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

The adoption of Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking
technologies allow network infrastructure operator flexibly orchestrating resources to provide …

Service function (SF) chaining enables network operators and infrastructure providers to
flexibly orchestrate virtualized network functions (NFs) at various places on software defined …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an important shift in telecommunication service
provisioning. It enables the decoupling of network element functions and dedicated …

Through network function virtualization (NFV), telecom providers aim to flexibly re-use
generic-purpose hardware to provide services on-demand and in an agile way. Service …

Service Function Chaining (SFC) can be a basic deployment unit that composes a chaining
order of required network functions to provide a network service. With the proliferation of …

With the development of network technology such as software-defined network (SDN) and
network function virtualization (NFV), Internet service providers (ISPs) are increasingly …

This paper investigates the slice-based service function chain embedding (SBSFCE)
problem, which is to embed the service function chains (SFCs) of flows from different slices …

We address the problem of embedding service chains consisting of a sequence of virtual
network functions (VNF) for 5G slices, considering diversified slice requirements. We …

This paper proposes a set of algorithms to extend initially deployed Virtualized Network
Functions Forwarding Graphs (VNF-FG or Service Function Chains-SFCs) previously …