B-scale: Bottleneck-aware VNF scaling and flow routing in edge clouds

C Chen, L Nagel, L Cui, FP Tso - 2022 IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the ever-growing demand for low-latency network applications, edge computing
emerges as a new paradigm that provides computation and storage resources in close …

Joint Virtual Network Function Placement and Flow Routing in Edge-Cloud Continuum

Y Mao, X Shang, Y Liu, Y Yang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is becoming one of the most popular paradigms for
providing cost-efficient, flexible, and easily-managed network services by migrating network …

ENSC: Multi-resource hybrid scaling for elastic network service chain in clouds

H Yu, J Yang, C Fung, R Boutaba… - 2018 IEEE 24th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-based network service chains in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) need to be
dynamically allocated and scaled on hardware resources. This is because the resource …

Latency-aware virtualized network function provisioning for distributed edge clouds

J Son, R Buyya - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enabled decoupling
network functionality from dedicated hardware and placing them upon generic computing …

Latency-aware VNF chain deployment with efficient resource reuse at network edge

P Jin, X Fei, Q Zhang, F Liu, B Li - IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing demand of low-latency network services, mobile edge computing (MEC)
emerges as a new paradigm, which provides server resources and processing capacities in …

An online placement scheme for VNF chains in geo-distributed clouds

R Zhou - 2018 IEEE/ACM 26th International Symposium on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) provides virtualized network services through service
chains of virtual network functions (VNFs). VNFs typically execute on virtual machines in a …

Delay-aware virtual network function placement and routing in edge clouds

S Yang, F Li, S Trajanovski, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers a way to shorten the cloud servicing delay by building
the small-scale cloud infrastructures at the network edge, which are in close proximity to the …

Sum of squares: a new metric for NFV service chain placement in edge computing environments and efficient heuristic algorithms

Z Chen, S Zhang, Z Qian, C Wang, M Xiao… - CCF Transactions on …, 2020 - Springer
Both network function virtualization (NFV) and edge computing (EC), especially the latter,
are attracting more and more attention in recent years. A growing number of network service …

Balancing delay and cost in virtual network function placement and chaining

A Leivadeas, M Falkner, I Lambadaris… - 2018 4th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has proliferated the way network services are offered
to the end users. Individual network functions are decoupled from expensive and dedicated …

Joint resource management and flow scheduling for SFC deployment in hybrid edge-and-cloud network

Y Mao, X Shang, Y Yang - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) migrates network functions from proprietary hardware
to commercial servers on the edge or cloud, making network services more cost-efficient …