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 …

Networks have grown increasingly complicated. Violations of intended policies can
compromise network availability and network reliability. Network operators need to ensure …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a disruptive networking architecture
whose galloping evolution is prompting enterprises to outsource network functions to the …

Existing network policy abstractions handle basic group based reachability and access
control list based security policies. However, QoS policies as well as dynamic policies are …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) offers service delivery flexibility and reduces overall
costs by running service function chains (SFCs) on commodity servers with many cores …

Accurate and thorough analysis of network performance is challenging. Network simulations
and emulations can only cover a subset of the continuously evolving set of workloads …

Due to the abstraction of physical resources and heavy use of virtualization in the context of
Service Function Chaining (SFC), verification of the processing and that forwarding of traffic …

As is the case for Web services and Cloud services, network slices that are marketed and
provisioned in an automated manner need to be accompanied by a Service-Level …

As one of the main technology pillars of 5G networks, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
enables agile and cost-effective deployment of network services. However, the multi-level …

By virtualizing proprietary hardware networking devices, Network Functions Virtualization
(NFV) allows agile and cost-effective deployment of diverse network services for multiple …