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In the recent years, the network and computer arena has recently expanded not only in number and in type of players but also in technologies, domains, terminals and services. This expansion seeks for intelligent and efficient control, orchestration, and management platforms able to support all the challenging requirements such as dynamicity, divers...

This document represents the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management that was held on-line on October 30 - November, 02, 2023, under the theme "Network and Service Management in the Era of Generative AI and Digital Twins". CNSM 2023 was dedicated to a number of topics in the area of Network Operations and...

This document represents the Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on the Network of the Future, that was held on October 4-6, 2023, in Izmir Turkey. Since its creation in 2010, NoF has been a premier annual conference that covers advances in the area of Future Internet design, with emphasis on enabling technologies, architectures and se...

Presents information and current topics of interest to the global communications industry.

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Mission critical solutions are essential for providing communications and services in the case of the troubles with connectivity that are often found in infrastructure-based solutions. Such solutions are typically used in the case of disasters, lack of energy, etc. There exist several narrowband solutions that provide countrywide coverage in certai...

This document represents the Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2022), that took place on 27 June - 1 July 2022 in Milan, Italy. The conference was organized around the theme "Network Softwarization Coming of Age: New Challenges and Opportunities". This theme recognizes the fact that Network Softwarization has...

This document represents the Proceedings of the 18th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022), that took place on April 25-29, 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. As a lot of new and challenging research and developments have been ongoing worldwide, the theme of the conference was "Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudi...

Network slicing is a relatively recent paradigm that has become a subject of intensive research. Most of the existing approaches follow the ETSI NFV MANO model with some extensions related to multi-domain slicing, slice selection, etc. The framework is a part of the standalone variant of the 5G network standardized by 3GPP. However, the current imp...

This document represents the Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on the Network of the Future, that was held on October 6-8, 2021, initially planned in Coimbra, Portugal and finally taking place on-line. Since its creation in 2010, NoF has been a premier annual conference that covers advances in the area of Future Internet design, wit...

The ETSI MANO framework has been under development since November 2012. It is a widely accepted solution for network virtualization. Despite its already long life the framework is still not only undergoing considerable changes such as extending support to containerized environments, but also lacks several features that are crucial for management an...

The term “SDN” represents a significant evolution in networking technology and draws attention and support from network operators, vendors, researchers and industry regulators. Contrary to popular belief that SDN is a recent invention, or is related only to IP technologies, the concept of network programmability and control/data plane separation ha...

The Book gathers the contributions presented at the 11th International Conference on Networks of the Future (NoF 2020), that was held on-line on October 10-12, 2020, though originally planned in Bordeaux, France. The Network of the Future (NoF) conference is an annual conference that covers advances in the areas of Future Internet design and manage...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) approaches have emerged in the networking domain with great expectation. They can be broadly divided into AI/ML techniques for network engineering and management, network designs for AI/ML applications, and system concepts. AI/ML techniques for networking and management improve the way we addre...

The book gathers contributions presented at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2020) that was held as a virtual event. IEEE NetSoft 2020 addressing network softwarization technologies, Cloud, fog and edge infrastructures for 5G, network programmability and software-defined networking, abstraction and virtualiza...

The softwarization of networks is enabled by the SDN (Software-Defined Networking), NV (Network Virtualization), and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) paradigms, and offers many advantages for network operators, service providers and datacenter providers. Given the strong interest in both industry and academia in the softwarization of telecommu...

The book gathers contributions presented at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2019) in Paris, France. IEEE NetSoft 2019 analyzed how the continuous evolution of software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and cloud networking techniques, which are now extended to edge and access...

The Book gathers the contributions presented at the 15th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2019), that was held on March19-21, 201ç in Coimbra, Portugal. The program addressed key issues in reliability, availability and service assurance of networks and services thorough 5 technical sessions and 1 Speci...

Research in large-scale networking systems has been shaped and will continue to be guided by specific characteristics of applications and the underlying platforms and infrastructures. On the one hand, applications are growing at an accelerated pace, which is fundamentally unpredictable in both breadth and depth. On the other hand, the underlying ne...

The Book gathers the contributions presented at the 9th International Conference on Networks of the Future (NoF 2018), that was held on November 19-21, 2018 in Poznań, Poland. The program addressed key issues in future Networks, namely Routing and Transport Protocols, Network slicing, Security and planning, and IoT. The program was complemented wi...

Presents key events and topics in the global communications industry.

The softwarization of networks is enabled by the SDN (Software-Defined Networking), NV (Network Virtualization), and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) paradigms, and offers many advantages for network operators, service providers and datacenter providers. Given the strong interest in both industry and academia in the softwarization of telecommu...

This short article reports on the 4th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization, held on June 25-29, 2018 in Montreal, Canada. It has been published in the Global Communications Newsletter of IEEE Communications Magazine.

The book gathers contributions presented at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization, Montreal, Canada. NetSoft 2018 aimed to shed light on the key technology components and systems underlying SDN-NFV, clouds-edges and emerging network service infrastructures for the efficient handling of heterogeneous resources across networ...

This short foreword introduces the technical program of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2018).

ICIN was established in 1989 and is widely recognized for its continuous adaptation to emerging technical trends, attracting numerous industry and academic players. In the light of coordinated 5G deployment across all EU Member States, targeting early network introduction, and moving towards commercial large-scale introduction by the end of 2020, t...

ICIN, established in 1989, is widely recognized for its continuous adaptation to emerging technical trends. The 2018 event is dedicated to 5G network architectures and enablers, focusing on early network introduction towards commercial large-scale introduction by the end of 2020.

Softwarization of networks is an important trend, enabled by the NV (Network Virtualization), SDN (Software-Defined Networking), and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) paradigms and offers many advantages for network operators, service providers and datacenter providers. Given the strong interest in both industry and academia in the softwarizati...

The book gathers contributions presented at the IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2017) held in Lisbon, Portugal.

The 28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 28) was held on 12--16 September 2016 at the University of W\"urzburg, Germany. The conference was technically cosponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and the Information Technology Society within VDE, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM. ITC 28 provided a forum for leading researchers from ac...

Efficient Service Level Agreements (SLA) management and anticipation of Service Level Objectives (SLO) breaches become mandatory to guarantee the fulfilled services in the context of softwarized networks. In this paper, using Artificial Neural Networks, we design, specify and evaluate a framework for cognitive SLA enforcement of networking services...

Le monde des télécommunications connaît une transformation sans précédent avec l'introduction de modèles issus du monde informatique, largement adoptés aujourd'hui par les acteurs industriels majeurs. Deux concepts essentiels sous-tendent cette évolution sont introduits : la softwarisation des réseaux et la webification des services. Cet article se...

There is currently a strong interest in both industry and academia in the softwarization of telecommunication networks and cloud computing infrastructures. This evolution is enabled by three paradigms. First, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows network control to be separated from the forwarding plane and allows for a flexible management of th...

Techno-economic drivers are creating the conditions for a radical change of paradigm in the design and operation of future telecommunications infrastructures. In fact, SDN, NFV, Cloud and Edge-Fog Computing are converging together into a single systemic transformation termed “Softwarization” that will find concrete exploitations in 5G systems. The...

Techno-economic drivers are creating the conditions for a radical change of paradigm in the design and operation of future telecommunications infrastructures. In fact, SDN, NFV, Cloud and Edge-Fog Computing are converging together into a single systemic transformation termed “Softwarization” that will find concrete exploitations in 5G systems. The...

This book is the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, namely DRCN 2016. DRCN 2016 was held on March 14-16, 2016 in Paris, France. The individual papers can be obtained through IEEE Xplore at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7467375

In Part I of the special issue, the main reported research contributions were: efficient resource allocation and management of softwarized network functions, design of highperformance platforms to allow network function virtualization on commodity machines, and enabling efficient collaboration between providers in softwarized networks. From the twe...

This special issue presents recent research in the area of softwarized networks. Twenty six papers were submitted for this special issue. After extensive review and discussion, it was decided to publish the four accepted papers in this special issue (appearing March 1st 2015) and a similar number in the special issue along with the next issue (appe...

Information-centric networking (ICN) has received significant attention in recent years, mainly driven by the fact that distributing and manipulating information has become the major function of the Internet today. Unlike the traditional host-centric networking paradigm where information is obtained by contacting specified named hosts, ICN is aimed...

In 2013, the IEEE Future Directions Committee (FDC) formed an SDN work group to explore the amount of interest in forming an IEEE Software-Defined Network (SDN) Community. To this end, a Workshop on “SDN for Future Networks and Services” (SDN4FNS’13) was organized in Trento, Italy (Nov. 11th-13th 2013). Following the results of the workshop, in thi...

