Small cEllS coordinAtion for Multi-tenancy and Edge services

Deliverables

Documents, reports (22)

Framework of a distributed network management system capable to host and run Self-X functionalities

Framework of a distributed network management system capable to host and run Self-X functionalities:

Virtualisation extensions for acceleration of Light DC capabilities

Virtualisation extensions for acceleration of Light DC capabilities: Mechanisms for the support of Light DC server architecture through virtualisation extensions for acceleration.

CESC Small Cell prototype and PoC

CESC Small Cell prototype and PoC: This deliverable will report the results of the PoC evaluation of the CESC Small Cell prototype, and will showcase the independent demonstrations.

Plans for Dissemination, Communication, Standardisation and Exploitation, Interaction with 5GPPP

Report on awareness and wider societal implications

Report on awareness and wider societal implications: This deliverable will contain the results of the work within SESAME, relative to the reports to the EU on practical as well as socially impacting issues. The report will also include specific information on how gender issues were carefully addressed by the project.

Service Management and Orchestration functions, including VNF models – Interim

Service Management and Orchestration functions, including VNF models – Interim:

Light DC Prototype

Light DC Prototype:

Integrated CESC Prototype Validation

Integrated CESC Prototype Validation: Report on the results of the CESC integrated prototype validation and associated performance assessments.

VIM and CESCM Implementation

VIM and CESCM Implementation:

SESAME Final Integrated Architecture and PoC Assessment KPIs

SESAME Final Integrated Architecture and PoC Assessment KPIs:

Experimental Integration results of HW/SW modules of the overall SESAME framework

Experimental Integration results of HW/SW modules of the overall SESAME framework: Description of final SESAME integration including the CESC and CESCM PoC prototypes.

Overall Assessment and Roadmap

Overall Assessment and Roadmap: Overview of the project achievements, lessons learned, proposals for future research and recommendations for the adoption of the SESAME solution partially or as a whole.

Techniques for efficient VNF Deployment with relevant VIM extensions, Evaluation framework

Techniques for efficient VNF Deployment with relevant VIM extensions, Evaluation framework: Investigation and implementation of VNF development, combining SDN, NFV, as well as dynamic Cloud management techniques. Description and implementation of methods for efficient monitoring and optimisation for the relevant components. Validation and performance evaluation of the developed framework under various workloads and configurations.

Orchestrator Architecture Design and Interfaces Specification

Orchestrator Architecture Design and Interfaces Specification: Design, description and specification of the orchestrator components and interfaces.

Orchestrator Prototype

Orchestrator Prototype: Description and development of cognitive resource management on the network functions and services at the orchestration level.

Service Management and Orchestration functions, including VNF models – Final

Service Management and Orchestration functions, including VNF models – Final: Definition of the engine mechanisms to coordinate the execution of the different workflows at the orchestrator level. Description of VNF lifecycle for cognitive management within the orchestrator.

CESC Prototype design specifications and initial studies on Self-X and virtualization aspects

CESC Prototype design specifications and initial studies on Self-X and virtualization aspects: Elaboration on the prototype design of the CESC Small Cell component, and results of initial studies of the Self-X features and virtualization aspects of the CESC Small Cell part.

Overall System Architecture and Interfaces – First Iteration

Overall System Architecture and Interfaces – First Iteration: Presentation of the overall system architecture, definition of all the defined layers of SESAME architecture including functional description of sub-modules, interfaces and data to be exchanged. Gathering of the architecture requirements, assumptions and scientific choices. This deliverable will illustrate the first version of the SESAME architecture and its interfaces as a result of the first iteration.

System Use Cases and Requirements

System Use Cases and Requirements: Elaboration on the definition of the SESAME System Use Cases. Identification of the fundamental limitations addressed, envisaged innovations and key system requirements.

Description of CESC abstraction model

Description of CESC abstraction model:

Techniques and optimisation of VNF placement algorithms – Security issues

Techniques and optimisation of VNF placement algorithms – Security issues:

Integrated Pilot and Evaluation Report

Integrated Pilot and Evaluation Report: Report on the integrated pilot systems, their interconnection, the use cases implemented and the evaluation results. Description and deployment of the pilot sites, including the equipment to complement the developed SESAME modules.

