An aggressive migration strategy for service function chaining in the core cloud

H Feng, Z Shu, T Taleb, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is regarded as an important concept for next-generation
communication networks because it can flexibly tackle diverse usage scenarios. Due to SFC …

Service function chain orchestration across multiple clouds

X Zhong, Y Wang, X Qiu - China Communications, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization is a new network concept that moves network functions from
dedicated hardware to software-defined applications running on standard high volume …

Service function chain mapping with resource fragmentation avoidance

Z Zhu, H Lu, J Li, X Jiang - GLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of Service Function Chain (SFC), SFC Mapping (SFCM) problem has a
decisive impact on the resource utilization efficiency of physical networks, where node …

Resource aware chaining and adaptive capacity scaling for service function chains in distributed cloud network

J Zu, G Hu, Y Wu, D Shao, J Yan - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of network technology such as software-defined network (SDN) and
network function virtualization (NFV), Internet service providers (ISPs) are increasingly …

Resource-aware service function chain deployment in cloud-edge environment

H Li, X Li, Z Qian, X Qin - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of network technology, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) provides
a good paradigm of sharing network resources, aiming to transfer network functions from …

A novel approach for service function chain embedding in cloud datacenter networks

W Qiao, Y Liu, Y Lu, X Li, J Yan… - IEEE Communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN) have recently
introduced together, which show great potential in openness, innovation, flexibility and …

An efficient algorithm for service function chains reconfiguration in mobile edge cloud networks

B Li, B Cheng, J Chen - 2021 IEEE International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) supports ultra-low latency and high-bandwidth services as
an emerging network architecture by deploying servers at the edge of the network to provide …

ElasticSFC: Auto-scaling techniques for elastic service function chaining in network functions virtualization-based clouds

AN Toosi, J Son, Q Chi, R Buyya - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
It is anticipated that future networks support network functions, such as firewalls, load
balancers and intrusion prevention systems in a fully automated, flexible, and efficient …

Carrier-grade availability-aware mapping of service function chains with on-site backups

J Fan, M Jiang, C Qiao - 2017 IEEE/ACM 25th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technique to greatly improve the
effectiveness and flexibility of network services through a process named Service Function …

Availability-aware mapping of service function chains

J Fan, C Guan, Y Zhao, C Qiao - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technique to greatly improve the
effectiveness and flexibility of network services through a process named Service Function …