Balancing the migration of virtual network functions with replications in data centers

F Carpio, A Jukan, R Pries - NOMS 2018-2018 IEEE/IFIP …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is enabling flexibility, programmability
and implementation of traditional network functions into generic hardware, in form of the so …

VNF-P: A model for efficient placement of virtualized network functions

H Moens, F De Turck - 10th international conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an upcoming paradigm where network
functionality is virtualized and split up into multiple building blocks that can be chained …

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 …

Machine learning for dynamic resource allocation in network function virtualization

S Schneider, NP Satheeschandran… - 2020 6th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) proposes to replace physical middleboxes with more
flexible virtual network functions (VNFs). To dynamically adjust to ever-changing traffic …

RABA: Resource-aware backup allocation for a chain of virtual network functions

J Zhang, Z Wang, C Peng, L Zhang… - IEEE INFOCOM 2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) turns a sequence of network functions on hardwares
into a service chain of virtual network functions (VNFs) provisioned on virtual machines or …

Automation and multi-objective optimization of virtual network embedding

P Martinez-Julia, VP Kafle… - 2021 IFIP/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for automated management is continuously increasing, especially with the advent
of network virtualization and slicing technologies. However, finding the optimum …

On the scaling of virtualized network functions

W Rankothge, H Ramalhinho… - 2019 IFIP/IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offering Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) as a service requires automation of cloud
resource management to allocate cloud resources for the VNFs dynamically. Most of the …

Balancing delay and cost in virtual network function placement and chaining

A Leivadeas, M Falkner, I Lambadaris… - 2018 4th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has proliferated the way network services are offered
to the end users. Individual network functions are decoupled from expensive and dedicated …

Virtual network function placement optimization with deep reinforcement learning

R Solozabal, J Ceberio, A Sanchoyerto… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) introduces a new network architecture framework that
evolves network functions, traditionally deployed over dedicated equipment, to software …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic SFC placement with parallelized VNFs in Data Center Networks: A DRL-based approach

J Jia, J Hua - ICT Express, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology can tie together a set of Virtual
Network Functions (VNFs) as a Service Function Chain (SFC). Although NFV is a promising …