Widespread adoption of smart IoT devices is accelerating research for new techniques to
make IoT applications secure, scalable, energy-efficient, and capable of working in mission …

Existing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) service placements that reuse already
deployed network functions either reuse an entire Service Function Chain (SFC) or only …

It is estimated that there will be approximately 125 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices
connected to the Internet by 2030, which are expected to generate large amounts of data …

In recent years, much attention has been focused on deploying service function chains
(SFCs), each of which is composed of a set of virtual network functions (VNFs) in a specified …

Network function virtualization (NFV) in 6G can use standard virtualization techniques to
enable network functions via software. Resource scheduling is one of the key research …

Abstract Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) offers cloud computing capabilities at the
edge of the network. Growing demand for low-latency services requires Service Function …

Zero-touch network and service management (ZSM) exploits network function virtualization
(NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) to efficiently and dynamically orchestrate …

Over the last few years, network slicing has been presented as one of the key ingredients in
5G for efficiently specifying network services as per the heterogeneous quality and …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology to make 5G networks flexible
and agile. NFV decreases operators' OPEX and CAPEX by decoupling the physical …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) decouples network functions from hardware, improves
the flexibility of resource allocation, and enhances network scalability. Any failures of …