Dapper: Deploying Service Function Chains in the Programmable Data Plane Via Deep Reinforcement Learning

X Zhang, L Cui, FP Tso, Z Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network functions perform specific packet processing on network traffic. To meet operators'
needs, forming service function chains (SFCs) is a fundamental technique used in today's …

Compiling service function chains via fine-grained composition in the programmable data plane

X Zhang, L Cui, FP Tso, W Jia - IEEE Transactions on Services …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service function chains (SFCs) are fundamental services in today's datacenters and ISP
networks. Explosive volume of network traffic creates high demands for low latency and high …

pSFC: Fine-grained composition of service function chains in the programmable data plane

X Zhang, L Cui, FP Tso - 2022 22nd IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic service function chains (SFC) are enabled by network function virtualization on
general purpose servers. The emergence of programmable data planes (PDP) has offered a …

Drl-deploy: adaptive service function chains deployment with deep reinforcement learning

X Wei, Y Sheng, L Li, C Zhou - 2021 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function
virtualization (NFV), the service function chain (SFC) has become a popular paradigm for …

sfc2cpu: Operating a service function chain platform with neural combinatorial optimization

P Krämer, P Diederich, C Krämer… - 2021 IFIP/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining realized with a microservice based architecture results in an
increased number of computationally cheap Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Pinning …

Machine learning based link state aware service function chaining

S Jeong, H Kim, JH Yoo… - 2019 20th Asia-Pacific …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) can be a basic deployment unit that composes a chaining
order of required network functions to provide a network service. With the proliferation of …

FlexNF: Flexible network function orchestration on the programmable data plane

H Zhao, Q Li, J Duan, Y Jiang… - 2021 IEEE/ACM 29th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, Programmable Data Plane (PDP) has been leveraged to offload Network
Functions (NFs). Due to its high processing capabilities, programmable data plane can …

A Two-Stage GCN-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for SFC Embedding in Multi-Datacenter Networks

D Xiao, JA Zhang, X Liu, Y Qu, W Ni… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV), which decouples network functions from hardware
and transforms them into Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), is a crucial technology for data …

A machine learning approach for service function chain embedding in cloud datacenter networks

TJ Wassing, D De Vleeschauwer… - 2021 IEEE 10th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an industry effort to replace traditional hardware
middleboxes with virtualized network functions (VNFs) running on general-build hardware …

Reinforcement learning of graph neural networks for service function chaining

DN Heo, D Lee, HG Kim, S Park, H Choi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.08406, 2020 - arxiv.org
In the management of computer network systems, the service function chaining (SFC)
modules play an important role by generating efficient paths for network traffic through …