… The efficiency of a network, however, is highly affected by the deployment of these software
… Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), in the network, which is the focus of this work. Network …

… tion of network functions through virtualization technologies on general-purpose servers, …
In this section, we describe two use cases of NFV, the virtualization of a mobile core network …

… as a logical combination of network functions and virtual … logical network slices and to
accommodate several 5G use cases (… servers with no downtime by migrating VMs to other servers. …

… and how NFV differs from traditional middle-box based network. After that, the standard NFV
… use cases and solutions are also illustrated. In addition, due to the decoupling of network …

… technology that can address these limitations is Network Function Virtualization (NFV) [9],
[… server to represent the ingress and egress points of a traffic request. We use the function ζ(m…

… In this paper, we use SIPp [20] to generate real world Telco NFV traffic. It is a performance-testing
tool for Telco infrastructure and can establish and release multiple calls to an NFV …

… network functions on general hardware such as Commodity Off the Shelf (COTS) servers
to … In this paper, we use the batch size of 32 and 64 pacNets. The IO loop also polls offload …

… to implement network functions in software, leveraging standard servers and virtualization
… multi-tenancy of network and service functions, through allowing the usage of one physical …

… server with 16 GB of memory. While these measurements highlight performance characteristics
most relevant to our framework and use … hand, container-based functions use unmodified …

… that realized the Network Function with compatible server, … use of a large amount of
general-purpose hardware, increased efficiency of equipment use through the virtual network …