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 …

In practical, large-scale networks, services are requested by users across the globe, eg, for
video streaming. Services consist of multiple interconnected components such as …

5G stakeholders make every effort to efficiently handle the unprecedented services and
traffic demand. Particularly, Telco operators aim to deploy a cost effective network services …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) transforms traditional network functions (NFs) into
software through the virtualization technology, enabling easy deployment and management …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising network architecture that pushes network
control and mobile computing to the network edge. Recent studies propose to deploy MEC …

Abstract Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered list of dynamically deployed virtual
service/network functions (SFs). In a software defined SFC, Network Function Virtualization …

Along with the increasing demand for latency-sensitive services and applications,
Deterministic Network (DetNet) concept has been recently proposed to investigate …

Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) defines the creation of network services that consist
of an ordered set of service function. A multiple service function instances should be …

Network function virtualization (NFV) implements network functions as Virtual Network
Functions (VNFs) to address the challenges faced by traditional network infrastructures …

Enabling elastic scaling is the crucial advantage of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), of
which the common usage is Service Function Chain (SFC). But how to scale SFC elastically …