Service function chain placement in distributed scenarios: a systematic review

GL Santos, DF Bezerra, ES Rocha, L Ferreira… - Journal of Network and …, 2022 - Springer
The network function virtualization (NFV) paradigm is an emerging technology that provides
network flexibility by allowing the allocation of network functions over commodity hardware …

Resource-ability assisted service function chain embedding and scheduling for 6G networks with virtualization

H Cao, J Du, H Zhao, DX Luo, N Kumar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While 5G is being deployed all around the world, the industry and academia start the
investigation of 6G. Network function virtualization (NFV) is seen as the key enabler towards …

Dynamic service function chain orchestration for NFV/MEC-enabled IoT networks: A deep reinforcement learning approach

Y Liu, H Lu, X Li, Y Zhang, L Xi… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) and mobile-edge computing (MEC) have been
introduced by Internet service providers (ISPs) to deal with various challenges, which hinder …

Multiagent reinforcement-learning-aided service function chain deployment for internet of things

Y Zhu, H Yao, T Mai, W He, N Zhang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, the compelling applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) bring unexpected
economic benefits to our daily lives. But at the same time, it also poses huge challenges to …

Endogenous trusted DRL-based service function chain orchestration for IoT

S Guo, Y Qi, Y Jin, W Li, X Qiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of the Internet of Things, trust has become a limited factor in the
integration of heterogeneous IoT networks. In this regard, we use the combination of …

Cross-Chain-Based Trustworthy Node Identity Governance in Internet of Things

T Xie, K Gai, L Zhu, Y Guo… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a flourishing technical adoption boosted by 5G technology in recent years, Internet of
Things (IoT) has become a common implementation in contemporary network-based …

Dynamic virtual resource allocation mechanism for survivable services in emerging NFV-enabled vehicular networks

H Cao, H Zhao, DX Luo, N Kumar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is an emerging aspect of the 5G vertical application.
Network function virtualization (NFV) is the key enabling technology of 5G and beyond 5G …

Energy-aware service function chaining embedding in NFV networks

R Lin, L He, S Luo, M Zukerman - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new networking paradigm based on decoupling
network functions from dedicated hardware, so these network functions can be run as pieces …

Trust-aware service function chain embedding: A path-based approach

N Torkzaban, JS Baras - 2020 IEEE Conference on Network …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the emergence of network function virtualization (NFV), and software-defined
networking (SDN), the realization and implementation of service function chains (SFCs) …

SFC-based multi-domain service customization and deployment

C Zhang, Y Liu, S Zhang, H Yang, F Li… - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to satisfy diversified service demands, future networks are expected to provide
higher quality network services, especially in 5G scenarios. Network Function Virtualization …