Energy-Aware Adaptive Scaling of Server Farms for NFV with Reliability Requirements

J Perez-Valero, A Banchs, P Serrano… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Auto-scaling techniques aim to keep the right number of active servers for the current load: if
this number is too small we risk service disruption, but if it is too large we waste resources …

Performance trade-offs of auto scaling schemes for NFV with reliability requirements

J Perez-Valero, J Garcia-Reinoso, A Banchs… - Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
A major concern for future mobile networks is to meet extremely stringent reliability
requirements without incurring very high energy consumption. To this aim, we need auto …

Analysis of scaling policies for NFV providing 5G/6G reliability levels with fallible servers

J Ortin, P Serrano, J Garcia-Reinoso… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The softwarization of mobile networks enables an efficient use of resources, by dynamically
scaling and re-assigning them following variations in demand. Given that the activation of …

Towards chain-aware scaling detection in nfv with reinforcement learning

L He, L Li, Y Liu - … IEEE/ACM 29th International Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elastic scaling enables dynamic and efficient re-source provisioning in Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) to serve fluctuating network traffic. Scaling detection determines the …

A proactive auto-scaling scheme with latency guarantees for multi-tenant NFV cloud

G Hu, Q Li, S Ai, T Chen, J Duan, Y Wu - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology to provide packet
processing services. However, dynamic capacity provisioning to meet different tenants' time …

Towards autonomous VNF auto-scaling using deep reinforcement learning

P Soto, D De Vleeschauwer, M Camelo… - … on Software Defined …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is one of the main enablers behind the promised
improvements in the Fifth Generation (5G) networking era. Thanks to this concept, Network …

Environment-adaptive sizing and placement of NFV service chains with accelerated reinforcement learning

M Nakanoya, Y Sato… - 2019 IFIP/IEEE symposium …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As network function virtualization spread, network service providers have been able to
deliver various networks flexibly and rapidly. In particular, products and services that build …

Forecasting assisted VNF scaling in NFV-enabled networks

Y Yao, S Guo, P Li, G Liu, Y Zeng - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
As a new promising technology, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) converts hardware
based network function into software module running on virtual machines, for cost reduction …

Scalable provisioning of virtual network functions via supervised learning

A Scalingi, F Esposito, W Muhammad… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is opening new opportunities for both the business
and the research community. As the need to softwarize functions grows, managing the …

Auto-scaling network service chains using machine learning and negotiation game

S Rahman, T Ahmed, M Huynh… - … on Network and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables Network Operators (NOs) to efficiently
respond to the increasing dynamicity of network services. Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) …