The modern science of networks has made significant advancement in the modeling of
complex real-world systems. One of the most important features in these networks is the …

Service function chaining is a network capability that provides support for application-driven-
networking through the ordered interconnection of service functions. The lifecycle …

Diverse proprietary network appliances increase both the capital and operational expense
of service providers, meanwhile causing problems of network ossification. Network function …

Cloud computing is gaining significant attention and virtualized datacenters are becoming
popular as a cost-effective infrastructure. The network services are transitioning from a host …

It is widely acknowledged that network slicing can tackle the diverse usage scenarios and
connectivity services that the 5G-and-beyond system needs to support. To guarantee …

Abstract Service Function Chaining (SFC) is the problem of deploying various network
service instances over geographically distributed data centers and providing inter …

Network function virtualization (NFV) decouples software implementations of network
functions from their hosts (or hardware). NFV exposes a new set of entities, the virtualized …

In an operator's datacenter, optical technologies can be employed to perform network
function (NF) chaining for larger aggregated flows in parallel with the conventional packet …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technique to greatly improve the
effectiveness and flexibility of network services through a process named Service Function …

Software-defined networking (SDN) features the decoupling of the control plane and data
plane, a programmable network and virtualization, which enables network infrastructure …