Other (1)

Project website

Project website SESAME Project website will be officially launched on the start day of Project. The website will provide detailed information about the Project objectives and activities. The website will have two sections: public and private. The public part will be open to the general public and will be viewable by anyone with access to Internet. The private part will be regularly updated to provide latest project activities and overall progress and will be accessible only to consortium members. The website will be maintained by the PM.

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Conference proceedings (51)

Enabling technologies and benefits of multi-tenant multi-service 5G Small Cells

Author(s): Ioannis Giannoulakis, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Javier Garcia Lloreda, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Cristina Ruiz, August Betzler, Emmanouil Kafetzakis, Jordi Perez-Romero, Antonino Albanese, Michele Paolino, Leonardo Goratti, Roberto Riggio
Published in: 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2016, Page(s) 42-46, ISBN 978-1-5090-2893-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561001

Small Cells as a Service: From Capacity Provisioning to Full Customisation

Author(s): O. Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero, R. Ferrús and R. Agustí
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2016) June 27-30, 2016, 2016, Page(s) 1-2
Publisher: University of Piraeus, Greece and the National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Bitrate Adaptation in Backward-Shifted Coding (BSC) for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming

Author(s): Z. Ye, R. El-Azouzi, T. Jiménez, F. de Pellegrini and S. Valentin
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2016), 2016
Publisher: ACM SigComm

Bounded Generalized Kelly Mechanism for Multi-tenant Caching in Mobile Edge Clouds

Author(s): Francesco De Pellegrini, Antonio Massaro, Leonardo Goratti, Rachid El-Azouzi
Published in: Proceedings of the Netgcoop 2016, 2016, Page(s) 89-99
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51034-7_9

A pricing scheme for content caching in 5G mobile edge clouds

Author(s): Francesco De Pellegrini, Antonio Massaro, Leonardo Goratti, Rachid El-Azouzi
Published in: 2016 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM), 2016, Page(s) 193-198, ISBN 978-1-5090-3837-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WINCOM.2016.7777213

Service provisioning and pricing methods in a multi-tenant cloud enabled RAN

Author(s): P. S. Khodashenas, C. Ruiz, J. Ferrer Riera, J. O. Fajardo, I. Taboada, B. Blanco, F. Liberal, J. G. Lloreda, J. Perez-Romero, O. Sallent, I. Neokosmidis, T. Rokkas
Published in: 2016 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2016, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN.2016.7785191

Security Challenges of Small Cell as a Service in Virtualized Mobile Edge Computing Environments

Author(s): Vassilios Vassilakis, Emmanouil Panaousis, Haralambos Mouratidis
Published in: 2016, Page(s) 70-84
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45931-8_5

Turning an open source project into a carrier grade vswitch for NFV: Vosyswitch challenges & results

Author(s): Michele Paolino, Jeremy Fanguede, Nikolay Nikolaev, Daniel Raho
Published in: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IC-NIDC), 2016, Page(s) 22-27, ISBN 978-1-5090-1246-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNIDC.2016.7974529

Design of Cognitive Cycles in 5G networks

Author(s): Bego Blanco, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Fidel Liberal
Published in: 2016, Page(s) 697-708, ISBN 978-3-319-44944-9
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44944-9_62

Architectural Models for Enabling Network Virtualization Technologies in Cloud Environment

Author(s): I.P. Chochliouros, N. Bompetsis, G. Agapiou, A.S, Spiliopoulou, A. Dardamanis, S. Agapiou, M. Belesioti, E. Sfakianakis and M. Iosifidis
Published in: Proceedings of the 55th FITCE International Congress, 2016, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-618-82734-0-5
Publisher: FITCE

Modern Business and Market Perspectives coming from the Progress of the SESAME Project Effort

Author(s): I.P. Chochliouros, A.S. Spiliopoulou, A. Kostopoulos, I. Papafili, A. Dardamanis, I. Neokosmidis, T. Rokkas and L. Goratti
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2017) / SESAME Special Session (SPS10), 2017, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: University of Oulu, Finland in cooperation with the European Commission

A Modern Architectural View based upon Enhancements of the SESAME Innovative Approach

