Provably efficient algorithms for traffic-sensitive SFC placement and flow routing

Y Mao, X Shang, Y Yang - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has the potential of cost-efficiency, manage-
convenience, and flexibility but meanwhile poses challenges for the service function chain …

Resource aware routing for service function chains in SDN and NFV-enabled network

J Pei, P Hong, K Xue, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Services …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networks (SDN),
Service Function Chain (SFC) has become a popular service in SDN and NFV-enabled …

A survey on service function chaining

D Bhamare, R Jain, M Samaka, A Erbad - Journal of Network and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cloud computing is gaining significant attention and virtualized datacenters are becoming
popular as a cost-effective infrastructure. The network services are transitioning from a host …

Service function chaining simplified

M Ghaznavi, N Shahriar, R Ahmed… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Middleboxes have become a vital part of modern networks by providing service functions
such as content filtering, load balancing and optimization of network traffic. An ordered …

Efficiently embedding service function chains with dynamic virtual network function placement in geo-distributed cloud system

J Pei, P Hong, K Xue, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networks (SDN) enable
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to place Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to achieve the …

Service function chaining in next generation networks: State of the art and research challenges

AM Medhat, T Taleb, A Elmangoush… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service function chaining is a network capability that provides support for application-driven-
networking through the ordered interconnection of service functions. The lifecycle …

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 …

Multiagent reinforcement-learning-aided service function chain deployment for internet of things

Y Zhu, H Yao, T Mai, W He, N Zhang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, the compelling applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) bring unexpected
economic benefits to our daily lives. But at the same time, it also poses huge challenges to …

A DRL-based service offloading approach using DAG for edge computational orchestration

MS Mekala, G Dhiman, G Srivastava… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge infrastructure and Industry 4.0 required services are offered by edge-servers (ESs)
with different computation capabilities to run social application's workload based on a …

Vertex-centric computation of service function chains in multi-domain networks

Q Zhang, X Wang, I Kim, P Palacharla… - 2016 IEEE netsoft …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computation of service function chains in multi-domain networks is critical for enabling the
wide deployment of network function visualization for providing end-to-end network services …