The reputation of network providers strongly depends on their ability to guarantee high
performance levels of virtualized infrastructures, and to maintain strict Quality-of-Service …

Modern virtualized network infrastructures relying on Service Function Chaining (SFC) face
new challenges in terms of availability issues related to Service Level Agreements (SLAs). In …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is considered one of the most influencing concepts in
modern telecommunication frameworks, since it has the merit of transposing (and adapting) …

Most softwarized telco services are conveniently framed as service function chains (SFCs).
Indeed, being structured as a combination of interconnected nodes, service chains may …

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is giving impetus to novel
telecommunication infrastructures that readily benefit from virtualized environments. One of …

Service provisioning mechanisms implemented across 5G infrastructures take broadly into
use the network service chain concept. Typically, it is coupled with Network Function …

The failure of a single network element composing a Service Function Chain (SFC)
unavoidably leads to some degradation in terms of availability (ability of guaranteeing …

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) represents a crucial element for the convergence of
telecommunication systems heading towards 5G solutions. Actually, IMS offers a …

A significant fraction of current research in telecommunications is investigating new
paradigms to guarantee high flexibility in deploying network infrastructures. Network …

Nowadays, most telecommunication services adhere to the Service Function Chain (SFC)
paradigm, where network functions are implemented via software. In particular, container …