Author(s): I.P. Chochliouros, I. Giannoulakis, E. Sfakianakis, A. Kostopoulos, A. Kourtis, D. Arvanitozisis, A.S. Spiliopoulou, M. Belesioti, P.S. Khodashenas, J.O. Fajardo, A. Dardamanis, J. Garcia-Lloreda, E. Kafetzakis and J. Perez Romero
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2017) / SESAME Special Session (SPS10), 2017, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: University of Oulu, Finland in cooperation with the European Commission

Self-X functions in cloud enabled small cell networks

Author(s): J. Pérez-Romero, C.E. Costa, B. Abubakar, E. Panaousis, H. Mouratidis, K.M. Nasr, S. Vahid and K. Moessner
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2017) / SESAME Special Session (SPS10), 2017, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: University of Oulu, Finland in cooperation with the European Commission

On implementing RRM/SON in virtualized multi-tenant small cell networks

Author(s): J. Perez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Ferrus, R. Agusti
Published in: 2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-3873-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980668

Ensuring Quality of Service in a multi-tenant cloud-enabled RAN environment

Author(s): Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, August Betzler, Javier Garcia Lloreda, Elisa Jimeno, Irena Trajkovska, Luca Del Vecchio, Alan Whitehead
Published in: 2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2017, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-3873-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980658

Techniques for Providing Software and Hardware Acceleration to VNFs Running on the Edge Cloud - Conceiving Accelerated Nodes for Computation at the Mobile Edge

Author(s): P. Bliznakov, M. Paolino, S. Pinneterre, A. Albanese, P. Paglierani and C. Meani
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2017) / SESAME Special Session (SPS10), 2017, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: University of Oulu, Finland in cooperation with the European Commission

Implications of Multi-tenancy upon RRM/Self-x Functions Supporting Mobility Control

Author(s): Ioannis Chochliouros, Oriol Sallent, Jordi Pérez-Romero, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Athanassios Dardamanis
Published in: EANN 2017, CCIS 744, 2017, Page(s) 657-668
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_55

Putting Intelligence in the Network Edge through NFV and Cloud computing: The SESAME Approach

Author(s): Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Alexandros Kostopoulos, Maria Belesioti, Evangelos Sfakianakis, Philippos Georgantas, Eirini Vasilaki, Ioannis Neokosmidis, Theodoros Rokkas, Athanassios Dardamanis
Published in: EANN 2017, CCIS 744, 2017, Page(s) 704-715
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_59

Inclusion of “Self-x” Properties in the SESAME-Based Wireless Backhaul for Support of Higher Performance

Author(s): Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Alan Whitehead, Oriol Sallent, Jordi Pérez-Romero, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Athanassios Dardamanis
Published in: EANN-2017, CCIS 744, 2017, Page(s) 716-727
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_60

Are Small Cells and Network Intelligence at the Edge the Drivers for 5G Market Adoption? The SESAME Case

Author(s): Ioannis Neokosmidis, Theodoros Rokkas, Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Leonardo Goratti, Haralambos Mouratidis, Karim M. Nasr, Seiamak Vahid, Klaus Moessner, Antonino Albanese, Paolo Secondo Crosta, Pietro Paglierani
Published in: EANN-2017, CCIS 744, 2017, Page(s) 693-703
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_58

The Role of Virtualization in the Small Cell Enabled Mobile Edge Computing Ecosystem

Author(s): Leonardo Goratti, C. E. Costa, Jordi Perez-Romero, P. S. Khodashenas, Alan Whitehead, Ioannis Chochliouros
Published in: EANN-2017, CCIS 744, 2017, Page(s) 728-733
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_61

On Introducing Knowledge Discovery Capabilities in Cloud-Enabled Small Cells

Author(s): Jordi Pérez-Romero, Juan Sánchez-González, Oriol Sallent, Alan Whitehead
Published in: EANN-2017, CCIS 744, 2017, Page(s) 680-692
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_57

Design of Virtual Infrastructure Manager with Novel VNF Placement Features for Edge Clouds in 5G

Author(s): Ruben Solozabal, Bego Blanco, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Ianire Taboada, Fidel Liberal, Elisa Jimeno, Javier G. Lloreda
Published in: EANN-2017, CCIS 744, 2017, Page(s) 669-679
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_56

Knowledge-based 5G Radio Access Network planning and optimization

Author(s): J. Perez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Ferrus, R. Agusti
Published in: 2016 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 2016, Page(s) 359-365, ISBN 978-1-5090-2061-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISWCS.2016.7600929

