Service function chaining resource allocation: A survey

Y Xie, Z Liu, S Wang, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00095, 2016 - arxiv.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a crucial technology for future Internet. It aims to
overcome the limitation of current deployment models which is rigid and static. Application of …

{ENVI}: elastic resource flexing for network function virtualization

L Cao, P Sharma, S Fahmy, V Saxena - 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot …, 2017 - usenix.org
Dynamic and elastic resource allocation to Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in accordance
with varying workloads is a must for realizing promised reductions in capital and operational …

On-demand, dynamic and at-the-edge VNF deployment model application to Web Real-Time Communications

A Boubendir, E Bertin, N Simoni - 2016 12th International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) for network operators openness towards Over-
The-Top (OTTs) players, we propose an “On-demand and Dynamic Deployment Model for …

Data-driven resource flexing for network functions visualization

L Cao, S Fahmy, P Sharma, S Zhe - Proceedings of the 2018 Symposium …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Resource flexing is the notion of allocating resources on-demand as workload changes.
This is a key advantage of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) over their non-virtualized …

Flexibility and dynamicity for open network-as-a-service: From VNF and architecture modeling to deployment

A Boubendir, E Bertin, N Simoni - NOMS 2018-2018 IEEE/IFIP …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This dissertation paper synthesizes our contributions in the network openness context to
achieve a flexible and dynamic Network-as-a-Service (NaaS). Tackling several challenges …

Data-driven resource allocation in virtualized environments

L Cao - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Modern advances in virtualization technologies have revolutionized the way we build and
manage computer systems. Virtualization technologies, however, adversely impact the …