• Intent-driven autonomous network and service management in future cellular networks: A structured literature review 

      Mehmood, Kashif; Kralevska, Katina; Palma, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Intent-driven networks are an essential stepping stone in the evolution of network and service management towards a truly autonomous paradigm. User centric intents provide an abstracted means of impacting the design, ...
    • Knowledge-based Intent Modeling for Next Generation Cellular Networks 

      Mehmood, Kashif; Kralevska, Katina; Palma, David (Chapter, 2023)
      Intent-based networking (IBN) facilitates the representation of consumer expectations in a declarative and domain-independent form. However, mapping intents to service and resource models remains an open challenge. IBN ...
    • Local voting: A new distributed bandwidth reservation algorithm for 6TiSCH networks 

      Vergados, Dimitrios; Kralevska, Katina; Jiang, Yuming; Michalas, Angelos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The IETF 6TiSCH working group fosters the adaptation of IPv6-based protocols into Internet of Things by introducing the 6TiSCH Operation Sublayer (6top). The 6TiSCH architecture integrates the high reliability and low-energy ...
    • Medical students' perceptions of a blockchain-based decentralized work history and credentials portfolio: Qualitative feasibility study 

      Hasselgren, Anton; Kralevska, Katina; Gligoroski, Danilo; Faxvaag, Arild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background: Increased digitization of health care might challenge some of the trust functions that are established in a traditional health care system. We have, with the concept of VerifyMed, developed a decentralized ...
    • Mission-Critical Public Safety Networking: An Intent-Driven Service Orchestration Perspective 

      Mehmood, Kashif; Palma, David; Kralevska, Katina (Chapter, 2022)
      Intent-based networking (IBN) provides a promising approach for managing networks and orchestrating services in beyond 5th Generation (B5G) deployments using modern service-based architectures. Public safety (PS) services ...
    • Network Slicing in Beyond 5G: Implementation, Isolation, and Coexistence 

      Esmaeily, Ali (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:407, Doctoral thesis, 2023)
      The contemporary landscape of telecommunications is defined by the advent of Fifth Generation (5G) and the tantalizing promise of Beyond 5G (B5G) networks. 5G and B5G networks are the keys to fulfilling a massive number ...
    • Network Traffic Driven Storage Repair 

      Gligoroski, Danilo; Kralevska, Katina; Jensen, Rune Erlend; Simonsen, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Recently we constructed an explicit family of locally repairable and locally regenerating codes. Their existence was proven by Kamath et al. but no explicit construction was given. Our design is based on HashTag codes that ...
    • Practical Functional Regenerating Codes for Broadcast Repair of Multiple Nodes 

      Mital, Nitish; Kralevska, Katina; Ling, Cong; Gündüz, Deniz (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      A code construction and repair scheme for optimal functional regeneration of multiple node failures is presented, which is based on stitching together short MDS codes on carefully chosen sets of points lying on a linearized ...
    • SDN - a crucial security component towards 5G 

      Førland, Mathias Kjølleberg (Master thesis, 2019)
      Den femte generasjonen (5G) av mobilkommunikasjonssystemer forventes å bli kommersielt lansert i 2020 og forutses som en banebrytende teknologi som blant annet muliggjør brukstilfeller for kritisk infrastruktur som autonome ...
    • Secure Communication with WireGuard – VPN-as-a-Service in Beyond 5G 

      Kielland, Sondre Sørensen (Master thesis, 2022)
      Innføring av skivedeling i 5G nettverk åpner for at vertikale virksomheter kan utvikle og benytte sine tjenester ved siden av hverandre i telenett. Sammenliknet med tidligere generasjons mobilnettverk, søker 5G å kunne ...
    • Secure Service Implementation with Slice Isolation and WireGuard 

      Kielland, Sondre; Esmaeily, Ali; Kralevska, Katina; Gligoroski, Danilo (Chapter, 2022)
      Network slicing enables the provision of services for different verticals over a shared infrastructure. Nevertheless, security is still one of the main challenges when sharing resources. In this paper, we study how WireGuard ...
    • Slicing Scheduling for Supporting Critical Traffic in Beyond 5G 

      Esmaeily, Ali; Kralevska, Katina; Mahmoodi, Toktam (Chapter, 2022)
      One of the most challenging services fifth-generation (5G) mobile network is designed to support, is the critical services in-need of very low latency, and/or high reliability. It is now clear that such critical services ...
    • Small-Scale 5G Testbeds for Network Slicing Deployment: A Systematic Review 

      Esmaeily, Ali; Kralevska, Katina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Developing specialized cloud-based and open-source testbeds is a practical approach to investigate network slicing functionalities in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks. This paper provides a comprehensive review ...
    • SoK of Used Cryptography in Blockchain 

      Raikwar, Mayank; Gligoroski, Danilo; Kralevska, Katina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The underlying fundaments of blockchain are cryptography and cryptographic concepts that provide reliable and secure decentralized solutions. Although many recent papers study the use-cases of blockchain in different ...
    • Towards 5G network slice isolation with WireGuard and Open Source MANO 

      Haga, Simen (Master thesis, 2020)
      Å støtte vertikale industri segmenter og tjeneste-utvikling har vært en prioritet under utviklingen av 5G mobilnettet. Ved hjelp av nye business modeller og teknologier som Virtuelle Nettverksfunksjoner og Programvaredefinerte ...
    • Towards Optimal Distributed Node Scheduling in a Multihop Wireless Network through Local Voting 

      Vergados, Dimitrios; Amelina, Natalia; Jiang, Yuming; Kralevska, Katina; Granichin, Oleg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      In a multihop wireless network, it is crucial but challenging to schedule transmissions in an efficient and fair manner. In this paper, a novel distributed node scheduling algorithm, called Local Voting, is proposed. This ...
    • Transient Performance Modelling of 5G Slicing with Mixed Numerologies for Smart Grid Traffic 

      Mendis, Handunneththi V. Kalpanie; Heegaard, Poul Einar; Casares-Giner, Vicente; Li, Frank Yong; Kralevska, Katina (Chapter, 2021)
      Network slicing enabled by fifth generation (5G) systems has the potential to satisfy diversified service requirements from different vertical industries. As a typical vertical industry, smart distribution grid poses new ...
    • VerifyMed - Application of blockchain technology to improve trust in virtualized healthcare services 

      Rensaa, Jens-Andreas Hanssen (Master thesis, 2020)
      Helsevesenet går mot økt bruk av digitale helsetjenester. Ved å bruke slike tjenester kan pasienter møte helsepersonell ved bruk av nettbaserte applikasjoner, for eksempel via digitale konsultasjoner på video eller chat. ...
    • VerifyMed-A blockchain platform for transparent trust in virtualized healthcare: Proof-of-concept 

      Hanssen Rensaa, Jens-Andreas; Gligoroski, Danilo; Kralevska, Katina; Hasselgren, Anton; Faxvaag, Arild (Chapter, 2020)
      Patients living in a digitized world can now interact with medical professionals through online services such as chat applications, video conferencing or indirectly through consulting services. These applications need to ...
    • Web3 and Blockchain for Modernizing the Reseller Market 

      Frøland, Håkon Isaksen; Palm, Edward; Kralevska, Katina; Gligoroski, Danilo (Chapter, 2023)
      This paper presents a proof-of-concept (PoC) that leverages Web3 technology, specifically blockchain and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), to create a secure, transparent, and fair reseller market without the need for a trusted ...