Telecom operators worldwide are witnessing squeezed profit margins mainly due to hyper‐
competition. Hence, new business models/strategies are needed to help operators reduce …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emergent paradigm that is currently transforming
the way network services are provisioned and managed. The main idea of NFV is to …

Network function virtualization (NFV) technology continues gaining attention as a paradigm
shift, and telecommunication services can be flexibly deployed and managed, resulting in …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is enabling the softwarization of traditional network
services, commonly deployed in dedicated hardware, into generic hardware in form of …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

Virtualization technologies are changing the way network operators deploy and manage
Internet services. In particular in this study we focus on the new Network Function …

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

Network function virtualization foresees the virtualization of service functions and their
execution on virtual machines. Any service is represented by a service function chain (SFC) …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging network resource utilization approach
which decouples network functions from proprietary hardware. To accommodate Service …

The increased demand for high-quality Internet connectivity resulting from the growing
number of connected devices and advanced services has put significant strain on …