A comprehensive survey of service function chain provisioning approaches in SDN and NFV architecture

K Kaur, V Mangat, K Kumar - Computer Science Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged as an innovative network
architecture paradigm that uses IT virtualization technology to abstract the network node …

Paving the way for NFV acceleration: A taxonomy, survey and future directions

X Fei, F Liu, Q Zhang, H Jin, H Hu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
As a recent innovation, network functions virtualization (NFV)—with its core concept of
replacing hardware middleboxes with software network functions (NFs) implemented in …

NFP: Enabling network function parallelism in NFV

C Sun, J Bi, Z Zheng, H Yu, H Hu - Proceedings of the Conference of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Software-based sequential service chains in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) could
introduce significant performance overhead. Current acceleration efforts for NFV mainly …

Reducing latency in virtual machines: Enabling tactile Internet for human-machine co-working

Z Xiang, F Gabriel, E Urbano… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) processed in
multi-access edge computing (MEC) cloud systems have been proposed as critical …

Holu: Power-aware and delay-constrained VNF placement and chaining

A Varasteh, B Madiwalar, A Van Bemten… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service function chains (SFCs) are an ordered set of virtual network functions (VNFs) which
can realize a specific network service. Enabled by virtualization technologies, these VNFs …

APPM: adaptive parallel processing mechanism for service function chains

J Cai, Z Huang, L Liao, J Luo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By replacing traditional hardware-based middleboxes with software-based Virtual Network
Functions (VNFs) running on general-purpose servers, network function virtualization …

Availability-and traffic-aware placement of parallelized SFC in data center networks

M Wang, B Cheng, S Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) brings flexible provisioning and great convenience for
enterprises outsource their network functions to the Data Center Networks (DCNs). Network …

On the effective parallelization and near-optimal deployment of service function chains

J Luo, J Li, L Jiao, J Cai - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network operators compose Service Function Chains (SFCs) by tying different network
functions (eg, packet inspection, flow shaping, network address translation) together and …

PacketMill: toward per-Core 100-Gbps networking

A Farshin, T Barbette, A Roozbeh… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present PacketMill, a system for optimizing software packet processing, which (i)
introduces a new model to efficiently manage packet metadata and (ii) employs code …

Microboxes: High performance NFV with customizable, asynchronous TCP stacks and dynamic subscriptions

G Liu, Y Ren, M Yurchenko, KK Ramakrishnan… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Existing network service chaining frameworks are based on a" packet-centric" model where
each NF in a chain is given every packet for processing. This approach becomes both …