Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging approach to overcome the
limitations of proprietary network hardware appliances. Under the paradigm of NFV, network …

Nowadays, network softwareization is an emerging techno-economic transformation trend
that significantly impacts how enterprises deploy their network services. As an essential …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a novel network architecture yielding many
optimization choices to Internet service providers due to its flexibility. Based on this …

Service function chain (SFC) is a series of ordered virtual network functions (VNFs) for
processing traffic flows in the virtualized networking environment of future networks. In this …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has already been a new paradigm for network
architectures. By migrating NFs from dedicated hardware to virtualization platform, NFV can …

Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) decouples network function (also called
middlebox function) software from specified appliances onto general shared servers. Thus, it …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), which decouples network functions from the
underlying hardware, has been regarded as an emerging paradigm to provide flexible …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims to simplify deployment of network services by
running Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) on commercial off-the-shelf servers. Service …

The widespread adoption of network function virtualization (NFV) leads to providing network
services through a chain of virtual network functions (VNFs). This architecture is called …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising network architecture concept, in which
virtualization technologies are employed to manage networking functions via software as …