FlexChain: Bridging parallelism and placement for service function chains

S Xie, J Ma, J Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered sequence of network functions (NFs). With the
emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, NFs can be deployed as …

An energy-driven network function virtualization for multi-domain software defined networks

K Kaur, S Garg, G Kaddoum, F Gagnon… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in Software Defined Networks (SDN) emerged as a
new technology for creating virtual instances for smooth execution of multiple applications …

NFVdeep: Adaptive online service function chain deployment with deep reinforcement learning

Y Xiao, Q Zhang, F Liu, J Wang, M Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
With the evolution of network function virtualization (NFV), diverse network services can be
flexibly offered as service function chains (SFCs) consisted of different virtual network …

Toward optimal partial parallelization for service function chaining

IC Lin, YH Yeh, KCJ Lin - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Service Function Chaining
(SFC) together enable flexible and agile network management and traffic engineering. Due …

Low-latency orchestration for workflow-oriented service function chain in edge computing

G Sun, Y Li, Y Li, D Liao, V Chang - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
To realize a cost-efficient, affordable, economical, flexible, elastic and innovative network
service, the concepts of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined …

Prioritized deployment of dynamic service function chains

B Farkiani, B Bakhshi, SA MirHassani… - IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining and Network Function Virtualization are enabling technologies
that provide dynamic network services with diverse QoS requirements. Regarding the limited …

Trusted cloud-edge network resource management: DRL-driven service function chain orchestration for IoT

S Guo, Y Dai, S Xu, X Qiu, F Qi - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Private and public networks sharing resources for Internet of Things (IoT) network through
network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) forms a …