Network function virtualization was recently proposed to improve the flexibility of network
service provisioning and reduce the time to market of new services. By leveraging …

Diverse proprietary network appliances increase both the capital and operational expense
of service providers, meanwhile causing problems of network ossification. Network function …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

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 …

The ongoing network softwarization trend holds the promise to revolutionize network
infrastructures by making them more flexible, reconfigurable, portable, and more adaptive …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV), considered a key enabler of network" softwarization",
promises to reduce capital and operational expenditures for network operators by moving …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

The resources of dedicated accelerators (eg FPGA) are still required to bridge the gap
between software-based Middleboxs (MBs) and the commodity hardware. To consolidate …

Network function virtualization (NFV) implements network middleboxes in software, enabling
them to be more flexible and dynamic. NFV resource allocation methods can exploit the …

Network function virtualization foresees the virtualization of service functions and their
execution on virtual machines. Any service is represented by a service function chain (SFC) …