The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) initiative involving the European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) and a group of telecom companies, started in …
Modern ICT infrastructures are evolving thanks to the advantages offered by virtualisation in terms of flexibility, scalability, and savings on hardware-related costs. More recently …
As a case study of a novel approach to characterize service chains in terms of performance and availability, we consider a containerized IP Multimedia Subsystem (cIMS) infrastructure …
In modern telecommunication networks, services are provided through Service Function Chains (SFC), where network resources are implemented by leveraging virtualization and …
A Valantasis, N Makris, C Zarafetas… - 2021 IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The adoption of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is considered as one of the enablers for a fully softwarized 5G architecture, that allows significantly higher flexibility for network …
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging solution that aims at improving the flexibility, the efficiency and the manageability of networks, by leveraging virtualization and …
VF Garcia, LC Marcuzzo, A Huff… - 2019 IEEE Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proper execution and management of heterogeneous Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) relies on the employment of efficient and comprehensive VNF platforms. However …
M Di Mauro, M Longo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm has been devised as an enabler of next generation network infrastructures by speeding up the provisioning and the composition of …
JB Filipe, F Meneses, AU Rehman… - … Conference on the …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth generation (5G) of telecommunications network envisions a fully connected society, where critical and reliable services play a major role in support to the industry. Emerging …