Multicast offers great benefits in many emerging applications such as federated learning,
metaverse, and data warehouse. Recently, due to the frequent cyber-attacks, multicast …

Frequent cyber-attacks force the service provider to employ security-aware service functions
(SFs) to accommodate client network requests. Thanks to virtualization techniques' maturity …

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 …

With the advent of zero trust (ZT) security architectures, vendors can bolster their services'
security by continuously verifying every end-to-end traffic flow through the policy …

Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm and it has attracted
considerable attention from both the industry and academia because of its potential to …

Emerging artificial intelligence techniques enable the Internet-connected devices
automatically generate massive SFC requests in scenarios with ultra-reliability demands …

With the emergence of network function virtualization (NFV), and software-defined
networking (SDN), the realization and implementation of service function chains (SFCs) …

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) …

Network function virtualization (NFV) decouples network functions (NFs) from dedicated
hardware, leading to significant cost reduction in network service provisioning. With NFV, a …

Abstract Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered list of dynamically deployed virtual
service/network functions (SFs). In a software defined SFC, Network Function Virtualization …