The European Telecommunications Standards Institute management and orchestration framework is designed to enable automated management of the network services and their …
This paper proposes a new fully decentralized approach to online placement and optimization of virtual machines (VMs) for network functions virtualization (NFV). The …
Network function virtualization (NFV) provokes the evolution of network functions to overcome various challenges facing the network service providers (NSPs). To exploit the …
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has recently gained momentum among network operators as a means to share their physical infrastructure among virtual operators, which …
A promising area of application for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is in network security, where chains of Virtual Security Network Functions (VSNFs), ie, security-specific …
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are deeply changing the networking field by introducing software at any level, aiming at decoupling the …
The introduction of network function virtualisation (NFV) represents a significant change in networking technology, which may create new opportunities in terms of cost efficiency …