Multi-tenant mobility control in Small Cells as a Service

Author(s): O. Sallent, J. Perez-Romero, R. Ferrus, R. Agusti
Published in: 2016 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 2016, Page(s) 366-372, ISBN 978-1-5090-2061-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISWCS.2016.7600930

On extracting user-centric knowledge for personalised Quality of Service in 5G networks

Author(s): J. Sanchez-Gonzalez, O. Sallent, J. Perez-Romero, R. Agusti
Published in: 2017 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM), 2017, Page(s) 971-974, ISBN 978-3-901882-89-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/INM.2017.7987408

Capacity self-planning in Small Cell multi-tenant 5G Networks

Author(s): P. Munoz, O. Sallent, J. Perez-Romero
Published in: 2017 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM), 2017, Page(s) 1109-1114, ISBN 978-3-901882-89-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/INM.2017.7987449

Design aspects for 5G architectures: The SESAME and COHERENT approach

Author(s): Alexandros Kostopoulos, Ioannis Chochliouros, Fang-Chun Kuo, Roberto Riggio, Leonardo Goratti, Navid Nikaein, Ioannis Giannoulakis, Jordi Perez-Romero, Tao Chen, Rebecca Steinert, Dorin Panaitopol
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2017, Page(s) 986-992, ISBN 978-1-5090-1525-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962787

Admission control for multi-tenant Radio Access Networks

Author(s): J. Perez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Ferrus, R. Agusti
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2017, Page(s) 1073-1078, ISBN 978-1-5090-1525-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962801

Self-Optimized Admission Control for Multi-tenant Radio Access Networks

Author(s): J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Ferrús and R. Agustí
Published in: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC-2017), 2017, ISBN 978-1-5386-3531-5
Publisher: IEEE

Flexible Capacity Sharing in Multi-tenant Wireless Networks through Fuzzy Neural Controllers

Author(s): J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Ferrús and R. Agustí
Published in: IEEE Globecom 2017, 2017, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: IEEE

GPU-accelerated Video Transcoding Unit for Multi-access Edge Computing Scenarios

Author(s): A. Albanese, P.S Crosta, C. Meani and P. Paglierani
Published in: The Sixteenth International Conference on Networks (ICN 2017) including SOFTNETWORKING 2017, 2017, Page(s) 143-147, ISBN 978-1-61208-546-3
Publisher: IARIA

Roadmap to 5G success: Influencing Factors and an Innovative Business Model

Author(s): I. Neokosmidis and T. Rokkas
Published in: Joint 13th CTTE and 10th CMI Conference 2017 on Internet of Things – Business Models, Users and Networks, 2017, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: IEEE

Revisiting SESAME Architecture for 5G Networks

Author(s): I.P. Chochliouros, A. Kostopoulos, E. Sfakianakis, D. Arvanitozisis, A.S. Spiliopoulou, M. Belesioti, I. Giannoulakis, A. Kourtis, P.S. Khodashenas, J.-O. Fajardo, A. Dardamanis, E. Kafetzakis, J.G. Lloreda and Jordi Perez-Romero
Published in: International Conferences WWW/Internet 2017 (ICWI) and Applied Computing 2017, 2017, Page(s) 47-54, ISBN 978-989-8533-69-2
Publisher: IADIS

Business and Market Perspectives in 5G Networks

Author(s): I.P. Chochliouros, A. Kostopoulos, A.S. Spiliopoulou, A. Dardamanis, I. Neokosmidis, T. Rokkas and L. Goratti
Published in: Joint 13th CTTE and 10th CMI Conference 2017 on Internet of Things – Business Models, Users and Networks, 2017
Publisher: IEEE

FPGA virtualization with accelerators overcommitment for Network Function Virtualization

Author(s): M.Paolino, S. Pinneterre, D. Raho
Published in: 2017
Publisher: IEEE

Security requirements modelling for virtualized 5G small cell networks

Author(s): Vassilios G. Vassilakis, Haralambos Mouratidis, Emmanouil Panaousis, Ioannis D. Moscholios, Michael D. Logothetis
Published in: 2017 24th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), 2017, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-0643-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICT.2017.7998269

