Future network based on software-defined networking (SDN) and network function
virtualization (NFV) technologies is the main evolution tendency of current Internet, enabling …

Dynamic service function chaining (SFC) is a technique that facilitates the enforcement of
advanced services and differentiated traffic forwarding policies. It dynamically steers the …

Network slicing has become a fundamental property for next-generation networks,
especially because an inherent part of 5G standardisation is the ability for service providers …

In recent years, much attention has been focused on deploying service function chains
(SFCs), each of which is composed of a set of virtual network functions (VNFs) in a specified …

Service function chain (SFC) has been recognized as one of the most important
technologies that can satisfy dynamic service demands in the edge clouds. However, how to …

Network virtualization techniques are promising to overcome the obstacle of applying and
expanding costly traditional networks in the industrial Internet of things (IIoT). Artificial …

Abstract Recently Service Function Chaining (SFC) is promising to innovate the network
service mode in modern networks. However, a feasible implementation of SFC is still difficult …

There has been a shift in research towards the convergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT)
and cloud computing paradigms motivated by the need for IoT applications to leverage the …

Network function virtualization (NFV) provides an effective way to decouple network
functions from the proprietary hardware, allowing the network providers to implement …

Network functions typically need to be visited in a specific order to meet certain objectives,
giving rise to the notion of Service Function Chaining. Software-Defined-Networking enables …