The rise of new types of business models with service providers, content providers, and
virtual network operators entering in competition with traditional telco operators is reducing …

We present a cloud resources integrated provisioning architecture utilizing coordinated
virtualization of distributed datacenters and operator's multi-domain software define optical …

This article presents an efficient optical service chaining architecture for network function
virtualization in data centers. Service chaining (ie, steering traffic through a sequence of …

In the upcoming 5G networks and following the emerging software-defined
networking/network function virtualization (SDN/NFV) paradigm, demanded services will be …

Network virtualization is an emerging technique that enables multiple tenants to share an
underlying physical infrastructure, isolating the traffic running over different virtual …

Due to the emergence of cloud computing and various cloud services which are remote and
geographically distributed, datacenters interconnected by optical networks have attracted …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology decouples network functions from
proprietary hardware equipments. As a result, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) implement …

To meet the increasing traffic demands characterized by large bandwidth and high
burstiness, more traffic has been moving to inter-datacenter elastic optical networks (inter …

Network function virtualization is a new network concept that moves network functions from
dedicated hardware to software-defined applications running on standard high volume …

The migration of network functions (NFs) to datacenters, as promoted by Network Function
Virtualization (NFV), raises the need for service chaining (ie, steering traffic through a …