. Huawei-technologies and . Co, 5G Network Architecture A High-Level Perspective, 2016.

T. Taleb and A. Ksentini, Gateway relocation avoidance-aware network function placement in carrier cloud, Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems, pp.341-346, 2013.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00911284

A. Ksentini, On using SDN in 5G: the controller placement problem, Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp.1-6, 2016.

M. Bagaa, T. Taleb, and A. Ksentini, Service-aware network function placement for efficient traffic handling in carrier cloud, 2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp.2402-2407, 2014.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01097861

T. Taleb, M. Bagaa, and A. Ksentini, User mobility-aware virtual network function placement for virtual 5G network infrastructure, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp.3879-3884, 2015.

J. Liu, Y. Shi, L. Zhao, Y. Cao, W. Sun et al., Joint placement of controllers and gateways in SDN-Enabled 5G-Satellite Integrated Network, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol.36, issue.2, pp.221-232, 2018.

M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, and J. Pan, Enduring Node Failures through Resilient Controller Placement for Software Defined Networks, Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp.1-7, 2016.

M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, R. Ruby, and J. Pan, Capacity-aware and Delay-guaranteed Resilient Controller Placement for Software-Defined WANs, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2018.

, 3GPP: TS 23.502-Procedures for the 5G System, 3GPP: TS 23.501-System Architecture for the 5G System; Stage, vol.2

, NGMN Alliance: Perspectives on Vertical Industries and Implications for 5G, 5G Americas: 5G Network Transformation. Tech. rep., 5G Americas, vol.12, 2016.

I. Parvez, A. Rahmati, I. Guvenc, A. I. Sarwat, and H. Dai, A survey on low latency towards 5G: RAN, core network and caching solutions, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol.20, issue.4, pp.3098-3130, 2018.

A. Tawbeh, H. Safa, and A. R. Dhaini, A hybrid SDN/NFV architecture for future LTE networks, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp.1-6, 2017.