… —Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture concept which leverages
virtualization technologies to make the management of network functions like … to optimal …

… based on the deployment requests: processing the requests and building VNF graphs,
and finding the optimal placement for the VNF graphs based on optimization goals in the …

… We formulate the problem of optimal vNF placement in binary integer programming (BIP), …
Evaluation results show that our algorithm can achieve near-optimal O/E/O conversions …

… The SP r optimal solution value is equal to 2, while the PR r one is 1, for any value of the
demands k 3 and k 4 in (0, 5]. In Table 3, we report an optimal solution for the two formulations: …

With the advent of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), network services that … Network
Functions (VNFs) that are hosted on general-purpose commodity hardware. This new network …

… We present the algorithm for service placement named VRSSP algorithm in Section V. In
the following, we present VVI algorithm for finding the optimal policy of the introduced MDP in …

… However, unlike [7, 8], our network functions cannot be both … placement of gateways, take
as a reference the LTE network … recent standard of the 3GPP for 5G networks [9]. Furthermore, …

… network function (VNF) placement problem in cloud datacenter considering users’ service
function … For the ILP, we can derive the optimal results by existing optimization solvers, like …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a name of technology for replacing hardware‐based
network functions with software programs. Virtual network function (VNF) is a software …

… ’s load in each time slot, and then it will transfer this information to the NFVO platform to
assistant the solving of optimal placement scheme. For any node u, we formulate the utilization of …