile Network Operators (MNO) into private and community scenarios. These deployments leverage the flexibility of 5G itse...
Converging millimetre-wave (mmWave) radio access with passive optical network (PON) fronthaul under the Open RAN (O-RAN) architecture promises unprecedented capacity for beyond-5G and 6G systems. Yet today, dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) in the P...
The increasing complexity of communication systems, following the advent of heterogeneous technologies, services and use cases with diverse technical requirements, provide a strong case for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven mach...
On-demand service is the main feature of the 5G network, and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) provides it by virtualizing the existing 5G network infrastructure. NFV crafts various virtual networks on a shared physical network, but one of the co...
Flexibility is considered a key feature of 5G softwarization to deliver a timely response to changes in network requirements that may be caused by traffic variation, user mobility, dynamic network function chains, slice lifecycle management operation...
This paper presents a taxonomy-based survey of AI-driven network optimization mechanisms relevant to the transition from fifth generation (5G) to sixth generation (6G) mobile communication systems. In contrast to earlier generational shifts that are...
Cloud-native technologies are widely considered the ideal candidates for the future of vertical application development due to their boost in flexibility, scalability, and especially cost efficiency. Since multi-site support is paramount for 5G, we e...
In the last 15 years, global data traffic has been doubling approximately every 2–3 years, and there is a strong indication that this pattern will persist. Hence, also driven by the emergence of new applications and services expected within the...
Fifth-generation and more importantly the forthcoming sixth-generation networks have been given special care for latency and are designed to support low latency applications including a high flexibility New Radio (NR) interface that can be configured...
Fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks are widely positioned as key enablers of industrial digital transformation. However, despite extensive coverage expansion, the deployment landscape remains dominated by Non-Standalone (NSA) architectures integrat...
The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has specified Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) radio access technology in Releases 15–17, with an emphasis on facilitating direct communication between vehicles through the interface, sideli...
This paper introduces a hybrid two-stage registration framework for reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) kidney anatomy from macroscopic slices, using CT-derived models as the geometric reference standard. The approach addresses the data-scarcity an...