Network Service Providers (NSPs) envisage to support the divergent and stringent
requirements of future services by instantiating these services as service chains, commonly …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) can help telecom operators to decouple Service
Functions (SFs) from specific hardware. Service Function Chains (SFCs) consisting of Virtual …

Network function virtualization (NFV) achieves cost-effective network service provisioning
through exploitation of virtualization and automation by decoupling network functions …

Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) opens us great opportunities for network
processing with higher resource efficiency and flexibility. In this respect, there is an …

Emerging technologies such as network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined
networking (SDN) provide a promising way to implement service function chain (SFC), a …

The emergence of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization
(NFV) facilitates policy-driven and dynamic service function chaining (SFC). In recent years …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has paved the way for the migration of Virtual Network
Functions (VNFs) into multi-tenant datacenters, lowering the barrier for the introduction of …

Embedding Service Function Chains (SFCs) into the network represents scheduling network
resources to provide user services. Embedding schemes are affected by many factors, such …

Abstract Service Function Chaining (SFC) enables dynamic and adaptive network service
provisioning. However, virtual infrastructure providers are reluctant to disclose SFC APIs and …

In Network Function Virtualization (NFV), to satisfy the Service Functions (SFs) requested by
a customer, service providers will composite a Service Function Chain (SFC) and embed it …