… that the full parallel configuration of a requesting chain can be … parallel configuration for a
given full parallel service chain.To … “ParaBox: Exploiting parallelism for virtual network functions …

… flow passes all the VNFs of its required service chain 𝐹𝑟 in order and the flow latency should
… Zhang, “Parabox: Exploiting parallelism for virtual network functions in service chaining,” in …

… In this paper, an adaptive service function chain parallel processing optimization mechanism
… Zhang, “Parabox: Exploiting parallelism for virtual network functions in service chaining,” in …

… that leverages virtual network function dependency to convert … [7] implemented a prototype
called ParaBox on top of the … -efficient vNF placement for service chaining: Joint sampling and …

… ) embedding for uncertain parallelism opportunities, we propose a practical embedding …
Zhang, “ParaBox: Exploiting parallelism for virtual network functions in service chaining,” in …

… Service function chain parallelism … transferred to software called the Virtual Network Function
(VNF), which … called the ParaBox that allows some VNFs of an SFC to run in parallel and …

… , forming a network service function chain (SFC) [1]. However, NFs might be deployed in
virtual machines/containers hosted by different physical servers, so that a service chain has to …

… ’ drawbacks, we exploit opportunities to enhance NFV perfor… For a parallelism mode such
as ParaBox, the latency growth is … Oki, ‘‘Virtual network function placement for service chaining …

… from proprietary hardware to virtual network functions (VNFs) … a serial and parallel hybrid
SFC structure called ParaBox for … Furthermore, a service chain deployment algorithm based on …

… composing network services as virtualized network functions (… ParaBox and NFP were
innovated to parallelize network func… in different orders in the service chain for different requests, …