Quality of Service (QoS) oriented management system in 5G cloud enabled RAN

Author(s): Ruben Solozabal, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Bego Blanco, Fidel Liberal
Published in: Proceedings XIII Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica - JITEL2017, 2017, Page(s) 170-175, ISBN 9788-490485958
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica València
DOI: 10.4995/JITEL2017.2017.6587

FPGA virtualization with accelerators overcommitment for Network Function Virtualization

Author(s): M.Paolino, S. Pinneterre, D. Raho
Published in: Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGA (ReConFig 2017), December 4-6, Cancun, Mexico, 2017
Publisher: IEEE

SnabbSwitch user space virtual switch benchmark and performance optimization for NFV

Author(s): Michele Paolino, Nikolay Nikolaev, Jeremy Fanguede, Daniel Raho
Published in: 2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN), 2015, Page(s) 86-92, ISBN 978-1-4673-6884-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387411

On Learning and Exploiting Time Domain Traffic Patterns in Cellular Radio Access Networks

Author(s): J. Pérez-Romero, J. Sánchez-Gonzalez, O. Sallent and R. Agusti
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM’16), 2016, Page(s) 501-515
Publisher: Springer

Dynamic strict fractional frequency reuse for software-defined 5G networks

Author(s): Anteneh A. Gebremariam, Tingnan Bao, Domenico Siracusa, Tinku Rasheed, Fabrizio Granelli, Leonardo Goratti
Published in: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2016, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4799-6664-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7510890

Self-X in SESAME

Author(s): J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, C. Ruiz, A. Betzler, P.S. Khodashenas, S. Vahid, K.M. Nasr, B. Abubakar, A. Whitehead and L. Goratti
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC 2016), 2016, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: NTUA and University of Piraeus (in cooperation with the European Commission)

Defining a Proper Methodology for Effective SESAME-based Scenarios and Potential Use-Cases to Create Market Impact and Promote Modern Services

Author(s): I.P. Chochliouros, E. Sfakianakis, M. Belesioti, D. Arvanitozisis, A.S. Spiliopoulou, I. Trajkovska, V. Pii, I. Neokosmidis, T. Rokkas, A. Dardamanis, H. Mouratidis, C. Turyagyenda and S. Peng
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC 2016), 2016, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: NTUA and University of Piraeus (in cooperation with the European Commission)

Challenges for Defining Opportunities for Development and Growth in the 5G Era: The SESAME Conceptual Model

Author(s): I.P. Chochliouros, E. Sfakianakis, M. Belesioti, A.S. Spiliopoulou and A. Dardamanis
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC 2016), 2016, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: NTUA and University of Piraeus (in cooperation with the European Commission)

SESAME's Essential Architecture Features

Author(s): C.E. Costa and G. Goratti
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC 2016), 2016, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: NTUA and University of Piraeus (in cooperation with the European Commission)

A Competitive Scheme for Edge Caching in 5G Networks

Author(s): F. De Pellegrini, A. Massaro, L. Goratti and R. El Azouzi
Published in: Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications (ISDG-2016), 2016
Publisher: International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG)

Security Analysis of Mobile Edge Computing in Virtualized Small Cell Networks

Author(s): Vassilios Vassilakis, Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Evangelos Sfakianakis, Maria Belesioti, Nikolaos Bompetsis, Mick Wilson, Charles Turyagyenda and Athanassios Dardamanis.
Published in: IFIP AICT 475 (Proceedings of the AIAI-2016 International Conference), 2016, Page(s) 653-665, ISBN 978-3-319-44944-9
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44944-9_58

A Model for an innovative 5G-related Architecture, based on Small Cells Coordination for Multi-Tenancy and Edge Services

Author(s): Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Ioannis Giannoulakis, Tassos Kourtis, Maria Belesioti, Evangelos Sfakianakis, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Nikolaos Bompetsis, Emmanouil Kafetzakis, Leonardo Goratti and Athanassios Dardamanis
Published in: IFIP AICT 475 (Proceedings of the AIAI-2016 Conference), 2016, Page(s) 666-675, ISBN 978-3-319-44944-9
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44944-9_59

Security Challenges of Small Cell as a Service in Virtualized Mobile Edge Computing Environments

Author(s): V. Vassilakis, E. Panaousis and H. Mouratidis
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP 2016), 2016
Publisher: WISTP

Turning an open source project into a carrier grade vSwitch, for NFV: VOSYSwitch challenges & results

