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Modeling Performance and Energy Efficiency of Virtualized Flexible Networks

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Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2017)

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We examine some aspects of modelling and control in modern telecommunication networks, in the light of their evolution toward a completely virtualised paradigm on top of a flexible physical infrastructure. The trade-off between performance indicators related to user satisfaction of services (e.g., in terms of perceived quality, delay and ease of the interaction) and the energy consumption induced on the physical infrastructure is considered with some attention. In this respect, we provide a discussion of potential problems and ways to face them, along with a short description of the approaches taken in some European project activities.

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    Raffaele Bolla, Franco Davoli & Jane Frances Pajo

  2. CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications) National Laboratory of Smart, Sustainable and Secure Internet Technologies and Infrastructures (S3ITI), Genoa, Italy

    Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Franco Davoli & Jane Frances Pajo

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Bolla, R., Bruschi, R., Davoli, F., Pajo, J.F. (2019). Modeling Performance and Energy Efficiency of Virtualized Flexible Networks. In: Obaidat, M., Ören, T., Rango, F. (eds) Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications . SIMULTECH 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 873. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01470-4_14

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