Proposal and investigation of a reconfiguration cost aware policy for resource allocation in multi-provider NFV infrastructures interconnected by elastic optical …

V Eramo, FG Lavacca - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes and investigates a reconfiguration policy of cloud and bandwidth
resources in network function virtualization environments in which the network function …

Reconfiguration of optical-NFV network architectures based on cloud resource allocation and QoS degradation cost-aware prediction techniques

V Eramo, FG Lavacca, T Catena, F Di Giorgio - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high time required for the deployment of cloud resources in Network Function
Virtualization network architectures has led to the proposal and investigation of algorithms …

A cost-efficient, load-balanced and fragmentation-aware approach for deployment of VNF service chains in Elastic Optical Networks

A Khatiri, G Mirjalily - Computer Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract By emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV), service providers use VNFs
(Virtual Network Functions) and VNF service chain (VNF-SC) as an agile, scalable, and cost …

Demand-aware network function placement

T Lin, Z Zhou, M Tornatore… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization is an emerging network resource utilization approach which
decouples network functions from proprietary hardware and enables adaptive services to …

Virtual network embedding and reconfiguration in elastic optical networks

S Shakya, N Pradhan, X Cao, Z Ye… - 2014 IEEE Global …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent innovations in Network Virtualization and Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) enable
flexible deployment of optical networks as a service. However, one open challenge is how to …

Delay-aware and resource-efficient service function chain mapping in inter-datacenter elastic optical networks

M Zhu, J Gu, T Shen, J Zhang, P Gu - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is emerging as a promising paradigm for network
architectures. By migrating network functions from dedicated hardware appliances to …

Minimum-cost survivable virtual optical network mapping in flexible bandwidth optical networks

B Chen, J Zhang, W Xie, JP Jue, Y Zhao… - 2014 IEEE Global …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the minimum network cost problem for survivable virtual optical
network mapping in flexible bandwidth optical networks. We develop an ILP model and the …

Balanced resource allocation for VNF service chain provisioning in inter-datacenter elastic optical networks

A Khatiri, G Mirjalily, ZQ Luo - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a novel technology that enables flexible
and cost-effective network services by replacing the hardware-based middleboxes with …

Multicast service-oriented virtual network mapping over elastic optical networks

X Gao, Z Ye, W Zhong, C Qiao, X Cao… - 2015 IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) allows multiple Virtual Networks (VNs) to share the
underlying physical infrastructure via VN mapping, thus improving the utilization of physical …

Optimizing the cloud resources, bandwidth and deployment costs in multi-providers network function virtualization environment

V Eramo, FG Lavacca - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of network function virtualization (NFV) leads to a new business model in
which the Telecommunication Service Provider needs to rent cloud resources to …