Availability evaluation of multi-tenant service function chaining infrastructures by multidimensional universal generating function

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 …

Service function chaining deployed in an NFV environment: An availability modeling

M Di Mauro, M Longo, F Postiglione… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, network and telecommunication operators require flexible and dynamic models
to deploy new services in a fast, reliable and cost saving way. The Service Function …

Availability modeling and evaluation of a network service deployed via NFV

M Di Mauro, M Longo, F Postiglione… - … . Towards a Smart and …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been conceived as an enabler of
novel network infrastructures and services that can be deployed by combining virtualized …

Customizable function chains: Managing service chain variability in hybrid NFV networks

H Moens, F De Turck - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), network functions are virtualized and chained
together to provide a network service. Often, a service chain can be allocated in multiple …

Network function consolidation in service function chaining orchestration

T Wen, H Yu, G Sun, L Liu - 2016 IEEE international conference …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology proposed to improve
service provisioning in telecommunication industry. The flexibility of NFV enables network …

Network-aware availability modeling of an end-to-end NFV-enabled service

B Tola, G Nencioni, BE Helvik - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represents a key shift in nowadays network service
provisioning by entailing higher flexibility, elasticity, and programmability of network …

On dynamic service function chain deployment and readjustment

J Liu, W Lu, F Zhou, P Lu, Z Zhu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology to decouple the network
functions from dedicated hardware elements, leading to the significant cost reduction in …

Optimal network function virtualization and service function chaining: A survey

G Mirjalily, Z Luo - Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Network function virtualization (NFV) and Service function chaining (SFC) can fulfill the
traditional network functions by simply running special softwares on general‐purpose …

Network service topology: Formalization, taxonomy and the custom specification model

V Fulber-Garcia, EP Duarte Jr, A Huff… - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) relies on virtualization technologies to allow
the implementation of middleboxes in software that is executed on commercial off-the-shelf …

Quality of service provisioning in network function virtualization: a survey

S Mostafavi, V Hakami, M Sanaei - Computing, 2021 - Springer
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm for network service
provisioning which decouples the network functions from the physical infrastructure …