Resource allocation in NFV: A comprehensive survey

JG Herrera, JF Botero - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture framework where
network function that traditionally used dedicated hardware (middleboxes or network …

Efficiently embedding service function chains with dynamic virtual network function placement in geo-distributed cloud system

J Pei, P Hong, K Xue, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networks (SDN) enable
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to place Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to achieve the …

Reconfiguration in network slicing—Optimizing the profit and performance

G Wang, G Feng, TQS Quek, S Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing enables diversified services to be accommodated by isolated slices in
network function virtualization-enabled software-defined networks. To maintain satisfactory …

Optimal network function virtualization and service function chaining: A survey

G Mirjalily, Z Luo - Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Network function virtualization (NFV) and Service function chaining (SFC) can fulfill the
traditional network functions by simply running special softwares on general‐purpose …

Orchestrating tree-type VNF forwarding graphs in inter-DC elastic optical networks

M Zeng, W Fang, Z Zhu - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016 - opg.optica.org
It is known that by incorporating network function virtualization (NFV) in inter-datacenter
(inter-DC) networks, service providers can use their network resources more efficiently and …

Resource allocation for network slices in 5G with network resource pricing

G Wang, G Feng, W Tan, S Qin… - … 2017-2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
End-to-end network slicing has been viewed as a key enabler for the next generation mobile
network (5G), where a Slice Provider (SP) creates various network slices for Slice …

Deterministic latency/jitter-aware service function chaining over beyond 5G edge fabric

H Yu, T Taleb, J Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deterministic Networking (DetNet) has recently attracted much attention. It aims at studying
the deterministic bounded latency and low latency variation for time-sensitive applications …

Demand-aware network function placement

T Lin, Z Zhou, M Tornatore… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization is an emerging network resource utilization approach which
decouples network functions from proprietary hardware and enables adaptive services to …

On incentive-driven VNF service chaining in inter-datacenter elastic optical networks: A hierarchical game-theoretic mechanism

X Chen, Z Zhu, R Proietti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an incentive-driven virtual network function service chaining (VNF-
SC) framework for optimizing the cross-stratum resource provisioning in multi-broker …

Optimizing network slice dimensioning via resource pricing

G Wang, G Feng, S Qin, R Wen, S Sun - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing has been viewed as a key enabler for the next-generation software-defined
and cloud-based network (eg, 5G and beyond) to accommodate diverse services in a …