Network Function Virtualization (NFV), considered a key enabler of network" softwarization",
promises to reduce capital and operational expenditures for network operators by moving …

As a recent innovation, network functions virtualization (NFV)—with its core concept of
replacing hardware middleboxes with software network functions (NFs) implemented in …

We present PacketMill, a system for optimizing software packet processing, which (i)
introduces a new model to efficiently manage packet metadata and (ii) employs code …

The increasing performance requirements of today's Internet applications demand a reliable
mechanism to transfer data. Many applications rely on the Transmission Control Protocol …

Due to the intrinsically inefficient service provisioning in traditional networks, Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) keeps gaining attention from both industry and academia. By …

The emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Service Function Chaining
(SFC) together enable flexible and agile network management and traffic engineering. Due …

A Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered sequence of network functions (NFs). With the
emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, NFs can be deployed as …

NFV has entered into a new era that heterogeneous frameworks coexist. NFs built upon
those frameworks are thus not interoperable, obstructing operators from getting the best of …

In this paper, we study a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based framework for an
online end-user service provisioning in a Network Function Virtualization (NFV)-enabled …

State-of-the-art approaches to design, develop and optimize software packet-processing
programs are based on static compilation: the compiler's input is a description of the …