… In the present work, the new virtualized IMS (vIMS) framework (namely, IMS in an NFV
environment) has been characterized in terms of its availability. Accordingly, we find the optimal …

… 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 …

… of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) emerges that aims in … NFV has been keenly followed
by the telecom industry and … IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) implementation over NFV [4] […

… 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 …

… to develop a new concept, which was called the concept of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem). …
-time duplication of all the main elements of the multimedia platform. For an IMS system, this …

… through implemented NFV orchestration solutions and SDN … service chaining in an NFV
environment in order to provide a … We use the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network as a use …

… networks and the IP Multimedia Subsystem are populated with a large variety of proprietary
hardware appliances, which costs and complexity can be reduced introducing NFV (…

… This signifies a multi-criteria trade-off with subsequent optimizations for their NFV enablers:
… We case study IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), the most important NFV instance for Alcatel-…

… of resilience provisioning in NFV networks. Resilience is the … The employment of NFV
enhances resilience in mobile … Service continuity in NFV is possible due to the portability of the …

… We consider Virtualized IP Multimedia Subsystem (vIMS) as a case study of NFV based
network system implementation. There are several reasons behind our choice of vIMS as NFV …