Microscope: Queue-based performance diagnosis for network functions

J Gong, Y Li, B Anwer, A Shaikh, M Yu - … of the Annual conference of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
By moving monolithic network appliances to software running on commodity hardware,
network function virtualization allows flexible resource sharing among network functions and …

Sft-box: An online approach for minimizing the embedding cost of multiple hybrid sfcs

X Lin, D Guo, Y Shen, G Tang, B Ren… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Network Function Virtualization (NFV), a series of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
organized in a specific order (called Service Function Chain, SFC) could offer an end-to-end …

Quantitative understanding serial-parallel hybrid SFC services: A dependability perspective

J Bai, X Chang, F Machida, Z Han, Y Xu… - Peer-to-Peer Networking …, 2022 - Springer
Network function virtualization (NFV) has been explored to be integrated with multi-access
edge computing (MEC) to facilitate the development of 5G (fifth-generation) network …

Parking packet payload with P4

S Goswami, N Kodirov, C Mustard… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Network Function (NF) deployments suffer from poor link goodput, because popular NFs
such as firewalls process only packet headers while receiving and transmitting complete …

A disaggregated packet processing architecture for network function virtualization

SR Chowdhury, H Bian, T Bai… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises to reduce the capital and operational
expenditure for network operators by moving packet processing from purpose-built …

DAG-SFC: Minimize the embedding cost of SFC with parallel VNFs

X Lin, D Guo, Y Shen, G Tang, B Ren - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology, which enables service
agility, flexibility and cost reduction by replacing traditional hardware middleboxes with …

Network service topology: Formalization, taxonomy and the custom specification model

V Fulber-Garcia, EP Duarte Jr, A Huff… - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) relies on virtualization technologies to allow
the implementation of middleboxes in software that is executed on commercial off-the-shelf …

CoDeC: A cost-effective and delay-aware SFC deployment

F Tashtarian, MF Zhani, B Fatemipour… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chain (SFC) provides an end-to-end service by processing traffic flow
through a series of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in a specific order. Satisfying user's …

A survey of NFV network acceleration from ETSI perspective

YX Huang, J Chou - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Network function virtualization (NFV) enables network operators to save costs and flexibility
by replacing dedicated hardware with software network functions running on commodity …

Make It Real: An End-to-End Implementation of A Physically Disaggregated Data Center

Y Zhang - ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Resource disaggregation is an approach to separate different hardware resources into
independent pools in a data center, so that these pools can be easily managed and their …