Network virtualization is recognized as an enabling technology for the future Internet. It aims
to overcome the resistance of the current Internet to architectural change. Application of this …

With the development of telecommunication technologies and the proliferation of network
applications in the past decades, the traditional cloud network architecture becomes unable …

Virtual network embedding arranges virtual network services onto substrate network
components. The performance of embedding algorithms determines the effectiveness and …

Network virtualization can offer more flexibility and better maintainability for the current
Internet through allowing multiple heterogeneous virtual networks (VNs) to share the …

Network virtualization helps overcome shortcomings of the current Internet architecture. The
virtualized network architecture enables coexistence of multiple virtual networks (VNs) on an …

Virtual network embedding (VNE) is an important problem in network virtualization for the
flexible sharing of network resources. While most existing studies focus on centralized …

Virtual network embedding, which means mapping virtual networks requested by users to a
shared substrate network maintained by an Internet service provider, is a key function that …

The issue of virtual network (VN) embedding constitutes an important aspect of network
virtualization, which is considered to be one of the most crucial techniques to overcome the …

Network slicing in 5G is expected to essentially change the way in which network operators
deploy and manage vertical services with different performance requirements. Efficient and …

To fend off the ossification of Internet architecture, virtual network embedding has been
propounded as one of the most important techniques to address this issue. Virtual network …