Network Service Chaining (NSC) is a service deployment concept that promises increased
flexibility and cost efficiency for future carrier networks. NSC has received considerable …

This papers describes a proof-of-concept implementation of the Service Function Chaining
Control Plane, exploiting the IETF Network Service Header approach. The proposed …

5G intends to use network slicing to support multiple vertical industries. The dynamic
resource sharing and diverse customer requirements bring new challenges towards service …

The automation of cross-organizational business processes bears great potential for
companies to extend their market reach, save time, cut costs and respond to customer …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been proposed as a paradigm to increase the
cost-efficiency, flexibility and innovation in network service provisioning. By leveraging IT …

A Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered sequence of network functions (NFs). With the
emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, NFs can be deployed as …

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

Service Function Chaining (SFC) paradigm consists in steering traffic flows through an
ordered set of Service Functions (SFs) so that to realize complex end to end services. SFC …

Service function chaining provides a new service deployment model that delivers the traffic
along the predefined logical paths of service functions with no regard of network topologies …

In this study, a novel subscriber aware dynamic service function chaining (SFC) framework
is developed by using open source software-defined networking (SDN) and network function …