A mechanism for configurable network service chaining and its implementation

G Xiong, Y Hu, J Lan, G Cheng - KSII Transactions on Internet and …, 2016 - koreascience.kr
Abstract Recently Service Function Chaining (SFC) is promising to innovate the network
service mode in modern networks. However, a feasible implementation of SFC is still difficult …

Enabling the SLA Management of Federated Network Services through Scaling Operations

J Baranda, J Mangues-Bafalluy, L Vettori… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Slices are deployed to continuously fulfill requirements from vertical industries. Thus, the
management of service level agreements (SLAs) is fundamental. Composite network …

Multi-objective deep reinforcement learning assisted service function chains placement

Y Bi, CC Meixner, M Bunyakitanon… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The study of Service Function Chains (SFCs) placement problem is crucial to support
services flexibly and use resources efficiently. Solutions should satisfy various Quality of …

Online orchestration of cross-edge service function chaining for cost-efficient edge computing

Z Zhou, Q Wu, X Chen - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing (EC) has quickly ascended to be the de-facto standard for hosting
emerging low-latency applications, as exemplified by intelligent video surveillance, Internet …

Cost optimization in security-aware service function chain deployment with diverse vendors

D Zheng, X Liu, W Tang, H Xu… - GLOBECOM 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frequent cyber-attacks force the service provider to employ security-aware service functions
(SFs) to accommodate client network requests. Thanks to virtualization techniques' maturity …

Distributed Asynchronous Service Provisioning in the Edge-Cloud Multi-tier Network

I Cohen, P Giaccone, CF Chiasserini - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11187, 2023 - arxiv.org
In an edge-cloud multi-tier network, datacenters provide services to mobile users, with each
service having specific latency constraints and computational requirements. Deploying such …

Order dependency-aware service function placement in service function chaining

H Baek, I Jang, H Ko, S Pack - 2017 International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In distributed network function virtualization (NFV) environments, the latency can be
significantly increased as the length of service function chain (SFC) increases. To reduce the …

Hierarchical multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for SFC placement on multiple domains

N Toumi, M Bagaa, A Ksentini - 2021 IEEE 46th Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is the process of decomposing a network service into
multiple functions that successively process packets to deliver the end-to-end service. In a …

A Distributed Architecture for Edge Service Orchestration with Guarantees

G Castellano, F Esposito, F Risso - arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05499, 2018 - arxiv.org
The Network Function Virtualization paradigm is attracting the interest of service providers,
that may greatly benefit from its flexibility and scalability properties. However, the diversity of …

Service function chaining resource allocation: A survey

Y Xie, Z Liu, S Wang, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00095, 2016 - arxiv.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a crucial technology for future Internet. It aims to
overcome the limitation of current deployment models which is rigid and static. Application of …