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 …

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 Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is giving impetus to novel
telecommunication infrastructures that readily benefit from virtualized environments. One of …

In the era of fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, a flexible, cost saving and
reliable deployment of the network infrastructures appears to be a crucial issue. The …

The Next Generation 5G Networks can greatly benefit from the synergy between
virtualization paradigms, such as the Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and service …

Abstract The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been conceived as an enabler of
novel network infrastructures and services that can be deployed by combining virtualized …

Nowadays, network and telecommunication operators require flexible and dynamic models
to deploy new services in a fast, reliable and cost saving way. The Service Function …

This paper aims to review some reliability and availability methodologies suitable to
characterize telecommunication networks behavior, in particular, in the presence random …

In order to evaluate performance of mobile networks, it is necessary to consider the
occurrence of random failures causing performance degradation and the consequent repair …