… network nodes to provide specific services. A well known chain-like framework is the IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a key infrastructure of 5G networks, that we characterize both by a …

… new approach enables multiple services to be invoked as a linear chain during a session.
We model the service invocation mechanisms through Jackson networks, which are validated …

… , as we do, the distinguished chain structure of IMS. Interesting is … a containerized IMS service
chain, a key element of 5G networks. … IMS service chain, exploiting the queueing networks …

… characterization of softwarized network chains by exploiting … nodes, and Stochastic Reward
Networks (SRN) to model the … softwarized chain constituted by an IP Multimedia Subsystem …

… Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), the framework in charge of managing the multimedia services
in the next generation networks… Being the interconnection of the IMS nodes a network chain, …

… CSCF proxies all SIP signaling traffic and provides the following network services: … The
CSCF successively inspects the ISC filters again to check which is the next service in the chain, …

… Each service in the chain requires an independent network function; hence, the IMS … , which
were not possible in the original cellular systems and Internet services. The IMS in the core …

… schemes for charging services, as the value chain and impact on final services’ price … first
Internet services like email, telnet or web, which are in general very tolerant in terms of network …

… It is intended for connection of subscribers with the equipment of Internet service … multimedia
platform. For an IMS system, this would look like a duplication of the entire sequential chain …

… network services. Inspired by these last trends, in this work we propose a statistical
characterization of a containerized version of IP Multimedia Subsystem (… Service Function …