To deploy new or to deploy more?: an online SFC deployment scheme at network edge

Z Yuan, L Luo, D Guo, DCK Wong… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service function chaining (SFC) dynamically links multiple virtual network functions (VNFs)
to provide flexible and scalable network services for network entities and users …

GCN-TD: A learning-based approach for service function chain deployment on the fly

P Pan, Q Fan, S Wang, X Li, J Li… - GLOBECOM 2020-2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a promising paradigm for transforming
network functions from dedicated hardware to software middleboxes, which can …

A parallel placement approach for service function chain using deep reinforcement learning

H Chai, J Zhang, Z Wang, J Shi… - 2019 IEEE 5th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables service flexibility and cost reduction by
replacing traditional hardware middle-boxes with Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) running …

Drl-sfcp: Adaptive service function chains placement with deep reinforcement learning

T Wang, Q Fan, X Li, X Zhang, Q Xiong… - ICC 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm that network functions can be
deployed on commodity servers instead of dedicated servers to enhance the resource …

Drl-deploy: adaptive service function chains deployment with deep reinforcement learning

X Wei, Y Sheng, L Li, C Zhou - 2021 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function
virtualization (NFV), the service function chain (SFC) has become a popular paradigm for …

DRL-D: revenue-aware online service function chain deployment via deep reinforcement learning

Q Fan, P Pan, X Li, S Wang, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm where network functions are
migrated from dedicated hardware appliances onto software middleboxes to promote …

NFVdeep: Adaptive online service function chain deployment with deep reinforcement learning

Y Xiao, Q Zhang, F Liu, J Wang, M Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
With the evolution of network function virtualization (NFV), diverse network services can be
flexibly offered as service function chains (SFCs) consisted of different virtual network …

The intelligent multi‐domain service function chain deployment: Architecture, challenges and solutions

C Zhang, X Wang, A Dong, Y Zhao… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Network function virtualization (NFV) technology achieves flexible service deployment by
replacing the middleboxes with virtual network functions (VNFs). In NFV, a set of VNFs are …

[HTML][HTML] Edge intelligence for service function chain deployment in NFV-enabled networks

MA Khoshkholghi, T Mahmoodi - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
With evolution of network function virtualization (NFV), network services can be provided as
service function chains (SCs), each consisting of multiple virtual network functions (VNFs) …

Energy-efficient VNF deployment for graph-structured SFC based on graph neural network and constrained deep reinforcement learning

QI Siyu, LI Shuopeng, LIN Shaofu… - 2021 22nd Asia …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV), which decouples network functions from hardware
and transforms them into hardware-independent Virtual Network Functions (VNF), is a …