A significant fraction of current research in telecommunications is investigating new
paradigms to guarantee high flexibility in deploying network infrastructures. Network …

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is giving impetus to novel
telecommunication infrastructures that readily benefit from virtualized environments. One of …

Abstract The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been conceived as an enabler of
novel network infrastructures and services that can be deployed by combining virtualized …

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) initiative involving the European
Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) and a group of telecom companies, started in …

The reputation of network providers strongly depends on their ability to guarantee high
performance levels of virtualized infrastructures, and to maintain strict Quality-of-Service …

Service provisioning mechanisms implemented across 5G infrastructures take broadly into
use the network service chain concept. Typically, it is coupled with Network Function …

In the era of fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, a flexible, cost saving and
reliable deployment of the network infrastructures appears to be a crucial issue. The …

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) represents a crucial element for the convergence of
telecommunication systems heading towards 5G solutions. Actually, IMS offers a …

Nowadays, telecom providers may benefit from the flexibility offered by Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) paradigm that allows to decouple the service logic from the underlying …

It is important to assess availability of virtualized systems in IT business infrastructures.
Previous work on availability modeling and analysis of the virtualized systems used a …