With the emerging paradigm of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the Internet Service
Provider (ISP) can outsource their service functions to the cloud data center (DC) to reduce …

In the realm of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) are
crucial software entities that require execution on virtualized hardware infrastructure …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables cloud service providers (CSPs) to flexibly
place their network functions on common off-the-shelf servers in the form of virtual network …

Abstract Service chaining provides network services to users by processing packets with a
series of virtualized network functions (VNFs). Multicast communication can suppress the …

Cloud service providers widely use virtual machines and bring various benefits for
customers and themselves. The unavailability of virtual machines is a crucial performance …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) leverages virtualization and cloud computing
technologies to make networks more flexible, manageable, and scalable. Instead of using …

With the emergence of network softwarization trend, traditional networking services offered
by Internet providers are expected to evolve by fully leveraging new recent technologies like …

An appealing feature of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is that in an NFV-based
network, a network function (NF) instance may be placed at any node. On the one hand this …

The ubiquitous deployment of middleboxes can hamper the network capability to be flexible,
scalable and innovative to an extent that new and specialized services cannot be easily …

In the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, Internet Service Providers (ISP)
provide network services to customers by routing and processing traffic through an ordered …