Network as a Service for Next Generation Internet

Dr. Qiang Duan is an associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University Abington College, USA. His general research interests includes data communications, computer networking, and the next generation Internet. His recent research projects focus on Software-Defined Networking, Network Virtualization, Network-as-a-Service, and Unified Network and Cloud Service Provisioning. Dr. Duan has more than 100 publications, including books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers. He is on the editorial boards for multiple international research journals and has served on the technical program committees for numerous international conferences.Dr. Shangguang Wang is an associate professor at the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China. Dr. Wang is Vice Chair (2015-) of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing, and has held posts as Program Co-Chair of IEEE/ACM ICFEC 2017, General Chair of EAI CollaborateCom 2016, General Chair of ICCSA 2016, Application Track Co-Chair of IEEE SCC 2015, Program Chair of IOV 2014 and Program Chair of SC2 2014. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Web Science and has published more than 100 journal/conference papers in the field.

• Chapter 1: Network-as-a-Service and network cloudification in the next generation InternetChapter 2: Methods and Infrastructure of Network-as-a-ServiceChapter 3: Flexible and dynamic Network-as-a-Service for next generation InternetChapter 4: Virtual deployment of virtual networks in Network as a ServiceChapter 5: Network service discovery, selection, and brokerageChapter 6: Service selection and recommendation in integrated network environmentChapter 7: Cloud networking evolutionChapter 8: Mobile Cloud Networking: future communication architecture for mobile cloudChapter 9: Composition of network and cloud service in next generation InternetChapter 10: NaaS-enabled service composition in SDN environmentChapter 11: Network-as-a-Service in software-defined networking for end-to-end quality of service provisioningChapter 12: Flow management and orchestration for virtualized network functions in software-defined networksChapter 13: On-demand network virtualization and provisioning services in SDN-driven cloud platformsChapter 14: GPU-based acceleration of SDN controllersChapter 15: Virtualisation and management of application service networksChapter 16: Context-as-a-Service (CAAS) platform for smart IoT applications