Recent advances of resource allocation in network function virtualization

S Yang, F Li, S Trajanovski… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

Vnf and cnf placement in 5g: Recent advances and future trends

W Attaoui, E Sabir, H Elbiaze… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for the most of mobile network operators …

FH-ACO: Fuzzy heuristic-based ant colony optimization for joint virtual network function placement and routing

M Shokouhifar - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new networking paradigm, which replaces the
specific-purpose hardware appliances with software virtualization to perform network …

[HTML][HTML] A dynamic planning model for deploying service functions chain in fog-cloud computing

Y Zhang, F Zhang, S Tong, A Rezaeipanah - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fog computing allows services to be deployed on computing resources at the edge of the
network to address the limitations of centralized cloud systems. However, the adoption of fog …

Age of information aware VNF scheduling in industrial IoT using deep reinforcement learning

M Akbari, MR Abedi, R Joda… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In delay-sensitive industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, the age of information (AoI)
is employed to characterize the freshness of information. Meanwhile, the emerging network …

Scalable orchestration of service function chains in NFV-enabled networks: A federated reinforcement learning approach

H Huang, C Zeng, Y Zhao, G Min, Y Zhu… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is critical to the scalability and flexibility of various
network services in the form of service function chains (SFCs), which refer to a set of Virtual …

A survey on the placement of virtual network functions

J Sun, Y Zhang, F Liu, H Wang, X Xu, Y Li - Journal of Network and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dependence of traditional network functions (NFs) on special hardware results in high
capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX). Network Function …

Virtualized network function forwarding graph placing in SDN and NFV-enabled IoT networks: A graph neural network assisted deep reinforcement learning method

Y Xie, L Huang, Y Kong, S Wang, S Xu… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With an ambitious increase in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) terminals, IoT networks
face a huge challenge which is providing diverse and complex network services with …

DDQP: A double deep Q-learning approach to online fault-tolerant SFC placement

L Wang, W Mao, J Zhao, Y Xu - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since Network Function Virtualization (NFV) decouples network functions (NFs) from the
underlying dedicated hardware and realizes them in the form of software called Virtual …

基于深度强化学习的组合优化研究进展

李凯文, 张涛, 王锐, 覃伟健, 贺惠晖, 黄鸿 - 自动化学报, 2021 - aas.net.cn
组合优化问题广泛存在于国防, 交通, 工业, 生活等各个领域, 几十年来, 传统运筹优化方法是解决
组合优化问题的主要手段, 但随着实际应用中问题规模的不断扩大, 求解实时性的要求越来越高 …