The traditional networks are facing difficulties in managing the services offered by cloud
computing, big data, and the Internet of Things as the users have become more dependent …

Software-defined networking (SDN) plays a crucial role in the enterprise and wide-area
networking. The increasing demand for strict service-level agreement applications on the …

Hypervisors use software switches to steer packets to and from virtual machines (VMs).
These switches frequently need upgrading and customization—to support new protocol …

The end of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling has slowed processor improvements in the
past decade. While multi-core processors have improved performance, they are limited by …

Virtual switches, like Open vSwitch, have emerged as an important part of today's data
centers. They connect interfaces of virtual machines and provide an uplink to the physical …

New paradigms in networking industry, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), require the hypervisors to enable the execution of …

As the complexity of modern networks increases, virtualization techniques, such as software-
defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), get highlighted to …

Mobile Cloud Computing: Foundations and Service Models combines cloud computing,
mobile computing and wireless networking to bring new computational resources for mobile …

The virtualization of network functions is promising significant cost reductions for network
operators. Running multiple network functions on a standard x86 server instead of dedicated …

The NFV paradigm transforms those applications executed for decades in dedicated
appliances, into software images to be consolidated in standard server. Although NFV is …