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

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 …

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 …