Towards AI-enabled microservice architecture for network function virtualization

M Nekovee, S Sharma, N Uniyal, A Nag… - 2020 IEEE Eighth …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

NFV platform design: A survey

T Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.11059, 2020 - arxiv.org
Due to the intrinsically inefficient service provisioning in traditional networks, Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) keeps gaining attention from both industry and academia. By …

Architectural framework, research issues and challenges of network function virtualization

K Kaur, V Mangat, K Kumar - 2020 8th international conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a new networking paradigm, enabling network
innovation through virtualization of traditional hardware-based network functions in the form …

On application-aware and on-demand service composition in heterogenous NFV environments

L Dong, K Han, L Liang, B Niu… - 2019 IEEE Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we try to further enhance the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of network function
virtualization (NFV) by considering virtual network function service chaining (vNF-SC) in a …

Piaffe: A place-as-you-go in-network framework for flexible embedding of vnfs

DR Mafioletti, CK Dominicini… - ICC 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) ambitiously aims at shifting functionalities from
proprietary hardware to commodity servers as well as providing a common platform for the …

Branching-aware service function placement and routing in network function virtualization

M Jalalitabar, Y Wang, X Cao - 2019 IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology that promises to address
issues in traditional middleboxes, providing service flexibility and reduced cost. NFV …

Performance evaluation on virtualization technologies for nfv deployment in 5g networks

R Behravesh, E Coronado… - 2019 IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is regarded as a pivotal pillar to grasp the
particularized 5G goals by shifting network intelligence from the cloud to the edge. Network …

On monolithic and microservice deployment of network functions

S Sharma, N Uniyal, B Tola… - 2019 IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has recently attracted telecom operators to migrate
network functionalities from expensive bespoke hardware systems to virtualized IT …

SLA-NFV: An SLA-aware high performance framework for network function virtualization

C Sun, J Bi, Z Zheng, H Hu - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We propose SLA-NFV, a Service Level Agreement (SLA) aware framework, for building high-
performance NFV, focusing on fulfilling SLAs of service subscribers (or tenants). SLA-NFV …

Demystifying the performance interference of co-located virtual network functions

C Zeng, F Liu, S Chen, W Jiang… - IEEE INFOCOM 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) decouples network functions from the dedicated
hardware and enables them running on commodity servers, facilitating widespread …