The Internet's original static services have been superseded by rich multimedia services with
stringent end‐to‐end quality‐of‐service requirements. Additionally, there has been a trend …

Edge-Cloud Computing Industrial Internet of Things (ECIIoT) is composed of edge and cloud
nodes with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices to get the Service Function Chain …

The growing complexity of large-scale systems raises concerns about their effectiveness
and manageability. New approaches to system design, use, and management address …

Network function (NF) virtualization is a promising way for service providers to improve
configurability of the offered network services. First, NFs and their corresponding flows can …

Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged as an innovative network
architecture paradigm that uses IT virtualization technology to abstract the network node …

Network function virtualization (NFV) aims to simplify service deployment using virtual
network functions (VNFs). Service deployment involves the placement of VNFs and in …

The emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Service Function Chaining
(SFC) together enable flexible and agile network management and traffic engineering. Due …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) takes advantages of the emerging technologies in
virtualization and automation to offer new ways in design, deployment, and management of …

To minimize operating expenses (OPEX) and enhance flexibility for network service
provisioning, network function virtualization (NFV) is used to chain an ordered sequence of …

In the delivery of end-to-end services, Network Functions (NFs) are frequently utilized.
Traditionally, these NFs are implemented on middle-boxes. Since physical middle-boxes are …