Service function chain placement in distributed scenarios: a systematic review

GL Santos, DF Bezerra, ES Rocha, L Ferreira… - Journal of Network and …, 2022 - Springer
The network function virtualization (NFV) paradigm is an emerging technology that provides
network flexibility by allowing the allocation of network functions over commodity hardware …

Efficient placement of service function chains in cloud computing environments

MA Abdelaal, GA Ebrahim, WR Anis - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The widespread adoption of network function virtualization (NFV) leads to providing network
services through a chain of virtual network functions (VNFs). This architecture is called …

Optimal network function virtualization and service function chaining: A survey

G Mirjalily, Z Luo - Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Network function virtualization (NFV) and Service function chaining (SFC) can fulfill the
traditional network functions by simply running special softwares on general‐purpose …

Optimized service chain placement using genetic algorithm

MA Khoshkholghi, J Taheri… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology to consolidate network
functions onto high volume storages, servers and switches located anywhere in the network …

Towards an efficient VNF placement in network function virtualization

D Qi, S Shen, G Wang - Computer Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) decouples network function (also called
middlebox function) software from specified appliances onto general shared servers. Thus, it …

Availability-aware mapping of service function chains

J Fan, C Guan, Y Zhao, C Qiao - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technique to greatly improve the
effectiveness and flexibility of network services through a process named Service Function …

Coordinated allocation of service function chains

MT Beck, JF Botero - 2015 IEEE global communications …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging initiative to overcome increasing
operational and capital costs faced by network operators due to the need to physically locate …

Replication of virtual network functions: Optimizing link utilization and resource costs

F Carpio, W Bziuk, A Jukan - 2017 40th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is enabling the softwarization of traditional network
services, commonly deployed in dedicated hardware, into generic hardware in form of …

CoDeC: A cost-effective and delay-aware SFC deployment

F Tashtarian, MF Zhani, B Fatemipour… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chain (SFC) provides an end-to-end service by processing traffic flow
through a series of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in a specific order. Satisfying user's …

Service function chain placement for joint cost and latency optimization

MA Khoshkholghi, M Gokan Khan… - Mobile Networks and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology to consolidate
network functions onto high volume storages, servers and switches located anywhere in the …