Virtual Network Embedding: Literature Assessment, Recent Advancements, Opportunities, and Challenges

A Satpathy, MN Sahoo, C Swain… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network virtualization (NV) allows service providers (SPs) to instantiate logically isolated
entities called virtual networks (VNs) on top of a substrate network (SN). Though VNs bring …

A novel reinforcement learning algorithm for virtual network embedding

H Yao, X Chen, M Li, P Zhang, L Wang - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Network virtualization enables the share of a physical network among multiple virtual
networks. Virtual network embedding determines the effectiveness of utilization of network …

Security-aware virtual network embedding algorithm based on reinforcement learning

P Zhang, C Wang, C Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual network embedding (VNE) algorithm is always the key problem in network
virtualization (NV) technology. At present, the research in this field still has the following …

A continuous-decision virtual network embedding scheme relying on reinforcement learning

H Yao, S Ma, J Wang, P Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Virtualization (NV) techniques allow multiple virtual network requests to beneficially
share resources on the same substrate network, such as node computational resources and …

RKD-VNE: Virtual network embedding algorithm assisted by resource knowledge description and deep reinforcement learning in IIoT scenario

P Zhang, P Gan, N Kumar, CH Hsu, S Shen… - Future Generation …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the era of Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is developing rapidly, various
IIoT applications pose new challenges to the existing network architecture. On the one hand …

A literature survey of HUB location problems and methods with emphasis on the marine transportations

A Zabihi, M Gharakhani - Uncertain Supply Chain …, 2018 - growingscience.com
This article presents a broad review of Hub location problem (HLP), and its applications. The
goal of this article is to provide a review on the newest and most recent publications on Hub …

RDAM: A reinforcement learning based dynamic attribute matrix representation for virtual network embedding

H Yao, B Zhang, P Zhang, S Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network virtualization makes it possible to manage multiple virtual networks simultaneously
on substrate physical networks. Virtual network embedding (VNE) is the critical step of …

Graph convolutional network aided virtual network embedding for Internet of Thing

S Ma, H Yao, T Mai, J Yang, W He… - … on Network Science …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past few years have seen the dramatic adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) in
everyday life, from manufacturing to healthcare. With the emergence of various new Internet …

NORD: NOde Ranking-based efficient virtual network embedding over single Domain substrate networks

KK TG, SK Addya, A Satpathy, SG Koolagudi - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Network virtualization (NV) allows the service providers (SPs) to partition the substrate
resources in the form of isolated virtual networks (VNs) comprising multiple correlated virtual …

Inds: Intelligent drl strategy for effective virtual network embedding of an online virtual network requests

TGK Kumar, SK Addya, SG Koolagudi - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network virtualization is a demanding feature in the evolution of future Internet architectures.
It enables on-demand virtualized resource provision for heterogeneous Virtual Network …