Author(s): M. Paolino, J. Fanguède, N. Nikolaev and D. Raho
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (NIDC 2016), 2016
Publisher: IEEE

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Delay- and energy-aware load balancing in ultra-dense heterogeneous 5G networks

Author(s): Ianire Taboada, Samuli Aalto, Pasi Lassila, Fidel Liberal
Published in: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 28/9, 2017, Page(s) e3170, ISSN 2161-3915
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/ett.3170

QoE-Oriented Mobile Edge Service Management Leveraging SDN and NFV

Author(s): Shuping Peng, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Begoña Blanco, Fidel Liberal, Cristina Ruiz, Charles Turyagyenda, Mick Wilson, Sunil Vadgama
Published in: Mobile Information Systems, 2017, 2017, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1574-017X
Publisher: IOS Press
DOI: 10.1155/2017/3961689

On Radio Access Network Slicing from a Radio Resource Management Perspective

Author(s): Oriol Sallent, Jordi Perez-Romero, Ramon Ferrus, Ramon Agusti
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications, 24/5, 2017, Page(s) 166-174, ISSN 1536-1284
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2017.1600220WC

Immersive Video Services at the Edge: an Energy-Aware Approach

Author(s): Pietro Paglierani, Claudio Meani, Antonino Albanese, Paolo Secondo Crosta
Published in: International Journal on Advances in Telecommunications, 10 (3,4), 2017, Page(s) 145-154, ISSN 1942-2601
Publisher: IARIA

The Emergence of Operator-neutral Small Cells as a Strong Case for Cloud-like Computing at the Mobile Edge

Author(s): I. Giannoulakis, E. Kafetzakis, I. Trajkovska, P.S. Khodashenas, I.P. Chochliouros, C. Costa and P. Bliznakov
Published in: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), 2016, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 2161-3915
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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

Author(s): Jose Oscar Fajardo, Fidel Liberal, Ioannis Giannoulakis, Emmanouil Kafetzakis, Vincenzo Pii, Irena Trajkovska, Thomas Michael Bohnert, Leonardo Goratti, Roberto Riggio, Javier Garcia Lloreda, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Michele Paolino, Pavel Bliznakov, Jordi Perez-Romero, Claudio Meani, Ioannis Chochliouros, Maria Belesioti
Published in: Mobile Networks and Applications, 21/4, 2016, Page(s) 564-574, ISSN 1383-469X
Publisher: Baltzer Science Publishers B.V.
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-016-0752-2

A Robust Optimization Based Energy-Aware Virtual Network Function Placement Proposal for Small Cell 5G Networks with Mobile Edge Computing Capabilities

Author(s): Bego Blanco, Ianire Taboada, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Fidel Liberal
Published in: Mobile Information Systems, 2017, 2017, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1574-017X
Publisher: IOS Press
DOI: 10.1155/2017/2603410

Service Mapping and Orchestration Over Multi-Tenant Cloud-Enabled RAN

Author(s): Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Bego Blanco, Michail-Alexandros Kourtis, Ianire Taboada, George Xilouris, Ioannis Giannoulakis, Elisa Jimeno, Irena Trajkovska, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Emmanouil Kafetzakis, Javier Garcia Lloreda, Fidel Liberal, Alan Whitehead, Mick Wilson, Harilaos Koumaras
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 14/4, 2017, Page(s) 904-919, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2017.2767100

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

Author(s): Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui, Pablo Pavon-Marino
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters, 22/1, 2018, Page(s) 145-148, ISSN 1089-7798
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2760826

Book chapters (2)

Network Architecture and Essential Features for 5G: The SESAME Project Approach

Author(s): Leonardo Goratti, Cristina E. Costa, Jordi Perez-Romano, Oriol Sallent, Cristina Ruiz, August Betzler, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Seiamak Vahid, Karim M. Nasr, Babangida Abubakar, Alan Whitehead, Maria Belesioti, Ioannis Chochliouros
Published in: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, IFIP AICT 475, 2016, Page(s) 676-685, ISBN 978-3-319-44944-9
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44944-9_60

On learning mobility patterns in cellular networks

Author(s): J. Sánchez-Gonzalez, J. Pérez-Romero, R. Agusti and O. Sallent
Published in: IFIP AICT 475 (Proceedings of the AIAI-2016 Conference), 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-44943-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Switzerland