Energy-and reliability-aware provisioning of parallelized service function chains with delay guarantees

VR Chintapalli, BR Killi, R Partani… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) leverages virtualization and cloud computing
technologies to make networks more flexible, manageable, and scalable. Instead of using …

Energy efficient and delay aware deployment of parallelized service function chains in NFV-based networks

VR Chintapalli, R Partani, BR Tamma - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) replaces traditional hardware-based
network equipment and middleboxes with flexible Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) in …

Cost-aware service function chaining with reliability guarantees in NFV-enabled Inter-DC network

X Zhong, Y Wang, X Qiu - 2019 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) moves hardware-based middleboxes to software-
defined virtual network functions (VNFs) running on standard machines. By incorporating …

Energy-efficient provisioning for service function chains to support delay-sensitive applications in network function virtualization

G Sun, R Zhou, J Sun, H Yu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The efficient deployment of virtual network functions (VNFs) for network service provisioning
is key for achieving network function virtualization (NFV); however, most existing studies …

Efficient Online Scheduling of Service Function Chains Across Multiple Geo-Distributed Regions

R He, B Ren, J Xie, D Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional network functions are typically implemented using specialized hardware
appliances, which are expensive and difficult to upgrade. Network Function Virtualization …

Improving reliability of service function chains with combined VNF migrations and replications

F Carpio, A Jukan - arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08965, 2017 - arxiv.org
The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is enabling flexibility, programmability
and implementation of traditional network functions into generic hardware, in form of Virtual …

Speedybox: Low-latency nfv service chains with cross-nf runtime consolidation

Y Jiang, Y Cui, W Wu, Z Xu, J Gu… - 2019 IEEE 39th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-based service chains in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) typically suffers high
processing latency. This latency grows as chain lengths increase and possibly violates …

Application-and reliability-aware service function chaining to support low-latency applications in an NFV-enabled network

MM Erbati, G Schiele - 2021 IEEE Conference on Network …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future network architectures supporting 5G, 6G, Internet of Things (IoT), and fixed line
networks face diverse service requirements in various scenarios, particularly by growing …

HybridSFC: Accelerating service function chains with parallelism

Y Zhang, ZL Zhang, B Han - 2019 IEEE Conference on Network …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) coupled with Software Defined Networking (SDN)
creates new opportunities as well as substantial challenges such as increased Service …

Reliability-aware service chaining in carrier-grade softwarized networks

L Qu, M Khabbaz, C Assi - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has revolutionized service provisioning in cloud
datacenter networks. It enables the complete decoupling of Network Functions (NFs) from …