Data flows belonging to multimedia applications are gaining importance in the Internet. A
key characteristic of such data flows is that they require Quality of Service (QoS). An Internet …

As multimedia Internet applications become pervasive, the characteristics of Internet
Protocol (IP) traffic are changing. Workload characterization is crucial in IP traffic …

Network Function Virtualization allows the provi-sioning and composition of on-demand
network function chains tailored to an application or a service. Repeatable compliance tests …

The adoption of the virtualization paradigm in both computing and networking domains
portends a landscape of heterogeneous service capabilities and resources pervasively …

Modern network services make increasing use of virtualized compute and network
resources. This is enabled by the growing availability of softwarized network functions …

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 …

In the last few years, thanks to the SDN and NFV network paradigms and to the MEC cloud
computing paradigm, network is modifying its ossified infrastructure through a softwarization …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables operators to flexibly deploy network services
on commodity servers in an on-demand and agile manner. This has recently attracted …

The fifth generation (5G) of telecommunications network envisions a fully connected society,
where critical and reliable services play a major role in support to the industry. Emerging …

In this paper we verify the previously proposed analytical traffic model of a multidomain Next
Generation Network (NGN), which is standardized for delivering multimedia services based …