Resource-efficient virtual network function placement in operator networks

X Song, X Zhang, S Yu, S Jiao… - GLOBECOM 2017-2017 …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging network resource utilization approach
which decouples network functions from proprietary hardware. To accommodate Service …

Cost-aware placement and chaining of service function chain with VNF instance sharing

H Guo, Y Wang, Z Li, X Qiu, H An… - NOMS 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an important shift in telecommunication service
provisioning. It enables the decoupling of network element functions and dedicated …

Cost-efficient virtual network function placement and traffic steering

Y Liu, J Pei, P Hong, D Li - ICC 2019-2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benefiting from Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Service Function Chain (SFC) that is
composed of a set of ordered Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) has become a popular …

Machine learning for performance-aware virtual network function placement

DM Manias, M Jammal, H Hawilo… - 2019 IEEE Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing demand for data connectivity, network service providers are faced with the
task of reducing their capital and operational expenses while simultaneously improving …

Energy-efficient virtual network function placement in telecom networks

Z Xu, X Zhang, S Yu, J Zhang - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging network architecture, which decouples
the software implementation of network functions from the underlying hardware. Telecom …

Near-optimal energy-efficient algorithm for virtual network function placement

X Zhang, Z Xu, L Fan, S Yu, Y Qu - IEEE Transactions on Cloud …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To accommodate heterogeneous and sophisticated network services, Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) is invented as a hopeful networking technology. The most distinct …

Joint placement and allocation of virtual network functions with budget and capacity constraints

G Sallam, B Ji - IEEE INFOCOM 2019-IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advent of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), network services that traditionally
run on proprietary dedicated hardware can now be realized using Virtual Network Functions …

Placement of dynamic service function chains in partially VNF-enabled networks

A Allahvirdi, S Yousefi… - Telecommunication …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging approach to overcome the
limitations of proprietary network hardware appliances. Under the paradigm of NFV, network …

Energy-saving and resource-efficient algorithm for virtual network function placement with network scaling

M Chen, Y Sun, H Hu, L Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an significant paradigm change in network service provisioning, network function
virtualization (NFV) can accommodate sophisticated and heterogeneous network services …

Efficient virtual network function placement for poisson arrived traffic

J Sun, F Liu, M Ahmed, Y Li - ICC 2019-2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network have revolutionized
data networks. For deployment of the VNFs, it is imperative to consider the queuing delay …