… Container technology is normally coupled with the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) …
Function (GNF), a container-based NFV framework aimed at running and orchestrating VNFs …

… novelty introduced by NFV relies on the possibility of strongly decoupling network functions
from … Moreover, NFV introduces the concept of service chain, namely, a group of softwarized …

… Among the impacted infrastructures, we have to certainly include the virtualized IP Multimedia
Subsystem (vIMS) which plays a central role within the 5G domain for the convergence of …

… has been designed as a framework in charge of providing access to multimedia IP-based …
Multimedia Subsystem is well suited to be deployed in softwarized environments, since NFV…

… Inspired by these last trends, in this work we propose a statistical characterization of a
containerized version of IP Multimedia Subsystem (cIMS), one of the crucial parts of 5G core …

… multimedia applications have compelled network operators to look towards Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) to … [3], and monetary aspects [4] of NFV, largely ignoring the impact of …

… softwarization and virtualization technologies leveraging SDN, NFV, MEC, Fog/Cloud
Computing as important elements for managing multimedia services in future networks such as 5G/…

… With SDN and NFV supporting the underlying physical … Based on NFV and SDN, physical
infrastructure of the future … for each corresponding service type using NFV on a unified physical …

… In contrast, in an NFV environment, VMs needs to process traffic continuously and thus
they are characterized as I/O bound. As OVS was not implemented to efficiently switch a large …

… We project our proposal onto the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core network to discuss
both dynamic and static signaling service provisioning approaches. In this situation, we set up …