Deploying hybrid network services: Mixing vnfs and cnfs in multi-site infrastructures

J Baranda, J Mangues-Bafalluy, L Vettori… - 2021 18th Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next generation mobile networks base on the auto-mated, flexible, and dynamic
orchestration of virtualised network services (NSs). These NSs are made up of Virtual …

Network functions virtualization: The long road to commercial deployments

AU Rehman, RL Aguiar, JP Barraca - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network operators are under pressure to offer efficient network-based services while
keeping service deployment costs to a minimum. Network functions virtualization (NFV) can …

Performance evaluation and tuning of virtual infrastructure managers for (micro) virtual network functions

PL Ventre, C Pisa, S Salsano… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) are emerging as the keystone of 5G network
architectures: flexibility, agility, fast instantiation times, consolidation, Commercial Off The …

The limits of architectural abstraction in network function virtualization

B Nemeth, X Simonart, N Oliver… - 2015 IFIP/IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is the paradigm of implementing network services as
a network of functions on top of commodity off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. It is of profound …

Analytical modeling for virtualized network functions

J Prados-Garzon, P Ameigeiras… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is considered one of the key technologies for the 5G
mobile networks. In NFV, network functions are implemented in software components …

Towards AI-enabled microservice architecture for network function virtualization

M Nekovee, S Sharma, N Uniyal, A Nag… - 2020 IEEE Eighth …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables operators to flexibly deploy network services
on commodity servers in an on-demand and agile manner. This has recently attracted …

Hysteretic mechanism for 5G hybrid evolved packet core resource management

P Abaev, A Tsarev - 2018 10th International Congress on Ultra …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) provides mobile telecom operators with the capability
to legacy mobile core functions in virtualize network entities VNFs. This allows to offer fine …

CUSCO: a customizable solution for NFV composition

V Fulber-Garcia, MC Luizelli, CRP dos Santos… - … : Proceedings of the 34th …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Although Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has multiple advantages in
comparison with traditional hardware middleboxes, there are still many open problems …

Placement and routing of vnfs for horizontal scaling

R Gouareb, V Friderikos… - 2019 26th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To deploy a wide range of services, improve network flexibility and facilitate the deployment
and maintenance of network services, virtualization of network functions promises to make …

Cloudified IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) for network function virtualization (NFV)-based architectures

G Carella, M Corici, P Crosta, P Comi… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The maturity reached by virtualisation technology enabled great innovation for efficient
applications and services development and delivery, independent of the underlying …