Network Slicing: Recent Advances, Taxonomy, Requirements, and Open Research Challenges

Recent Advances and Research Challenges

Mobile social network in proximity: taxonomy, approaches and open challenges

PurposeRecent smart mobile devices are capable of letting users produce various digital content, and share/upload the content to many Social Network Services (SNS) directly via wireless network connections. The phenomenon has increased the number of people using mobile SNS applications. Although the applications have become more popular, mobile users have been restricted in the virtual communit...

Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges for Social Science Research

During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has been developing at a steady pace. During the last few years especially, the main initial technique, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), has been complemented by other related methods and techniques. The purpose of this article is to critically assess some main recent developments in this field. QCA and...

Small Cell Deployments: Recent Advances and Research Challenges

deployment scenarios are presented. These topics collectively represent the current trends in small cell deployments.

Intervention Research in Social Work: Recent Advances and Continuing Challenges

The purpose of this article is to review substantive and methodological advances in interventive research. Three substantive advances are discussed: (a) the growing use of a risk factor perspective, (b) the emergence of practice-relevant microsocial theories, and (c) the increased acceptance of structured treatment protocols and manual. In addition, three methodological developments are discuss...