Nowadays, telecom providers may benefit from the flexibility offered by Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm that allows to decouple the service logic from the underlying …
Service provisioning mechanisms implemented across 5G infrastructures take broadly into use the network service chain concept. Typically, it is coupled with Network Function …
The failure of a single network element composing a Service Function Chain (SFC) unavoidably leads to some degradation in terms of availability (ability of guaranteeing …
As of today, telecommunication providers are exploiting the possibilities offered by the cloud paradigm to efficiently decouple physical network resources, like hardware equipment …
The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is giving impetus to novel telecommunication infrastructures that readily benefit from virtualized environments. One of …
Today, the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is globally considered as the common service platform for providing unified session control on top of various access network technologies …
Abstract The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) defined by the 3GPP has been mainly developed and deployed by telephony vendors on vendor-specific hardware. Recent …
The reputation of network providers strongly depends on their ability to guarantee high performance levels of virtualized infrastructures, and to maintain strict Quality-of-Service …
In modern telecommunication networks, services are provided through Service Function Chains (SFC), where network resources are implemented by leveraging virtualization and …