Embedding dependence-aware service function chains

M Jalalitabar, E Guler, D Zheng, G Luo… - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) provides an effective way to decouple network
functions from the proprietary hardware, allowing the network providers to implement …

Towards large-scale network virtualization

P Papadimitriou, I Houidi, W Louati… - Wired/Wireless Internet …, 2012 - Springer
Most existing virtual network (VN) provisioning approaches assume a single administrative
domain and therefore, VN deployments are limited to the geographic footprint of the …

Network function virtualization: State-of-the-art and research challenges

R Mijumbi, J Serrat, JL Gorricho… - … surveys & tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

Performance analysis of virtualized network functions on virtualized systems architectures

M Falkner, A Leivadeas, I Lambadaris… - 2016 IEEE 21st …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Delay-aware VNF placement and chaining based on a flexible resource allocation approach

A Alleg, T Ahmed, M Mosbah, R Riggio… - … on network and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that is receiving significant
attention in both academia and the industry. NFV paradigm proposes to decouple Network …

Routing cost minimization and throughput maximization of NFV-enabled unicasting in software-defined networks

M Jia, W Liang, M Huang, Z Xu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data transfer in contemporary networks usually is associated with strict policy enforcement
for data transfer security and system performance purposes. Such a policy is represented by …

MSV: An algorithm for coordinated resource allocation in network function virtualization

H Li, L Wang, X Wen, Z Lu, J Li - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proposition of network function virtualization (NFV) aims to solve the difficulty and
ossification in current network's management and service provision caused by ever-growing …

NFP: Enabling network function parallelism in NFV

C Sun, J Bi, Z Zheng, H Yu, H Hu - Proceedings of the Conference of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Software-based sequential service chains in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) could
introduce significant performance overhead. Current acceleration efforts for NFV mainly …

Throughput maximization of delay-sensitive request admissions via virtualized network function placements and migrations

M Huang, W Liang, Y Ma, S Guo - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has attracted significant attentions from both industry
and academia as an important paradigm change in network service provisioning. Most …

Availability-aware mapping of service function chains

J Fan, C Guan, Y Zhao, C Qiao - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technique to greatly improve the
effectiveness and flexibility of network services through a process named Service Function …