Towards optimal parallelism-aware service chaining and embedding

D Zheng, G Shen, X Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging 5G technologies can significantly reduce end-to-end service latency for
applications requiring strict quality of service (QoS). With network function virtualization …

Towards latency optimization in hybrid service function chain composition and embedding

D Zheng, C Peng, X Liao, L Tian… - IEEE INFOCOM 2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Network Function Virtualization (NFV), to satisfy the Service Functions (SFs) requested by
a customer, service providers will composite a Service Function Chain (SFC) and embed it …

Network service chaining and embedding with provable bounds

D Zheng, H Gu, W Wei, C Peng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is introduced to effectively deliver end-to-end network
services for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), multiaccess edge computing, and 5G …

Toward optimal partial parallelization for service function chaining

IC Lin, YH Yeh, KCJ Lin - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Service Function Chaining
(SFC) together enable flexible and agile network management and traffic engineering. Due …

Resource-ability assisted service function chain embedding and scheduling for 6G networks with virtualization

H Cao, J Du, H Zhao, DX Luo, N Kumar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While 5G is being deployed all around the world, the industry and academia start the
investigation of 6G. Network function virtualization (NFV) is seen as the key enabler towards …

Toward optimal hybrid service function chain embedding in multiaccess edge computing

D Zheng, C Peng, X Liao, X Cao - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging multiaccess edge computing (MEC) architecture brings the needed
computing resource to the network edge. Many 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) applications …

DAG-SFC: Minimize the embedding cost of SFC with parallel VNFs

X Lin, D Guo, Y Shen, G Tang, B Ren - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology, which enables service
agility, flexibility and cost reduction by replacing traditional hardware middleboxes with …

Network service embedding across multiple resource dimensions

A Pentelas, G Papathanail, I Fotoglou… - … on Network and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) poses the need for efficient embeddings of network
services, usually defined in the form of service graphs, associated with resource and …

On the effective parallelization and near-optimal deployment of service function chains

J Luo, J Li, L Jiao, J Cai - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network operators compose Service Function Chains (SFCs) by tying different network
functions (eg, packet inspection, flow shaping, network address translation) together and …

Drive: Dynamic resource introspection and vnf embedding for 5g using machine learning

D Basu, S Kal, U Ghosh, R Datta - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The network slicing (NS) technique is comprehensively reshaping the next-generation
communication networks (eg, 5G and 6G). Software-defined networking (SDN) and network …