Traditional network is equipped with many proprietary hardware-based network functions.
These hardware-based network functions lead to network ossification which results in lack of …

By allowing network functions to be virtualized and run on commodity hardware, NFV
enables new properties (eg, elastic scaling), and new service models for Service Providers …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture concept that simplifies
the deployment of network services and improves service management. However, it is …

The network function virtualization (NFV) paradigm replaces hardware‐dependent network
functions by virtual network functions (VNFs) that can be deployed in commodity hardware …

The abstraction of the network node functions using virtualization methods introduced an
innovative architecture called Network Function Virtualization (NFV). In NFV, every …

Network function virtualization foresees the virtualization of service functions and their
execution on virtual machines. Any service is represented by a service function chain (SFC) …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a novel network architecture yielding many
optimization choices to Internet service providers due to its flexibility. Based on this …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture that separates network
functions from dedicated hardware, implementing them as software modules known as …

Although network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising approach for providing elastic
network functions, it faces several challenges in terms of adaptation to diverse network …