SDN/NFV-Driven 6G and IoT Network Era
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2052
Special Issue Editors
Interests: UAV communications; wired and wireless resource allocation
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2. The School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Interests: radio resource management in B5G and 6G; massive access techniques; air-and-ground integrated networks; convex optimization and graph theory
Interests: SDN; cyber physical systems; security; smart cities; deep learning; blockchain
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) are key enablers towards network softwarization, which is recognized as one dominant attribute of 6G networks looking forward to the 2030s. Many elements of 6G networks and their specific hardware can be fully softwarized and virtualized. Consequently, various services and novel applications can be developed and deployed. Internet of Things (IoT) is one dominant application branch in 6G-enhanced massive Machine Type of Communication (emMTC) scenarios, and it has emerged as revolutionary for the development of futuristic network services and applications.
Given the strong interest in both industry and academia in the softwarization of 6G network and its IoT application, this Special Issue aims to collate research on SDN/NFV-driven 6G networks and IoT. There are many interesting and topical challenges that need to be addressed by the scientific research community.
The list of potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Management of SDIs (Software-Defined Infrastructures) for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- APIs and management protocols for 6G networks and IoT application;
- Virtualization of resources, services and functions in SDN and NFV for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Management of software-defined datacenters for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Efficient management of cloud computing infrastructures for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Resource management of SDN- or NFV-based systems for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Network slicing for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- SDN control plane optimizations for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Network softwarization for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Softwarized edge cloud infrastructures for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Network management at the edge for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Service Function Chains (SFCs) modeling and representation for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Dynamic migration of network functions in SDN- or NFV-based systems for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Efficient network and service monitoring of SDN or NFV for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Dynamic resource scaling based on user mobility in SDN- and NFV-based systems for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- QoS/QoE management and control in softwarized networks for 6G networks and IoT applications;
- Applying AI technologies in softwarized networks for 6G networks and IoT applications.
Dr. Hongtao Cao
Dr. Daosen Zhai
Prof. Dr. Neeraj Kumar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SDN
- NFV
- 6G networks
- IoT
- emMTC
