Towards optimal parallelism-aware service chaining and embedding

D Zheng, G Shen, X Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging 5G technologies can significantly reduce end-to-end service latency for
applications requiring strict quality of service (QoS). With network function virtualization …

Service function chaining in industrial Internet of Things with edge intelligence: A natural actor-critic approach

J Li, R Wang, K Wang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to network function virtualization (NFV), each industrial application is constructed as a
service function chain (SFC), concatenating the ordered service functions, to offer …

Reliability-aware dynamic service chain scheduling in 5G networks based on reinforcement learning

J Jia, L Yang, J Cao - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a key enabler of future 5G network, Service Function Chain (SFC) forwards the traffic flow
along a chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to provide network services flexibility. One …

Impact of service function aging on the dependability for MEC service function chain

J Bai, X Chang, F Machida, L Jiang… - … on Dependable and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
integrated architecture is a key enabling platform for 5G to run multiple customized services …

Reliable dynamic service chain scheduling in 5G networks

L Yang, J Jia, H Lin, J Cao - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a key enabler of future 5G network, Service Function Chain (SFC) forwards the traffic flow
along a chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to provide network services flexibility. One …

Time-efficient distributed virtual network embedding for round-trip delay minimization

I Dimolitsas, D Dechouniotis, S Papavassiliou - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) aims at determining the placement of virtual
services both internally in the edge/cloud infrastructure (EC) and distributed, among distinct …

Energy-aware service function chaining embedding in NFV networks

R Lin, L He, S Luo, M Zukerman - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new networking paradigm based on decoupling
network functions from dedicated hardware, so these network functions can be run as pieces …

Trust-aware service function chain embedding: A path-based approach

N Torkzaban, JS Baras - 2020 IEEE Conference on Network …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the emergence of network function virtualization (NFV), and software-defined
networking (SDN), the realization and implementation of service function chains (SFCs) …

Network service chaining and embedding with provable bounds

D Zheng, H Gu, W Wei, C Peng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is introduced to effectively deliver end-to-end network
services for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), multiaccess edge computing, and 5G …

Off-site protection against service function forwarder failures in NFV

C Peng, D Zheng, Y Zhong, X Cao - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Many internet applications in the emerging 5G/6G networks require ultra-reliable and low-
latency communications (URLLC) services. To deliver URLLC services flexibly and …