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 …

Virtual network function placement for serving weighted services in NFV-Enabled networks

DHP Nguyen, YH Lien, BH Liu, SI Chu… - IEEE Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a novel network architecture yielding many
optimization choices to Internet service providers due to its flexibility. Based on this …

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 …

On the theory of function placement and chaining for network function virtualization

J Zhang, W Wu, JCS Lui - … ACM international symposium on mobile ad …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) can significantly reduce the operation cost and speed
up the deployment for network services to markets. Under NFV, a network service is …

Heuristic service chain construction algorithm based on VNF performances for optimal data transmission services

Y Sumi, T Tachibana - IEICE Transactions on Communications, 2021 - search.ieice.org
In network function virtualization (NFV) environments, service chaining is an emerging
technology that enables network operators to provide network service dynamically and …

Joint optimization of function mapping and preemptive scheduling for service chains in network function virtualization

H Yao, M Xiong, H Li, L Gu, D Zeng - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The idea of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is to decouple of network
functions from dedicated hardwares to obtain higher flexibility in terms of network …

A generalized VNF sharing approach for service scheduling

B Yi, X Wang, M Huang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization enables a flexible service provision by introducing the
concept of virtual network function (VNF). Despite the importance of VNF scheduling, it is …

A reliable resource scheduling for network function virtualization

D Xu, Y Li, M Yin, X Li, H Li, Z Qian - Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in …, 2017 - Springer
Network function virtualization (NFV) is designed to reduce high cost of the hardware
deployment and maintenance, which will be of great importance in the future resource …

Deployment model for parallelized service function chains with considering traffic-delay dependency

C Zhang, T Sato, E Oki - ICC 2023-IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In network function virtualization, virtual network functions (VNFs) are usually chained in
specific orders to generate service function chains (SFCs). Recently, SFC parallelism has …

Service Deployment for Parallelized Function Chains Considering Traffic-Dependent Delay

C Zhang, T Sato, E Oki - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In network function virtualization, virtual network functions (VNFs) are usually chained in
specific orders to generate service function chains (SFCs). Recently, SFC parallelism has …