Virtual network function placement optimization with deep reinforcement learning

R Solozabal, J Ceberio, A Sanchoyerto… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
placement of demanded network services in the NFV infrastructure. The virtual network
function placement and network … the restrictions of the network infrastructure and the services …

Virtual network functions placement and routing optimization

B Addis, D Belabed, M Bouet… - … on Cloud Networking  …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… latency and computing load can be a function of the demands traffic, VNFs can be … NFV
network model suitable for ISP operations. We define the generic VNF chain routing optimization

Automated function placement and online optimization of network functions virtualization

X Chen, W Ni, IB Collings, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of chained networkplacement and online optimization of VMs, which is able to asymptotically
optimally process and route network service chains in real-time, adapting to the network

Joint optimization of chain placement and request scheduling for network function virtualization

Q Zhang, Y Xiao, F Liu, JCS Lui, J Guo… - 2017 IEEE 37th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… To jointly optimize the performance of NFV, we propose a priority-… network congestions
(reflected by packet loss rate) and job rejection rate. We jointly optimize VNF chain placement

Near optimal placement of virtual network functions

R Cohen, L Lewin-Eytan, JS Naor… - 2015 IEEE Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… From the theoretical point of view, the modeling of our setting introduces a new type of
optimization problems, combining network function setup costs, connectivity costs of the clients, …

A fix-and-optimize approach for efficient and large scale virtual network function placement and chaining

MC Luizelli, WL da Costa Cordeiro, LS Buriol… - Computer …, 2017 - Elsevier
… To the best of our knowledge, network function placement and chaining has not been
investigated before the inception of NFV, eg for planning and deployment of physical middleboxes. …

On the theory of function placement and chaining for network function virtualization

J Zhang, W Wu, JCS Lui - … symposium on mobile ad hoc networking and …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
function placement and chaining problem, relax it to a linear … [9, 10], so that the function
placement and chaining can be done … an integer optimization for the function placement and …

Mobile core network virtualization: A model for combined virtual core network function placement and topology optimization

A Baumgartner, VS Reddy… - … conference on Network …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… core network function type is derived from the optimization result … placement options for the
pre-defined virtual core network … of the virtual network topology search within the optimization, …

Optimal placement of virtual network functions in software defined networks: A survey

S Demirci, S Sagiroglu - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
… solutions, a review of state-of-the-art works that consider cost, energy consumption, latency,
and network load optimization, and a comparison of the studies based on the developed …

Energy cost optimization in dynamic placement of virtualized network function chains

B Kar, EHK Wu, YD Lin - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… issue in the network function virtualization network. We proposed an energy-saving model
using an M/M/c queuing network. We formulated an optimization problem to minimize the total …