The design, management, and operation of network infrastructure have evolved during the
last few years, leveraging on innovative technologies and architectures. With such a huge …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging network architecture that employs the
concept of virtualization and allows the consolidation of many network services on top of an …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a novel paradigm that enables flexible and scalable
implementation of network services on cloud infrastructure. A key factor in the success of …

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) is an emergent paradigm that is currently transforming
the way network services are provisioned and managed. The main idea of NFV is to …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a promising solution to provide cost-efficient,
scalable and rapid deployment of network services. It allows the implementation of fine …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is enabling the softwarization of traditional network
services, commonly deployed in dedicated hardware, into generic hardware in form of …

Network function virtualization (NFV) and Service function chaining (SFC) can fulfill the
traditional network functions by simply running special softwares on general‐purpose …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a novel network architecture yielding many
optimization choices to Internet service providers due to its flexibility. Based on this …

Over the past decades, the scale of communications networks has been growing rapidly with
the emergence of more and more network-based services. However, network operators all …