Towards resources optimization in deploying service function chains with shared protection

D Zheng, H Fang, S Cao, Y Zhong, X Cao - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Emerging artificial intelligence techniques enable the Internet-connected devices
automatically generate massive SFC requests in scenarios with ultra-reliability demands …

Security-aware Service Function Chaining and Embedding with Asymmetric Dedicated Protection

B Wang, J Li, S Cao, E Guler, D Zheng - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the 5G and beyond 5G networks, achieving security-aware data transmission needs to
convert clients' requests into a service function chain (SFC), each service function (SF) …

Towards service function chaining and embedding for multi-security guarantee levels

B Wang, X Cao, C Peng, J Li… - 2022 IEEE 8th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the emerging 5G networks, achieving security-aware data transmission needs to
converting clients' requests into a service function chain (SFC), each service function (SF) of …

Cost optimization in security-aware service function chain deployment with diverse vendors

D Zheng, X Liu, W Tang, H Xu… - GLOBECOM 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frequent cyber-attacks force the service provider to employ security-aware service functions
(SFs) to accommodate client network requests. Thanks to virtualization techniques' maturity …

Provably Efficient Service Function Chain Embedding and Protection in Edge Networks

D Zheng, X Cao - Authorea Preprints, 2024 - techrxiv.org
Internet-connected devices generate service function chain (SFC) requests for reliability-
sensitive applications such as smart factories and intelligent healthcare. To facilitate reliable …

Service chain provisioning with sub-chain-enabled coordinated protection to satisfy availability requirements

Y Zhang, F He, E Oki - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a sub-chain-enabled coordinated protection model for the availability-
guaranteed service function chain (SFC) provisioning, which considers the availability of …

Availability-aware service chain provisioning with sub-chain-enabled coordinated protection

Y Zhang, F He, E Oki - 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a sub-chain-enabled coordinated protection model for the availability-
guaranteed service function chain (SFC) provisioning, which considers the availability of …

Disaster-resilient service function chain embedding based on multi-path routing

S Cai, F Zhou, Z Zhang… - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By using virtualization technology, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) decouples the
traditional Network Functions (NFs) from dedicated hardware, which allows the software to …

Towards latency optimization in hybrid service function chain composition and embedding

D Zheng, C Peng, X Liao, L Tian… - IEEE INFOCOM 2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Network Function Virtualization (NFV), to satisfy the Service Functions (SFs) requested by
a customer, service providers will composite a Service Function Chain (SFC) and embed it …

Service function chain deployment based on candidate paths

Y Zhang, X Cao, H Yu, G Sun - 2021 International Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) can help telecom operators to decouple Service
Functions (SFs) from specific hardware. Service Function Chains (SFCs) consisting of Virtual …