Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has promoted the implementation of network functions
from expensive hardwares to software middleboxes. These software middleboxes, also …

Software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) are making
networks programmable and consequently much more flexible and agile. To meet service …

As the cloud native landscape flourishes, microservices emerge as a central pillar for
contemporary software development, enabling agility, resilience, and scalability in modern …

Network softwarization (NetSoft) is accepted as the most promising technology towards
flexible resource management and scheduling for upcoming 5G and B5G networks. With …

More and more complex services composed of a series of sequentially arranged
middleboxes which are mainly used to meet the requirements of advanced services such as …

With the rapid development of intelligent transportation systems, in-vehicle edge computing
networks serve as key infrastructures to provide strong support for vehicle communication …

As a key technology of 5G, NFV has attracted much attention. In addition, monitoring plays
an important role, and can be widely used for virtual network function placement and …

Network functions virtualization (NFV) mainly meets the various performance requirements
of network services and improves the performance/cost ratio through the decoupling of …

The proliferation of the ever-increasing number of highly heterogeneous smart devices and
the emerging of a wide range of diverse applications in 5G mobile network ecosystems …

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for the network slicing problem which
attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a …