Series Editorial: Network Softwarization and Management

This series focuses on softwarization, management, and their integration in communication networks and services. “Network Softwarization” advocates for network architectures that separate the software implementing network functions, protocols and services from the hardware running them. “Network Management” aims to integrate fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security capabilities in the network and to support self-management features, integral automation, and autonomic capabilities, empowering the network with inbuilt cognition and intelligence. The critical role that software and management are increasingly playing in telecommunications is enabling unprecedented levels of abstraction, disaggregation, operation, integration, robustness, optimization, intelligence, precision delivery, programmability, and cost and complexity reduction in the network infrastructures and services. Such an approach is resulting in even greater attainment of non-functional characteristics (e.g., qualities of the operation of a network, rather than specific behaviors including flexibility, integrability, interoperability, operational guarantees, deployability, auditability and control, reliability, adaptability, elasticity, effectiveness, extensibility, automation and autonomicity).