Energy-efficient virtual network function placement in telecom networks

Z Xu, X Zhang, S Yu, J Zhang - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging network architecture, which decouples
the software implementation of network functions from the underlying hardware. Telecom …

Near-optimal energy-efficient algorithm for virtual network function placement

X Zhang, Z Xu, L Fan, S Yu, Y Qu - IEEE Transactions on Cloud …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To accommodate heterogeneous and sophisticated network services, Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) is invented as a hopeful networking technology. The most distinct …

Energy-saving and resource-efficient algorithm for virtual network function placement with network scaling

M Chen, Y Sun, H Hu, L Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an significant paradigm change in network service provisioning, network function
virtualization (NFV) can accommodate sophisticated and heterogeneous network services …

Power-aware virtual network function placement and routing using an abstraction technique

A Varasteh, M De Andrade… - 2018 IEEE Global …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is very promising for efficient provisioning of
network services and is attracting a lot of attention. NFV can be implemented in commercial …

Virtual network function placement for service function chaining with minimum energy consumption

MA Raayatpanah, T Weise - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technique to improve the performance
of enterprise networks. This technique moves packet processing from hardware …

Resource-efficient virtual network function placement in operator networks

X Song, X Zhang, S Yu, S Jiao… - GLOBECOM 2017-2017 …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging network resource utilization approach
which decouples network functions from proprietary hardware. To accommodate Service …

A power efficient and robust virtual network functions placement problem

A Marotta, A Kassler - 2016 28th International Teletraffic …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reducing the CAPEX and OPEX is a major concern for Telecom Operators (TOs): to this
extent, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been considered a key aspect to virtualize …

Cost-efficient virtual network function placement and traffic steering

Y Liu, J Pei, P Hong, D Li - ICC 2019-2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benefiting from Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Service Function Chain (SFC) that is
composed of a set of ordered Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) has become a popular …

Traffic-aware and energy-efficient vNF placement for service chaining: Joint sampling and matching approach

C Pham, NH Tran, S Ren, W Saad… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising approach for providing elastic
network functions, it faces several challenges in terms of adaptation to diverse network …

Machine learning for performance-aware virtual network function placement

DM Manias, M Jammal, H Hawilo… - 2019 IEEE Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing demand for data connectivity, network service providers are faced with the
task of reducing their capital and operational expenses while simultaneously improving …