Software-Defined Networking currently appears to be a major evolution towards network programmability. In this paper, we first analyze the network management capabilities of OpenFlow in order to identify the main challenges that are raised for SDN management. We address current deficiencies of SDN management and suggest solutions that incur researc...

This paper (in French) shows our vision of future networks as they could evolve within 5 to 10 years from now. Five major issues illustrate this evolution: (i) traffic increase at the access and transport networks challenged by FTTH, VDSL and LTE for the former, by advanced optical technologies for the latter; (ii) transformation from current conte...

The first part of this feature topic that appeared in the July issue had the ambition to introduce the basic concepts of several new ICN architectures, such as NetInf, content-centric networking (CCN), and the publish-subscribe Internet (PSI) architecture]. The articles that appeared in that issue put their emphasis on the fundamentally required fu...

A Substitution Network (SN) is a rapidly deployable temporary wireless network that should be dynamically integrated within an existing base network. They back-up the base network inorder to meet temporary network overloaded conditions to keep providing services and to ensure the network connectivity, which could not be achieved by the base network...

Information-centric networking (ICN) is a relatively new research area that is motivated by significant changes witnessed in the industry regarding applications and services, as well as customer practice and expectations. Indeed, the vast majority of network traffic today (both Internet and intranet) consists of content dissemination, information t...

A new network architecture for the Internet needs ingredients from three approaches: information- centric networking, cloud computing integrated with networking, and open connectivity. Information-centric networking considers pieces of information as first-class entities of a networking architecture, rather than only indirectly identifying and mani...

The 21st International Teletraffic Congress, held in Paris from September 15-17, 2009, presented several research papers on telecommunication traffic. The paper 'A new statistical approach to estimate global file populations from local observations in the eDonkey P2P file sharing system' proposed a new statistical approach for the estimation of glo...

Future Internet (FI) research and development threads have recently been gaining momentum all over the world and as such the international race to create a new generation Internet is in full swing: GENI, Asia Future Internet, Future Internet Forum Korea, European Union Future Internet Assembly (FIA). This is a position paper identifying the researc...

Advances in telecommunications networks have enabled the deployment of multimedia applications that are gradually being used in day-to-day life, integrating both data, voice and video. These applications are now entering new networked environments which encompass mobility and ubiquity. The development of new access and transport technologies which...

The 20th anniversary of the operational implementation of dynamic routing in circuit-switched networks represents a unique opportunity to look back on a subject that generated so much interest around the world and to analyze the influence of such studies in the design of new networks. It is first useful to recall the objectives of dynamic routing,...

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As the Telecommunications Network Management (TMN) standardization is progressing within the ITU-T and other international bodies, traffic engineering and network traffic management should become more and more impacted by the results of such an evolution. The objective of this article is on the one hand, to give an overview of the current TMN stand...

The application of fuzzy control to adaptive traffic routing in telephone networks is investigated. The authors use, on one hand, the properties of fuzzy control techniques and adaptive routing, on the other hand, to derive a routing system that is robust and efficient. They analyze the impact of various availability indicators on performance, whic...

This paper looks at the development of a fuzzy controller for adaptive traffic routing in telephone networks. As the information related to network performance is imprecise by nature, a new approach based on fuzzy logic could prove to be efficient. So a simplified inference method has been derived which attempts to represent gradual inference rules...

This paper concerns the development of a fuzzy controller for adaptive traffic routing in telephone networks. As the information related to network performance is unprecise by nature, a simplified inference method has been derived which attempts to represent gradual inference rules using a fuzzy logic approach. The analysis of preliminary results o...

This paper presents applications of artificial intelligence techniques to real-time circuit-switched network management. We focus on the problem of diagnosis making in order to detect and identify abnormal situations in the network. Two differ¬ent approaches respectively based on expert system and neural trees are proposed. The methodologies underl...

This paper proposes the application of artificial intelligence techniques to real-time circuit-switched network management. We deal with two problems : first diagnosis making to detect abnormal situations in the network, second application of the best set of traffic controls in order to guarantee optimal performance during network degradation. We p...

This paper describes the application of artificial intelligence techniques to network management. More precisely, we focus our attention to the real-time diagnosis of abnormal situations in circuit-switched networks. We detail the methodology to set up the knowledge rules which feed the expert system under consideration. Finally we present a protot...