Current Service Function Chaining (SFC) architectures are tailor-made for specific
environments and platforms, often relying on SFC support on network devices or specialized …

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 …

Large-scale networking infrastructures such as service providers deploy complex services to
deal with the growing network traffic demand, security concerns, and user preferences …

Network function virtualization allows network functions to be implemented and managed
flexibly as a service function chain (SFC) in the data plane to process flows. However …

Service function chaining is a network capability that provides support for application-driven-
networking through the ordered interconnection of service functions. The lifecycle …

A Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered sequence of network functions (NFs). With the
emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, NFs can be deployed as …

Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a prominent research field in networking with several
proposals from industry and academia. The lack of tools to check SFC path correctness …

Service Function Chains (SFCs) comprise a sequence of Network Functions (NFs) that are
typically traversed in-order by data flows. Consequently, SFC delay grows linearly with the …

Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm, which has helped to introduce
unseen flexibility in telecom networks. Network service providers, as well as big network …

In legacy networks, network functions (eg, firewalls, NAT, QoS) are highly dependent on
dedicated hardware. It is sophisticated and costly for network operators to determine the …