The advent of virtualization-based infrastructure needed for 5G brought new challenges in
utilizing the existing physical network infrastructure effectively. Designing physical routes …

As a new way to design, deploy, and manage network services, network functions
virtualization (NFV) decouples the network functions, from one or more physical network …

Today, a cloud system user can select a specific type of virtual machine for deployment
based on needs, for instance memory or storage size. In terms of networking, however, no …

In academic inter-cloud environments, virtual machines communicate with other virtual
machines in different virtual L2 network segments through a virtual router. As virtual routers …

One of the objectives of organizing cloud systems is to ensure effective access to remote
resources by optimizing traffic engineering (TE) procedures. This paper considers the traffic …

Abstract The emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enabled decoupling
network functionality from dedicated hardware and placing them upon generic computing …

The multi-tier architecture is prevalently adopted by cloud applications, such as the three-tier
web application. It is highly desirable for both tenants and providers to provide virtual …

The virtual network (VN) concept has been studied as a useful mean in supporting rapid
service creation and deployment. This paper proposes a scheme for allocating resources to …

In the cloud environment, network functions virtualization (NFV) means to diminish cost and
disentangle tasks of such system benefits through the virtualization advancements. To …

An important evolution of the users' needs is represented by the on-demand access to the
network, storage, and compute resources in order to dynamically match the level of resource …