Service-Oriented Wireless Virtualized Networks: An Intelligent Resource Management Approach

It can be anticipated that the future wireless network will be composed of highly heterogeneous resources and experience explosively growing demands for mobile traffic services. Many challenges arise from a network management point of view regarding how to achieve efficient operation when utilizing heterogeneous resources for a large variety of services over a significant number of end users. Wireless network virtualization, which uses the idea of virtualizing wireless access and resources, has been proposed as the main evolution and is attracting increasing attention.