QoS-driven function placement reducing expenditures in NFV deployments

P Vizarreta, M Condoluci, CM Machuca… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With Network Function Virtualization (NFV), network functions are deployed as modular
software components on the commodity hardware, and can be further chained to provide …

MSV: An algorithm for coordinated resource allocation in network function virtualization

H Li, L Wang, X Wen, Z Lu, J Li - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proposition of network function virtualization (NFV) aims to solve the difficulty and
ossification in current network's management and service provision caused by ever-growing …

Resource-efficient virtual network function placement in operator networks

X Song, X Zhang, S Yu, S Jiao… - GLOBECOM 2017-2017 …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging network resource utilization approach
which decouples network functions from proprietary hardware. To accommodate Service …

On the trade-off between computational load and reliability for network function virtualization

J Kang, O Simeone, J Kang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization enables the “softwarization” of network functions, which are
implemented on virtual machines hosted on commercial off-the-shelf servers. Both the …

Artificial neural network model to predict affinity for virtual network functions

AS Jacobs, RJ Pfitscher, RL dos Santos… - NOMS 2018-2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) was proposed to migrate middleboxes that compose
network services, such as firewalls and Network Address Translation (NAT) servers, from …

VNF placement strategy for availability and reliability of network services in NFV

Y Alahmad, A Agarwal - 2019 Sixth International Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a new networking platform for fast and economic
provisioning of Network Services (NSs) to the end users. NS in NFV is provided through a …

Towards explainable artificial intelligence for network function virtualization

S Sharma, A Nag, L Cordeiro, O Ayoub… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) refers to the process of running network functions in
virtualized IT infrastructures as softwarized Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Several …

Deploying chains of virtual network functions: On the relation between link and server usage

TW Kuo, BH Liou, KCJ Lin… - IEEE/ACM Transactions On …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, network function virtualization has been proposed to transform from network
hardware appliances to software middleboxes. Normally, a demand needs to invoke several …

Delay-aware VNF placement and chaining based on a flexible resource allocation approach

A Alleg, T Ahmed, M Mosbah, R Riggio… - … on network and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that is receiving significant
attention in both academia and the industry. NFV paradigm proposes to decouple Network …

Multi-resource VNF deployment in a heterogeneous cloud

J Zheng, Z Zhang, Q Ma, X Gao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging paradigm of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises to shorten the
renewal cycles of network functions and reduce the capital expenses by flexibly deploying …