IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Network and Service analytics can harness the immense stream of operational data from clouds, to services, to social and communication networks. In the era of big data and connected devices of all varieties, analytics and machine learning have found ways ...

As cybersecurity detectors increasingly rely on machine learning mechanisms, attacks to these defenses escalate as well. Supervised classifiers are prone to adversarial evasion, and existing countermeasures suffer from many limitations. Most solutions ...

Many network operations, ranging from attack investigation and mitigation to traffic management, require answering network-wide flow queries in seconds. Although flow records are collected at each router, using available traffic capture utilities, ...

Video streaming is the killer application of the Internet today. In this article, we address the problem of real-time, passive Quality-of-Experience (QoE) monitoring of HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming (HAS), from the Internet-Service-Provider (ISP) ...

Wireless network technologies are becoming more and more popular. Because of this, important parts of the wireless spectrum become overloaded. Static spectrum allocation, which has been the norm for decades, is not suitable anymore. To maintain the high ...

Tuning configurations of Spark jobs is not a trivial task. State-of-the-art auto-tuning systems are based on iteratively running workloads with different configurations. During the optimization process, the relevant features are explored to find good ...

Containers provide a lightweight runtime environment for microservices applications while enabling better server utilization. Automatic optimal allocation of CPU pins to the containers serving specific workloads can help to minimize the completion time of ...

Enterprise systems often produce a large volume of logs to record runtime status and events. Anomaly detection from system logs is crucial for service management and system maintenance. Most existing log-based anomaly detection methods use log event <...

With the increasing network topology complexity and continuous evolution of the new wireless technology, it is challenging to address the network service outage with traditional methods. In the long-term evolution (LTE) networks, a large number of base ...

Network dimensioning is a critical task for cellular operators to avoid degraded user experience and unnecessary upgrades of network resources with changing mobile traffic patterns. For this purpose, smart network planning tools require accurate cell and ...

Future mobile networks will enable the massive deployment of mobile multimedia applications anytime and anywhere. In this context, mobility management schemes, such as handover and proactive multimedia service migration, will be essential to improve ...

AIM: Having a reliable prediction model of radio signal strength is an essential tool for planning and designing a radio network. Given a geographic region, and associated power estimates linked to the transmitter placements, our objective is to develop ...

The deployment, operation and maintenance of complex cellular networks are managed autonomously by multiple concurrently executing Self-Organizing Network (SON) functions with dedicated objectives, that can often negatively impact the functioning of each ...

News creation and consumption has been changing since the advent of social media. An estimated 2.95 billion people in 2019 used social media worldwide. The widespread of the Coronavirus COVID-19 resulted with a tsunami of social media. Most platforms were ...

While social media has been proved as an exceptionally useful tool to interact with other people and massively and quickly spread helpful information, its great potential has been ill-intentionally leveraged as well to distort political elections and ...

With the rapid development of Mobile Internet, social media platforms explosively grow and greatly facilitate people to obtain and exchange information. Since any users can post arbitrary information on social media, some people with ulterior motives try ...

With network slicing, physical networks are partitioned into multiple virtual networks tailored to serve different types of service with their specific requirements. In order to optimize the utilization of network resources for delay-critical applications,...

It is widely acknowledged that network slicing can tackle the diverse usage scenarios and connectivity services that the 5G-and-beyond system needs to support. To guarantee performance isolation while maximizing network resource utilization under dynamic ...

Network slicing is a primary Fifth-Generation (5G) mobile networking technology to create virtualised and softwarised logical networks for various vertical businesses with diverging Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Meanwhile, there is a clear gap in ...

Slices were introduced in 5G to enable the co-existence of applications with different requirements on a single infrastructure. Slices may be delay-constrained for mission-critical applications such as Tactile Internet applications. When delay-constrained ...

5G and beyond need to meet stringent requirements of latency, reliability, and support for heterogeneous devices. However, the existing wireless network architecture is limited to fulfill these constraints. Cloud radio access network, along with network ...

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has promoted the implementation of network functions from expensive hardwares to software middleboxes. These software middleboxes, also called Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), are executed on switch-connected ...

In network function virtualization, a service function chain (SFC) specifies a sequence of virtual network functions that user traffic has to traverse to realize a network service. The problem of SFC orchestration has been extensively studied in the ...

The problem of optimally deploying a virtual network onto a substrate physical network is referred to as Virtual Network Embedding (VNE). In general, this embedding is requested by a customer to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), which performs the VNE ...

Most of existing virtual network embedding (VNE) algorithms only consider how to construct virtual networks more efficiently on a physical infrastructure, without considering the possibility that the constructed virtual networks may be further virtualized ...

A novel framework, Medium-Term Disruption Tolerant Software Defined Network (MDT-SDN), is proposed to handle medium-term disruptions of the order 10 seconds to 6 minutes. Such medium-term disruptions are crucial for the next generation wireless networks ...

Real time resource usage prediction is an important part of resource provisioning in a cloud data centre. As cloud workloads vary dynamically, effective resource provisioning requires prediction of future resource usage trends. The problem is highly ...

High-demanding transfers of extremely large amounts of data have been increasingly supported by the bandwidth reservation services in dedicated high-performance networks (HPNs). To use the bandwidth reservation service, a user needs to initialize a ...

Cyber foraging has been shown to be especially effective for augmenting low-power Internet-of-Thing (IoT) devices by offloading video processing tasks to nearby edge/cloud computing servers. Factors such as dynamic network conditions, concurrent user ...

Internet of Things (IoT) platforms use a large number of low-cost resource constrained devices and generates millions of short-flows. In-network processing is gaining popularity day by day to handle IoT applications and services. However, traditional ...