Editorial: Software-Defined and Virtualized Future Wireless Networks

Software-Defined and Virtualized Future Mobile and Wireless Networks: A Survey

With the proliferation of mobile demands and increasingly multifarious services and applications, mobile Internet has been an irreversible trend. Unfortunately, the current mobile and wireless network (MWN) faces a series of pressing challenges caused by the inherent design. In this paper, we extend two latest and promising innovations of Internet, software-defined networking and network virtua...

Software-defined and Virtualized Mobile Networks

Software defined wireless networks (SDWN): Part 1 [Guest Editorial]

he growing popularity of smart phones, tablet computers and mobile cloud services places an increasing demand for dynamic services from wireless networks. This demand creates new requirements for the network architecture, such as flexibility in management and configuration, adaptability and vendor-independence. To meet these requirements, software defined wireless network (SDWN) has been propos...

Software-defined and Virtualized Cellular Networks with M2M Communications

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications have attracted great attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, with recent advances in wireless network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN), we propose a novel framework for M2M communications in software-defined cellular networks with wireless network virtualization. In the proposed framework, according to different funct...

Gearing up support systems for software defined and virtualized networks