Service deployment often needs to guarantee QoS of service compositions for networks
which compose services to complete users' application requests. Because evaluation …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has become an emerging issue in both academia and
industry. By outsourcing network functions from dedicated hardware to virtualization …

Abstract Service composition is a useful technique to assemble light, independent services
to meet the complicated and dynamic requirements. Previous research has addressed the …

The successful application of pervasive services running in mobile wireless networks and
devices relies on its ability to provide efficient and cost-effective QoS (Quality of Service) …

Network Functions (NFs) are decoupled from dedicated hardware equipment and present a
better shareability of physical resources on basis of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) …

With the growing application of services on the basis of physical networks and Internet of
Things devices, service composition based on quality of service (QoS) has attracted wide …

In a service oriented cloud, in order to meet users' functional and non-functional
requirements, cloud vendors must manage service deployment effectively. During the …

Previous QoS-aware service composition methods mainly focus on how to generate
composite service with the optimal QoS efficiently for a single request. However, in the real …

In the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G), the deployment of service
function chaining (SFC) is a critical issue over network function virtualization scenario. A …

The service oriented paradigm promises dynamic service discovery and on-the-fly service
composition to fulfill user requirements. For the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of …