Emerging 5G technologies can significantly reduce end-to-end service latency for
applications requiring strict quality of service (QoS). With network function virtualization …

Deploying microservice instances on the edge device close to end users can provide on-site
processing thus reducing request response time. Each microservice has multiple instances …

The parallel processing of the service function chain (SFC) is expected to provide better low-
delay service delivery, because it breaks through the bottleneck of traditional serial …

In Network Function Virtualization (NFV), a series of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
organized in a specific order (called Service Function Chain, SFC) could offer an end-to-end …

Network function virtualization can decouple the traditional network function from the
dedicated hardware, abstracts the software-based virtual network function from the …

Network function virtualization (NFV) enables network operators to save costs and flexibility
by replacing dedicated hardware with software network functions running on commodity …

As a key technology of 5G, network function virtualization enables each monolithic service to
be divided into microservices, facilitating their deployment and management in edge …

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

The introduction of network function virtualization (NFV) leads to service function chain
(SFC) deployment problems, promoting the idea of composing network services as …

The fast development of virtual network functions (VNFs) brings new challenges to providing
reliability. The widely adopted approach of deploying backups incurs financial costs and …