Managing Network Function (NF) service chains requires careful system resource
management. We propose NFVnice, a user space NF scheduling and service chain …

Recent approaches to network functions virtualization (NFV) have shown that commodity
network stacks and drivers struggle to keep up with increasing hardware speed. Despite …

Software-based sequential service chains in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) could
introduce significant performance overhead. Current acceleration efforts for NFV mainly …

By moving network appliance functionality from proprietary hardware to software, Network
Function Virtualization promises to bring the advantages of cloud computing to network …

Network function virtualization (NFV) implements network middleboxes in software, enabling
them to be more flexible and dynamic. NFV resource allocation methods can exploit the …

Network Function Virtualization is allowing carriers to replace dedicated middleboxes with
Network Functions (NFs) consolidated on shared servers, but the question of how (and even …

In this paper we present Metron, a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that
achieves high resource utilization by jointly exploiting the underlying network and …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV), considered a key enabler of network" softwarization",
promises to reduce capital and operational expenditures for network operators by moving …

Network middleboxes are growing in number and diversity. Middleboxes have been
deployed widely to complement the basic end-to-end functionality provided by the Internet …

Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …