Availability-and traffic-aware placement of parallelized SFC in data center networks

M Wang, B Cheng, S Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) brings flexible provisioning and great convenience for
enterprises outsource their network functions to the Data Center Networks (DCNs). Network …

HARS: A high-available and resource-saving service function chain placement approach in data center networks

M Niu, Q Han, B Cheng, M Wang, Z Xu… - … on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that decouples network
functions from hardware. Connecting virtual network functions (VNFs) in series to form a …

Joint availability guarantee and resource optimization of virtual network function placement in data center networks

M Wang, B Cheng, J Chen - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that decouples network
functions from the physical device on which they deployed. Network service in NFV is …

Service function chain composition, placement, and assignment in data centers

Z Wang, J Zhang, T Huang, Y Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of network function virtualization (NFV), service function chains
(SFCs) are deployed via virtual network functions (VNFs). In general, the SFCs are served …

FlexChain: Bridging parallelism and placement for service function chains

S Xie, J Ma, J Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered sequence of network functions (NFs). With the
emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, NFs can be deployed as …

Joint resource optimization and delay-aware virtual network function migration in data center networks

B Li, B Cheng, X Liu, M Wang, Y Yue… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm that separates network
functions from proprietary devices. Network service in NFV-enabled networks is achieved as …

A framework for provisioning availability of NFV in data center networks

J Fan, M Jiang, O Rottenstreich, Y Zhao… - IEEE Journal on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization is a promising technique to greatly improve the effectiveness
and flexibility of network services through a process named service function chain (SFC) …

Online parallelized service function chain orchestration in data center networks

G Sun, Z Chen, H Yu, X Du, M Guizani - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, much attention has been focused on deploying service function chains
(SFCs), each of which is composed of a set of virtual network functions (VNFs) in a specified …

Reliability-aware service chaining in carrier-grade softwarized networks

L Qu, M Khabbaz, C Assi - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has revolutionized service provisioning in cloud
datacenter networks. It enables the complete decoupling of Network Functions (NFs) from …

Balancing the migration of virtual network functions with replications in data centers

F Carpio, A Jukan, R Pries - NOMS 2018-2018 IEEE/IFIP …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is enabling flexibility, programmability
and implementation of traditional network functions into generic hardware, in form of the so …