The growing demand for flexibility and cost reduction in the telecommunication landscape
directs the focus of service development heavily to programmability and softwarization. In …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a new trend in networking, where network functions
are moving from custom hardware appliances to software implementations running on …

Most challenges associated with Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) are related to the
automated and large-scale deployment of virtualised network functions (VNFs) within an …

When rolling out Network Function Virtualization (NFV) services, resource monitoring
becomes a critical task subject to different cost-accuracy tradeoffs depending on whether …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) brings agility and flexibility delivering network
services with cost efficiency to network operators. As an emerging technology, it also …

Network function virtualization (NFV) provides flexible and scalable network services by
leveraging software-based network appliances. In an NFV architecture, the virtual network …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) brings a cloud service automation paradigm to
demand-driven elastic flexing of infrastructure resources. Thus, it is essential to characterize …

With the flexibility and programmability levels offered by Network Functions Virtualization
(NFV), it is expected to catalyze the upcoming “softwarization” of the network through …

Ongoing evolutions in the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) area show that software will
play an increasingly important role within the telecommunication industry. It enables telco …

The EU funded FP7 project T-NOVA, with the specific goal of accelerating the evolution of
NFV, proposes an open architecture to provide Virtual Network Functions as a Service …