Resource-aware service function chain deployment in cloud-edge environment

H Li, X Li, Z Qian, X Qin - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of network technology, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) provides
a good paradigm of sharing network resources, aiming to transfer network functions from …

Joint resource management and flow scheduling for SFC deployment in hybrid edge-and-cloud network

Y Mao, X Shang, Y Yang - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) migrates network functions from proprietary hardware
to commercial servers on the edge or cloud, making network services more cost-efficient …

Energy-efficient VNF deployment for graph-structured SFC based on graph neural network and constrained deep reinforcement learning

QI Siyu, LI Shuopeng, LIN Shaofu… - 2021 22nd Asia …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV), which decouples network functions from hardware
and transforms them into hardware-independent Virtual Network Functions (VNF), is a …

Resource optimization and delay-aware virtual network function placement for mapping SFC requests in NFV-enabled networks

Y Yue, B Cheng, X Liu - 2020 IEEE 13th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables cloud service providers (CSPs) to flexibly
place their network functions on common off-the-shelf servers in the form of virtual network …

Service function chain graph transformation for enhanced resource efficiency in NFV

A Pentelas, P Papadimitriou - 2021 IFIP Networking …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chain (SFC) embedding optimization is crucial for the resource efficiency
of Network Function Virtualization infrastructures (NFVI). Nevertheless, high utilization …

GCN-TD: A learning-based approach for service function chain deployment on the fly

P Pan, Q Fan, S Wang, X Li, J Li… - GLOBECOM 2020-2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a promising paradigm for transforming
network functions from dedicated hardware to software middleboxes, which can …

Towards latency optimization in hybrid service function chain composition and embedding

D Zheng, C Peng, X Liao, L Tian… - IEEE INFOCOM 2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Network Function Virtualization (NFV), to satisfy the Service Functions (SFs) requested by
a customer, service providers will composite a Service Function Chain (SFC) and embed it …

Drl-sfcp: Adaptive service function chains placement with deep reinforcement learning

T Wang, Q Fan, X Li, X Zhang, Q Xiong… - ICC 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm that network functions can be
deployed on commodity servers instead of dedicated servers to enhance the resource …

An efficient VNF deployment algorithm for SFC scaling-out based on the proposed scaling management mechanism

X Zhao, X Jia, Y Hua - 2020 Information Communication …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV), as an emerging network virtualization technology,
replaces hardware function devices by virtualized network functions (VNF). NFV realizes …

Drl-deploy: adaptive service function chains deployment with deep reinforcement learning

X Wei, Y Sheng, L Li, C Zhou - 2021 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function
virtualization (NFV), the service function chain (SFC) has become a popular paradigm for …