Due to the emergence of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) paradigms, coupled with a hyper-connectivity communication paradigm, the "softwarization" of the Internet infrastructure and of its network management ...

SLA is a contract between service providers and consumers, mandating specific numerical target values which the service needs to achieve. For service providers, detecting and preventing SLA violation becomes very important to enhance customer trust and ...

Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT) continue to emerge as revolutionary paradigms to support wide range of real world scenarios. They promise benefits for increasing number of applications, including health, smart cities, smart homes, smart ...

Due to the emergence of a hyper-connectivity communication paradigm, the "softwarisation" of the Internet infrastructure and of its network management framework is gaining increasing popularity. Cloud computing helps supporting this evolution, together ...

In this work, we examine the technology acceptance of cloud computing by using the second iteration of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, from now on referred to as UTAUT2. UTAUT is a well established methodology widely used for the ...

In the last few years, Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) have been introduced in the telecommunications networks as a new way to design, deploy and manage networking services. Working together, they are able to ...