Towards fine-grained resource allocation in NFV infrastructures

G Papathanail, A Pentelas… - 2021 IEEE Global …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resource optimization arguably comprises a crucial aspect for Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) infrastructures. In this respect, the problem of virtualized network …

Service function chain graph transformation for enhanced resource efficiency in NFV

A Pentelas, P Papadimitriou - 2021 IFIP Networking …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chain (SFC) embedding optimization is crucial for the resource efficiency
of Network Function Virtualization infrastructures (NFVI). Nevertheless, high utilization …

Drl-sfcp: Adaptive service function chains placement with deep reinforcement learning

T Wang, Q Fan, X Li, X Zhang, Q Xiong… - ICC 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm that network functions can be
deployed on commodity servers instead of dedicated servers to enhance the resource …

Speedybox: Low-latency nfv service chains with cross-nf runtime consolidation

Y Jiang, Y Cui, W Wu, Z Xu, J Gu… - 2019 IEEE 39th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-based service chains in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) typically suffers high
processing latency. This latency grows as chain lengths increase and possibly violates …

Environment-adaptive sizing and placement of NFV service chains with accelerated reinforcement learning

M Nakanoya, Y Sato… - 2019 IFIP/IEEE symposium …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As network function virtualization spread, network service providers have been able to
deliver various networks flexibly and rapidly. In particular, products and services that build …

Reliability-aware VNF placement using a probability-based approach

Y Wu, W Zheng, Y Zhang, J Li - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture concept that simplifies
the deployment of network services and improves service management. However, it is …

An efficient VNF deployment scheme for cloud networks

J Fu, G Li - 2019 IEEE 11th International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With maturity of cloud network technologies and rapid development of NFV (Network
Function Virtualization), the research on NFV based on cloud technologies has gradually …

VNF-P: A model for efficient placement of virtualized network functions

H Moens, F De Turck - 10th international conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an upcoming paradigm where network
functionality is virtualized and split up into multiple building blocks that can be chained …

Traffic-aware and energy-efficient vNF placement for service chaining: Joint sampling and matching approach

C Pham, NH Tran, S Ren, W Saad… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising approach for providing elastic
network functions, it faces several challenges in terms of adaptation to diverse network …

Joint optimization of service function chaining and resource allocation in network function virtualization

L Wang, Z Lu, X Wen, R Knopp, R Gupta - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) has already been a new paradigm for network
architectures. By migrating NFs from dedicated hardware to virtualization platform, NFV can …