A survey on the placement of virtual resources and virtual network functions

A Laghrissi, T Taleb - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud computing and network slicing are essential concepts of forthcoming 5G mobile
systems. Network slices are essentially chunks of virtual computing and connectivity …

NFV security survey: From use case driven threat analysis to state-of-the-art countermeasures

M Pattaranantakul, R He, Q Song… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network functions virtualization (NFV), along with software-defined networking (SDN), drives
a new change in networking infrastructure with respect to designing, deploying, and …

Reliability-aware virtualized network function services provisioning in mobile edge computing

M Huang, W Liang, X Shen, Y Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Along with Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is
becoming a new computing paradigm that enables accommodating innovative applications …

Service Function Chaining security survey: Addressing security challenges and threats

M Pattaranantakul, C Vorakulpipat, T Takahashi - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm and it has attracted
considerable attention from both the industry and academia because of its potential to …

On the trade-off between computational load and reliability for network function virtualization

J Kang, O Simeone, J Kang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization enables the “softwarization” of network functions, which are
implemented on virtual machines hosted on commercial off-the-shelf servers. Both the …

Cost and availability aware resource allocation and virtual function placement for CDNaaS provision

L Yala, PA Frangoudis, G Lucarelli… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the fundamental tradeoff between deployment cost and service availability in
the context of on-demand content delivery service provision over a telecom operator's …

VNF availability and SFC sizing model for service provider networks

S Sharma, A Engelmann, A Jukan, A Gumaste - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers service provider network design with a view of meeting application
availability. Our primary goal is to design a service provider network using disparate network …

Availability-guaranteed slice composition for service function chains in 5G transport networks

R Gour, G Ishigaki, J Kong, JP Jue - Journal of Optical …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Availability is a key service metric when deploying service function chains (SFCs) over
network slices in 5G networks. We study the problem of determining the composition of a …

Availability-driven NFV orchestration

M Casazza, M Bouet, S Secci - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Virtual Network Functions as a Service (VNFaaS) is a promising business whose
technical directions consist of providing network functions as a Service instead of delivering …

DRL-based energy-efficient baseband function deployments for service-oriented open RAN

H Li, A Emami, KDR Assis, A Vefeas… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) has gained tremendous attention from industry
and academia with decentralized baseband functions across multiple processing units …