NFV resource allocation: A systematic review and taxonomy of VNF forwarding graph embedding

F Schardong, I Nunes, A Schaeffer-Filho - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The emergence of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) is drastically reshaping
the arrangement of network functions. Instead of being built on dedicated hardware (network …

Research challenges in nextgen service orchestration

LM Vaquero, F Cuadrado, Y Elkhatib… - Future Generation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fog/edge computing, function as a service, and programmable infrastructures, like software-
defined networking or network function virtualisation, are becoming ubiquitously used in …

The communication complexity of correlation

P Harsha, R Jain, D McAllester… - … -Second Annual IEEE …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We examine the communication required for generating random variables remotely. One
party Alice is given a distribution D, and she has to send a message to Bob, who is then …

Optimizing the cloud resources, bandwidth and deployment costs in multi-providers network function virtualization environment

V Eramo, FG Lavacca - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of network function virtualization (NFV) leads to a new business model in
which the Telecommunication Service Provider needs to rent cloud resources to …

Profit maximization for admitting requests with network function services in distributed clouds

Y Ma, W Liang, Z Xu, S Guo - IEEE Transactions on Parallel …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional networks employ expensive dedicated hardware devices as middleboxes to
implement Service Function Chains of user requests by steering data traffic along …

Near-optimal energy-efficient algorithm for virtual network function placement

X Zhang, Z Xu, L Fan, S Yu, Y Qu - IEEE Transactions on Cloud …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To accommodate heterogeneous and sophisticated network services, Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) is invented as a hopeful networking technology. The most distinct …

CoDeC: A cost-effective and delay-aware SFC deployment

F Tashtarian, MF Zhani, B Fatemipour… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chain (SFC) provides an end-to-end service by processing traffic flow
through a series of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in a specific order. Satisfying user's …

Price and performance of cloud-hosted virtual network functions: Analysis and future challenges

N Ghrada, MF Zhani, Y Elkhatib - 2018 4th IEEE Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been introduced as a new
paradigm in the recent few years. NFV offers a number of benefits including significantly …

On ensuring full yet cost-efficient survivability of service function chains in nfv environments

Z Alomari, MF Zhani, M Aloqaily, O Bouachir - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The emergence of Network Function Virtualization enables the deployment of
network services in the form of service function chains. In this context, one of the key …

On improving service chains survivability through efficient backup provisioning

S Aidi, MF Zhani, Y Elkhatib - 2018 14th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function
Virtualization (NFV), large-scale NFV infrastructure deployments are gaining momentum …