The advancing applications based on machine learning and deep learning in
communication networks have been exponentially increasing in the system architectures of …

Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is an emerging aspect of the 5G vertical application.
Network function virtualization (NFV) is the key enabling technology of 5G and beyond 5G …

Cognizant of the ease with which softwarized functions can be dynamically scaled according
to real time resource requirements, and the fact that multiple services can have common …

With the advent of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Mobile Edge Computing
(MEC), outsourcing network functions (NFs) to the MEC is becoming popular among network …

Chaos Engineering represents an interesting software engineering methodology to improve
the resilience of a complex IT system operating in a live production environment by injecting …

Testing the resiliency of complex IT services deployed in hybrid Cloud scenarios is a
challenging task that requires expensive and possibly destructive operations. An interesting …

Emerging artificial intelligence techniques enable the Internet-connected devices
automatically generate massive SFC requests in scenarios with ultra-reliability demands …

Abstract The emergence of Network Function Virtualization enables the deployment of
network services in the form of service function chains. In this context, one of the key …

The network function virtualization (NFV) paradigm is rapidly being adopted by enterprises
and service providers as an alternative to proprietary hardware. It enables virtual network …

The explosive development of the Internet of Things (IOT) has stimulated the sudden and
dynamic demand pattern of potential Service Function Chain (SFC) traffic. The virtual …