Towards low-latency service delivery in a continuum of virtual resources: State-of-the-art and research directions

J Santos, T Wauters, B Volckaert… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advent of softwarized networks has enabled the deployment of chains of virtual network
and service components on computational resources from the cloud up to the edge, creating …

Network function virtualization and service function chaining frameworks: A comprehensive review of requirements, objectives, implementations, and open research …

HU Adoga, DP Pezaros - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
Network slicing has become a fundamental property for next-generation networks,
especially because an inherent part of 5G standardisation is the ability for service providers …

Network management 2030: Operations and control of network 2030 services

A Clemm, MF Zhani, R Boutaba - Journal of Network and Systems …, 2020 - Springer
The networking landscape is expected to undergo profound changes over the course of the
next decade. New network services are expected to emerge that will enable new …

Paving the way for NFV acceleration: A taxonomy, survey and future directions

X Fei, F Liu, Q Zhang, H Jin, H Hu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
As a recent innovation, network functions virtualization (NFV)—with its core concept of
replacing hardware middleboxes with software network functions (NFs) implemented in …

Industry 5.0 is coming: A survey on intelligent nextG wireless networks as technological enablers

S Zeb, A Mahmood, SA Khowaja, K Dev… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Industry 5.0 vision, a step toward the next industrial revolution and enhancement to Industry
4.0, envisioned the new goals of resilient, sustainable, and human-centric approaches in …

Cloud-native service function chaining for 5G based on network service mesh

B Dab, I Fajjari, M Rohon, C Auboin… - ICC 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G will provide a flexible and programmable infrastructure, allowing different networks to
share the same access network. A way to respond to the diverse service requirements of 5G …

Intelligent and autonomous management in cloud-native future networks—A survey on related standards from an architectural perspective

Q Duan - Future Internet, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cloud-native network design, which leverages network virtualization and softwarization
together with the service-oriented architectural principle, is transforming communication …

X-MAN: a non-intrusive power manager for energy-adaptive cloud-native network functions

Z Xiang, M Höweler, D You… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging microservices demand flexible low-latency processing of network functions in
virtualized environments, eg, as containerized network functions (CNFs). While ensuring …

Statistical assessment of IP multimedia subsystem in a softwarized environment: A queueing networks approach

M Di Mauro, A Liotta - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Next Generation 5G Networks can greatly benefit from the synergy between
virtualization paradigms, such as the Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and service …

A disaggregated packet processing architecture for network function virtualization

SR Chowdhury, H Bian, T Bai… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises to reduce the capital and operational
expenditure for network operators by moving packet processing from purpose-built …