Network virtualisation is a promising technique for dealing with the resistance of the Internet
to architectural changes. This is achieved by enabling a novel business model in which
infrastructure management is decoupled from service provision. One of the main challenges
in network virtualisation is efficient sharing of physical network resources by the different
virtual networks. This work contributes to efficient resource sharing in network virtualisation
by dividing the resource management problem into three sub-problems: virtual network …

Network virtualisation is a promising technique for dealing with the resistance of the Internet
to architectural changes, enabling a novel business model in which infrastructure
management is decoupled from service provision. It allows infrastructure providers (InPs)
who own substrate networks (SNs) to lease chunks of them out to service providers who
then create virtual networks (VNs), which can then be re-leased out or used to provide
services to end-users. However, the different VNs should be initialised, in which case virtual …