Pawani Porambage

A Comprehensive Analysis on Network Slicing for Smart Hospital Applications

November 17, 2023
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Network slicing (NS) is a utilitarian technology that enables heterogeneous smart use cases in Fifth Generation (5G) and beyond networks. Smart hospitals require NS to realize its applications with diverse network requirements, which can not facilitate via traditional networks in hospital environments. NS can be performed under different strategies based on dynamicity, ownership, and application. […]

Proof-of-Monitoring (PoM): A Novel ConsensusMechanism for Blockchain-based Secure ServiceLevel Agreement Management

February 1, 2023
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AIn the current 5th Generation (5G) networkingparadigm, the enforcement of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)is a non-trivial measure to ensure the scope and the qual-ity of services and standards between tenants and serviceproviders (SPs). On top of this, Secure Service Level Agree-ments (SSLA) are introduced to ensure that SPs deliver themost critical and required security-related standards […]

Robust and Resilient Federated Learning for Securing Future Networks

June 7, 2022
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Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are widely adopted in the telecommunication industry, especially to automate beyond 5G networks. Federated Learning (FL) recently emerged as a distributed ML approach that enables localized model training to keep data decentralized to ensure data privacy. In this paper, we identify the applicability of FL for securing […]

Federated Learning based Anomaly Detection as an Enabler for Securing Network and Service Management Automation in Beyond 5G Networks

June 7, 2022
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Network automation is a necessity in order to meet the unprecedented demand in the future networks and zero touch network architecture is proposed to cater such requirements. Closed-loop and artificial intelligence are key enablers in this proposed architecture in critical elements such as security. Apart from the arising privacy concerns, machine learning models can also […]

Blockchain-based Network Slice Broker to Facilitate Factory-as-a-Service

May 31, 2022
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The novel concept of Factory-as-a-Service (FaaS) allows the agility of adapting the manufacturing process by identifying the industry’s supply chain and user requirements. To cater to FaaS, flexibility in networking and cloud services is a must. 5G network slice broker is a third-party mediator that caters to networking resource demand from clients to the service […]

Fog Computing and Blockchain-Based Security Service Architecture for 5G Industrial IoT-Enabled Cloud Manufacturing

February 1, 2022
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Recent evolution of the industrial Internet of Things empowers the classical manufacturing model with cloud computing integration for Industry 4.0. Cloud integration advances the capabilities of manufacturing systems with cloud-based controlling and real-time process monitoring, which is renowned as cloud manufacturing (CM). However, cloud integration exposes the entire manufacturing ecosystem to a new set of […]

AI and 6G security: Opportunities and challenges

June 8, 2021
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While 5G is well-known for network cloudification with micro-service based architecture, the next generation networks or the 6G era is closely coupled with intelligent network orchestration and management. Hence, the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is immense in the envisioned 6G paradigm. However, the alliance between 6G and AI may also be a double-edged sword […]

Performance analysis of local 5G operator architectures for industrial internet

October 18, 2020
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5G calls for a network architecture that ensures ultraresponsive and ultrareliable communication links, in addition to the high degree of flexibility and customization required by different vertical sectors. The novel concept called local 5G networks enables a versatile set of stakeholders to operate 5G networks within their premises with guaranteed quality and reliability to complement […]

Micro-Operator driven Local 5G Network Architecture for Industrial Internet

April 15, 2019
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In addition to the high degree of flexibility and customization required by different vertical sectors, 5G calls for a network architecture that ensures ultra-responsive and ultra-reliable communication links. The novel concept called micro-operator (uO) enables a versatile set of stakeholders to operate local 5G networks within their premises with a guaranteed quality and reliability to […]