Download or read book 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft) written by IEEE Staff and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NetSoft is aiming at addressing Softwarization of networks and systemic trends concerning the convergence of Cloud Computing, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) In particular, SDN, NFV and network programmability are going to become the main enablers of the 5G infrastructures, which will span from high data rate fixed mobile services to the Internet of Things This will certainly accelerate the digital transformation that all the industry is witnessing New service models and new value chains are to be developed, leading to new business models and significant socio economic impact NetSoft will shed light on the fundamental technology components and systems for SDN NFV infrastructures, clouds edges and any sort of network services in order to fully exploit its potential for the efficiently handling of heterogeneous resources across wire and wireless networks and datacenter domains and for easy and fast deployment of new ICT services