Energy efficiency with service availability guarantee for Network Function Virtualization

L Mai, Y Ding, X Zhang, L Fan, S Yu, Z Xu - Future Generation Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Following the trend of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), dedicated hardware
middleboxes are replaced with innovative and flexible software middleboxes also known as …

Energy-saving and resource-efficient algorithm for virtual network function placement with network scaling

M Chen, Y Sun, H Hu, L Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an significant paradigm change in network service provisioning, network function
virtualization (NFV) can accommodate sophisticated and heterogeneous network services …

On the energy efficiency prospects of network function virtualization

R Mijumbi - arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00215, 2015 - arxiv.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has recently received significant attention as an
innovative way of deploying network services. By decoupling network functions from the …

A comprehensive survey of network function virtualization

B Yi, X Wang, K Li, M Huang - Computer Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Virtualized network function consolidation based on multiple status characteristics

D Qi, S Shen, G Wang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In network function virtualization (NFV), network function implemented in software on the
generally shared servers is called virtualized network function (VNF). The characteristics of …

Power-aware virtual network function placement and routing using an abstraction technique

A Varasteh, M De Andrade… - 2018 IEEE Global …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is very promising for efficient provisioning of
network services and is attracting a lot of attention. NFV can be implemented in commercial …

Energy-efficient provisioning for service function chains to support delay-sensitive applications in network function virtualization

G Sun, R Zhou, J Sun, H Yu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The efficient deployment of virtual network functions (VNFs) for network service provisioning
is key for achieving network function virtualization (NFV); however, most existing studies …

Near-optimal energy-efficient algorithm for virtual network function placement

X Zhang, Z Xu, L Fan, S Yu, Y Qu - IEEE Transactions on Cloud …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To accommodate heterogeneous and sophisticated network services, Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) is invented as a hopeful networking technology. The most distinct …

Energy cost optimization in dynamic placement of virtualized network function chains

B Kar, EHK Wu, YD Lin - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV), with its virtualization technologies, brings cloud
computing to networking. Virtualized network functions (VNFs) are chained together to …

Energy-aware service function chaining embedding in nfv networks

R Lin, L He, S Luo, M Zukerman - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new networking paradigm based on decoupling
network functions from dedicated hardware, so these network functions can be run as pieces …