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 …
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 …
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 Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is giving impetus to novel telecommunication infrastructures that readily benefit from virtualized environments. One of …
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The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm has been devised as an enabler of next generation network infrastructures by speeding up the provisioning and the composition of …
Network Functions Virtualization facilitates the automation of the scaling of softwarized network services (SNSs). However, the realization of such a scenario requires a way to …
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has recently gained much popularity in the research scene for the flexibility and programmability that it will bring with the software implementation …