T. Taleb, Toward carrier cloud: Potential, challenges, and solutions, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, pp.80-91, 2014.
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A. By and . Operators, Network Functions Virtualization: An Introduction, Benefits, Enablers, Challenges, & Call for Action, 2012.

T. Taleb, M. Corici, C. Parada, A. Jamakovic, S. Ruffino et al., EASE: EPC as a Service to Ease Mobile Core Network, IEEE Network Magazine

A. Ksentini and T. Taleb, Light Mobile Core Networks for Machine Type Communications

T. Taleb and K. Samdanis, Ensuring Service Resilience in the EPS: MME Failure Restoration Case, 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2011, 2011.
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T. Taleb and A. Ksentini, On alleviating MTC overload in EPS, Elsevier J. on Ad Hoc Networks, pp.24-39, 2014.
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M. Scholler, M. Stiemerling, A. Ripke, and R. Bless, Resilient deployment of virtual network functions, 2013 5th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT), 2013.
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A. Kunz, T. Taleb, and S. Schmid, On Minimizing SGW/MME Relocations in LTE, Proc. ACM IWCMC'10, 2010.

T. Taleb and A. Ksentini, VECOS: A Vehicular Connection Steering Protocol, IEEE TRANS. on Vehicular Technology
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D. Tipper, T. Dahlberg, H. Shin, and C. Charnspripinyo, Providing fault tolerance in wireless access networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.40, issue.1, 2002.
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S. Pack, T. You, and T. Choi, Performance Analysis of Robust Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 for Fault Tolerant Mobile Services, IEICE Transactions on Communications, issue.5, 2004.

Y. Huang and M. Chuang, Fault tolerance for home agents in mobile IP, Computer Networks, vol.50, issue.18, 2006.
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Y. Lin, Per-user checkpointing for mobility database failure restoration, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol.4, issue.2, pp.189-194, 2005.

H. Hung, Y. Lin, N. Peng, and S. Sou, Connection failure detection mechanism of UMTS charging protocol, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.5, issue.5, pp.1180-1186, 2006.
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J. Lin and J. , An Efficient Fault Tolerant Approach for Mobile IP in Wireless Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol.2, issue.3, 2003.

J. Lin and M. Yang, Fault-Tolerant Design for Wide-area Mobile IPv6 Net-works, Journal of systems and Software, vol.82, issue.9, 2009.

P. Calhoun, Diameter Base Protocol, Network Working Group, RFC, vol.3588, 2003.
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S. Dixit, E. Yanmaz, and O. K. Tonguz, On the design of self-organized cellular wireless networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.43, issue.7, 2005.
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N. Mckeown, OpenFlow, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol.38, issue.2, pp.69-74, 2008.
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J. Batalle, On the Implementation of NFV over an OpenFlow Infrastructure: Routing Function Virtualization, 2013 IEEE SDN for Future Networks and Services (SDN4FNS), 2013.
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A. Basta, A Virtual SDN-Enabled LTE EPC Architecture: A Case Study for S-/P-Gateways Functions, 2013 IEEE SDN for Future Networks and Services (SDN4FNS), 2013.
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J. Kempf, Moving the mobile Evolved Packet Core to the cloud, 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2012.
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F. Yousef, J. Lessman, P. Loueiro, and S. Schmid, SoftEPC — Dynamic instantiation of mobile core network entities for efficient resource utilization, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2013.
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F. Machida, M. Kawato, and Y. Maeno, Redundant virtual machine placement for fault-tolerant consolidated server clusters, 2010 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2010, pp.32-39, 2010.
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T. Taleb and Y. Hadjadj, : a framework for integrating quality of security with quality of service, Wiley J. on Security & Communication Networks, pp.1462-1470, 2012.
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T. Taleb, G. Punz, and S. Schmid, Method for Handling Failure of a MME in a LTE/EPC Network, 2010.