SARM: service function chain active reconfiguration mechanism based on load and demand prediction

J Cai, K Qian, J Luo, K Zhu - International Journal of Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Network function virtualization is a promising technology for providing personalized services
via agile service function chains (SFCs). Flexible SFC orchestration and rational resource …

An approach for service function chain reconfiguration in network function virtualization architectures

Y Liu, H Lu, X Li, D Zhao - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) technology continues gaining attention as a paradigm
shift, and telecommunication services can be flexibly deployed and managed, resulting in …

Low-latency and resource-efficient service function chaining orchestration in network function virtualization

G Sun, Z Xu, H Yu, X Chen, V Chang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, network function virtualization (NFV) has been proposed to solve the dilemma
faced by traditional networks and to improve network performance through hardware and …

An approach for service function chain routing and virtual function network instance migration in network function virtualization architectures

V Eramo, E Miucci, M Ammar… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization foresees the virtualization of service functions and their
execution on virtual machines. Any service is represented by a service function chain (SFC) …

Prioritized deployment of dynamic service function chains

B Farkiani, B Bakhshi, SA MirHassani… - IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining and Network Function Virtualization are enabling technologies
that provide dynamic network services with diverse QoS requirements. Regarding the limited …

Virtual network function migration based on dynamic resource requirements prediction

L Tang, X He, P Zhao, G Zhao, Y Zhou, Q Chen - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) enables flexible deployment of virtual network function
(VNF) in 5G mobile communication network. Due to the inherent dynamics of network flows …

On dynamic service function chain deployment and readjustment

J Liu, W Lu, F Zhou, P Lu, Z Zhu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology to decouple the network
functions from dedicated hardware elements, leading to the significant cost reduction in …

On dynamic service function chain reconfiguration in IoT networks

Y Liu, Y Lu, X Li, Z Yao, D Zhao - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) technology continues to gain more attention as a
paradigm shift, and telecommunication services can be flexibly deployed and managed. Any …

A reinforcement learning-based approach for availability-aware service function chain placement in large-scale networks

GL Santos, PT Endo, T Lynn, D Sadok… - Future Generation …, 2022 - Elsevier
By decoupling network service functions from custom-built hardware, network function
virtualization is transforming network service provisioning, making large scale …

A fine-grained and dynamic scaling method for service function chains

D Zhai, X Meng, Z Yu, H Hu, X Han - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising approach to solve network ossification,
which provides network services through virtual network function (VNF). However, the …