The maturity reached by virtualisation technology enabled great innovation for efficient
applications and services development and delivery, independent of the underlying …

The popularity of multimedia services offered over the Internet have increased tremendously
during the last decade. The technologies that are used to deliver these services are evolving …

Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) are often implemented using virtual machines (VMs)
because they provide an isolated environment compatible with classical cloud computing …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) brings a cloud service automation paradigm to
demand-driven elastic flexing of infrastructure resources. Thus, it is essential to characterize …

The EU funded FP7 project T-NOVA, with the specific goal of accelerating the evolution of
NFV, proposes an open architecture to provide Virtual Network Functions as a Service …

Motivated by the vision of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) spanning different
administrative domains, this position paper makes the case for multi-domain, distributed …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging network architecture that employs the
concept of virtualization and allows the consolidation of many network services on top of an …

Network Function Virtualization promises to reduce the overall operational and capital
expenses experienced by the network operators. Running multiple network functions on top …

An increasing demand is seen from enterprises to host and dynamically manage middlebox
services in public clouds in order to leverage the same benefits that network functions …

Ongoing evolutions in the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) area show that software will
play an increasingly important role within the telecommunication industry. It enables telco …