… NFV is used to virtualize the network functions on a single high-volume server to create a
chain of service functions. SDN offers benefits to make the SFC more agile, flexible, and …

… , network function virtualization and service function chain (… network service is important
for network development. Moreover, as the number of network users increases, network service …

… to construct service chains by combining SDN and NFV, … service function may have several
instances in case of failure. In this article, a service function is also called a network function …

… been proposed to support service chains in NFV networks, including the pipelining … service
chain inside one CPU core. NFP aims to accelerate pipelining model based NFV networks by …

… an energy-aware service function chaining (SFC) embedding in NFV networks with a … network
functions to be executed in a specific sequential order providing a specific network service. …

… In line with these recent trends, the principal contribution of the present paper is to characterize
an NFV-based Service Function Chaining structure by mainly leveraging SRN, a state-…

… Service Function Chaining (SFC). Considering that the delay and resiliency are two important
Service Level Agreements (SLA) in a NFV service… -sensitive Virtual Network Function (VNF…

… -networking, which is realized through the invocation of an ordered set of Service Functions
(… Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are perfect …

… [21] came up with a service function selection algorithm for the service function instance
selection and service function path creation problem. In order to realize load balancing among …

… networking builds on network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking
(SDN) to enable the deployment of network … through the appropriate service functions, and …