Deterministic latency/jitter-aware service function chaining over beyond 5G edge fabric

H Yu, T Taleb, J Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deterministic Networking (DetNet) has recently attracted much attention. It aims at studying
the deterministic bounded latency and low latency variation for time-sensitive applications …

Adaptive service function chaining mappings in 5G using deep Q-learning

G Li, B Feng, H Zhou, Y Zhang, K Sood, S Yu - Computer Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract With introduction of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) technologies, mobile network operators are able to provide on-demand …

Cloud-native service function chaining for 5G based on network service mesh

B Dab, I Fajjari, M Rohon, C Auboin… - ICC 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G will provide a flexible and programmable infrastructure, allowing different networks to
share the same access network. A way to respond to the diverse service requirements of 5G …

On demonstrating the gain of sfc placement with vnf sharing at the edge

A Mohamad, HS Hassanein - 2019 IEEE Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demand for edge resources is increasing and will continue to rise especially because of
delay-sensitive applications. Because of the limited resources at the network edge, efficient …

Towards optimal parallelism-aware service chaining and embedding

D Zheng, G Shen, X Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging 5G technologies can significantly reduce end-to-end service latency for
applications requiring strict quality of service (QoS). With network function virtualization …

Reliable dynamic service chain scheduling in 5G networks

L Yang, J Jia, H Lin, J Cao - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a key enabler of future 5G network, Service Function Chain (SFC) forwards the traffic flow
along a chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to provide network services flexibility. One …

FlexChain: Bridging parallelism and placement for service function chains

S Xie, J Ma, J Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Service Function Chain (SFC) is an ordered sequence of network functions (NFs). With the
emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, NFs can be deployed as …

Latency-aware service function chain placement in 5G mobile networks

D Harutyunyan, N Shahriar, R Boutaba… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The 5th generation mobile network (5G) is expected to support numerous services with
versatile quality of service (QoS) requirements such as high data rates and low end-to-end …

Service function chaining in 5G & beyond networks: Challenges and open research issues

H Hantouti, N Benamar, T Taleb - IEEE Network, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm, which has helped to introduce
unseen flexibility in telecom networks. Network service providers, as well as big network …

Reliability-aware dynamic service chain scheduling in 5G networks based on reinforcement learning

J Jia, L Yang, J Cao - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a key enabler of future 5G network, Service Function Chain (SFC) forwards the traffic flow
along a chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to provide network services flexibility. One …