Sft-box: An online approach for minimizing the embedding cost of multiple hybrid sfcs

X Lin, D Guo, Y Shen, G Tang, B Ren… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Network Function Virtualization (NFV), a series of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
organized in a specific order (called Service Function Chain, SFC) could offer an end-to-end …

A multi-criteria decision approach for minimizing the influence of VNF migration

B Yi, X Wang, M Huang, A Dong - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been proposed as an important
paradigm to speed up the service deployment and provision, by decoupling network …

Virtual network function placement for serving weighted services in NFV-Enabled networks

DHP Nguyen, YH Lien, BH Liu, SI Chu… - IEEE Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a novel network architecture yielding many
optimization choices to Internet service providers due to its flexibility. Based on this …

Low-latency and resource-efficient service function chaining orchestration in network function virtualization

G Sun, Z Xu, H Yu, X Chen, V Chang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, network function virtualization (NFV) has been proposed to solve the dilemma
faced by traditional networks and to improve network performance through hardware and …

A multi-stage approach for virtual network function migration and service function chain reconfiguration in nfv-enabled networks

B Li, B Cheng, J Chen - 2020 IEEE International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV), as a promising paradigm, speeds up the service
deployment by separating network functions from proprietary devices and deploying them …

Cost-Aware Topological Decomposition of Virtual Network Function Forwarding Graphs

A Azhdari, A Ebrahimzadeh… - … 2023-2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To realize a Network Service (NS) in a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) network, it is
needed to form an ordered set of connected Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), commonly …

RQAP: Resource and QoS Aware Placement of Service Function Chains in NFV-enabled Networks

H Huang, J Tian, H Yin, G Min, D Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), which decouples network functions from the
underlying hardware, has been regarded as an emerging paradigm to provide flexible …

Placement of dynamic service function chains in partially VNF-enabled networks

A Allahvirdi, S Yousefi… - Telecommunication …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging approach to overcome the
limitations of proprietary network hardware appliances. Under the paradigm of NFV, network …

Path mapping approach for network function virtualization resource allocation with network function decomposition support

B Raddwan, K AL-Wagih, IA Al-Baltah, MA Alrshah… - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recently, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
have attracted many mobile operators. For the flexible deployment of Network Functions …

Coordinated allocation of service function chains

MT Beck, JF Botero - 2015 IEEE global communications …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging initiative to overcome increasing
operational and capital costs faced by network operators due to the need to physically locate …