The increased demand for high-quality Internet connectivity resulting from the growing
number of connected devices and advanced services has put significant strain on …

The standard approach adopted by software middleboxes to use multiple cores has long
been to direct packets to cores at flow granularity. This, however, has significant …

With the growth of model/dataset/system size for distributed model training in datacenters,
the widely used Parameter Server (PS) architecture suffers from communication bottleneck …

To reduce the processing delay from the sequentially running virtual network functions
(VNFs) in a service function chain (SFC), network function parallelism (NFP) is introduced …

With the development of network functions virtualization and software defined networking,
the service function chain (SFC) orchestration issue is a big challenge for high reliability and …

With the ultimate goal of replacing proprietary hardware appliances with Virtual Network
Functions (VNFs) implemented in software, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims to run software-implemented network functions
on general hardware such as Commodity Off-the-Shelf (COTS) servers to trade the …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) advocates running service function chains (SFCs) on
commodity servers as software, thereby providing a new level of flexibility to the deployment …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising solution to realize a variety of network
services. By definition, virtual network functions (VNFs) are chained together to realize …

Dynamically scaling Virtual Network Function (VNF) is essential for network operators to
make their networks accommodate time-varying network traffic. However, current research …