Reliability evaluation for NFV deployment of future mobile broadband networks

J Liu, Z Jiang, N Kato, O Akashi… - IEEE Wireless …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of NFV appears to be a promising direction to save cellular network service
providers from endlessly increasing capital investment, given the fast evolving mobile …

Dependability evaluation and benchmarking of network function virtualization infrastructures

D Cotroneo, L De Simone, AK Iannillo… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging solution that aims at improving the
flexibility, the efficiency and the manageability of networks, by leveraging virtualization and …

Network-aware availability modeling of an end-to-end NFV-enabled service

B Tola, G Nencioni, BE Helvik - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represents a key shift in nowadays network service
provisioning by entailing higher flexibility, elasticity, and programmability of network …

On service resilience in cloud-native 5G mobile systems

T Taleb, A Ksentini, B Sericola - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To cope with the tremendous growth in mobile data traffic on one hand, and the modest
average revenue per user on the other hand, mobile operators have been exploring network …

Dependability of the NFV orchestrator: State of the art and research challenges

AJ Gonzalez, G Nencioni, A Kamisiński… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of network function virtualisation (NFV) represents a significant change in
networking technology, which may create new opportunities in terms of cost efficiency …

Enhancing the reliability of services in NFV with the cost-efficient redundancy scheme

W Ding, H Yu, S Luo - 2017 IEEE international conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) transforms the traditional service provision
architecture into a software-based structure. In NFV, Virtual Network Functions Forwarding …

Analysis of scaling policies for NFV providing 5G/6G reliability levels with fallible servers

J Ortin, P Serrano, J Garcia-Reinoso… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The softwarization of mobile networks enables an efficient use of resources, by dynamically
scaling and re-assigning them following variations in demand. Given that the activation of …

Reliability-aware virtual network function placement in carrier networks

L Fang, X Zhang, K Sood, Y Wang, S Yu - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that implements
Virtual Network Function (VNF) with software on general servers. