Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Nencioni, Gianfranco"

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    • A Fault-Tolerant and Consistent SDN Controller 

      Kamisinski, Andrzej; Gonzalez, Andres Javier; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Nencioni, Gianfranco (Chapter, 2016)
      Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new paradigm that promises to enhance network flexibility and innovation. However, operators need to thoroughly assess its advantages and threats before they can implement it. Robustness ...

    • Assessing the risk of violating SLA dependability requirements in software-defined networks 

      Kamisiński, Andrzej; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Gonzalez, Andres Javier; Nencioni, Gianfranco (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Dependability of computer and communication networks is an important aspect of the customer-provider relationship in the telecommunication industry. Considering the increasing interest in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) ...

    • Availability Modelling of Software-Defined Backbone Networks 

      Kamisinski, Andrzej; Gonzalez, Andres Javier; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Heegaard, Poul Einar (Chapter, 2016)
      Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to improve the programmability and flexibility of networks, but it may also bring new challenges that need to be explored. The main objective of this paper is to present a ...

    • Dependability of the NFV Orchestrator: State of the Art and Research Challenges 

      Gonzalez, Andres Javier; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Kamisinski, Andrzej; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Heegaard, Poul Einar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The introduction of network function virtualisation (NFV) represents a significant change in networking technology, which may create new opportunities in terms of cost efficiency, operations, and service provisioning. ...

    • Impact of SDN Controllers Deployment on Network Availability 

      Nencioni, Gianfranco; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Gonzalez, Andres Javier; Heegaard, Poul Einar; Kamisinski, Andrzej (Research report, 2016)
      Software-defined networking (SDN) promises to improve the programmability and flexibility of networks, but it may bring also new challenges that need to be explored. The purpose of this technical report is to assess how ...

    • Implementing the Availability Model of a Software-Defined Backbone Network in Möbius 

      Nencioni, Gianfranco; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Heegaard, Poul Einar (Research report, 2017)
      Software-defined networking (SDN) promises to im-prove the programmability and flexibility of networks, but it may bring also new challenges that need to be explored. One open issue is the quantitative ...

    • Including Failure Correlation in Availability Modeling of a Software-Defined Backbone Network 

      Nencioni, Gianfranco; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Heegaard, Poul Einar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Software-defined networking (SDN) promises to improve the programmability and flexibility of networks, but also brings new challenges that need to be explored. The main objective of this paper is to include failure correlation ...

    • The Isolation Concept in the 5G Network Slicing 

      Gonzalez, Andres J.; Ordonez-Lucena, Jose; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Xie, Min; Lopez, Diego R.; Grønsund, Pål R. (Chapter, 2020)
      The fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks shall host a number of tenants and provide services tailored to meet a wide range of requirements in terms of performance, dependability and security. Network slicing will be ...

    • Managed Dependability in Interacting Systems 

      Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Heegaard, Poul Einar; Wäfler, Jonas (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      AdigitalICTinfrastructuremustbeconsideredasasystemofsystemsin itself, but also in interaction with other critical infrastructures such as water distributions, transportation (e.g. Intelligent Transport Systems) and Smart ...

    • Modeling and Evaluating NFV-Enabled Network Services under Different Availability Modes 

      Tola, Besmir; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Jiang, Yuming (Chapter, 2019)
      Network and Telecom operators are continuously embracing the adoption of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) as a means to provide more agile, flexible and cost-efficient services. Many telecommunication services need ...

    • Modelling the dependability in Network Function Virtualisation 

      Lin, Wenqi (Master thesis, 2017)
      Network Function Virtualization has been brought up to allow the TSPs to have more possibilities and flexibilities to provision services with better load optimizing, energy utilizing and dynamic scaling. Network functions ...

    • Network-Aware Availability Modeling of an End-to-End NFV-Enabled Service 

      Tola, Besmir; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Helvik, Bjarne Emil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represents a key shift in nowadays network service provisioning by entailing higher flexibility, elasticity, and programmability of network services. Dependability is one of the main ...

    • Orchestration and Control in Software-Defined 5G Networks: Research Challenges 

      Nencioni, Gianfranco; Garroppo, Rosario G.; Gonzalez, Andres J.; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Procissi, Gregorio (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks promises to be a major step in the evolution of wireless technology. 5G is planned to be used in a very broad set of application scenarios. These scenarios have strict ...

    • SCORE: Exploiting Global Broadcasts to Create Offline Personal Channels for On-Demand Access 

      Nencioni, Gianfranco; Sastry, Nishanth; Tyson, Gareth; Badrinarayanan, Vijay; Karamshuk, Dmytro; Chandaria, Jigna; Crowcroft, Jon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      The last 5 years have seen a dramatic shift in media distribution. For decades, TV and radio were solely provisioned using push-based broadcast technologies, forcing people to adhere to fixed schedules. The introduction ...

    • Service availability in the NFV Virtualized Evolved Packet Core 

      Mahmood, Kashif; Gonzalez, Andres Javier; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Nencioni, Gianfranco; Heegaard, Poul Einar; Grønsund, Pål R. (Chapter, 2015)
      Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises to transform the way telecom providers design and operate networks and network services. Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) is one of the NFV use cases that has got most ...