Cost-aware placement and chaining of service function chain with VNF instance sharing

H Guo, Y Wang, Z Li, X Qiu, H An… - NOMS 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an important shift in telecommunication service
provisioning. It enables the decoupling of network element functions and dedicated …

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 …

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 …

Placement of dynamic service function chains in partially VNF-enabled networks

A Allahvirdi, S Yousefi… - Telecommunication …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging approach to overcome the
limitations of proprietary network hardware appliances. Under the paradigm of NFV, network …

Cost and availability-aware vnf selection and placement for network services in nfv

Y Alahmad, A Agarwal… - … Symposium on Networks …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a growing computing paradigm for rapid and
economical provisioning of networking services (NSs). In NFV, NS is provided through a set …

Optimized service chain placement using genetic algorithm

MA Khoshkholghi, J Taheri… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology to consolidate network
functions onto high volume storages, servers and switches located anywhere in the network …

cost-and-QOS-based NFV service function chain mapping mechanism

Y Li, L Gao, S Xu, Q Ou, X Yuan, F Qi… - NOMS 2020-2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology decouples network functions from the
proprietary hardware by using generalized equipment and software, which lowers the cost of …

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 …

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 …

A multi-objective heuristic for the optimization of virtual network function chain placement

S Lange, A Grigorjew, T Zinner… - … Congress (ITC 29), 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) paradigm offers network operators benefits in
terms of cost efficiency, vendor independence, as well as flexibility and scalability. However …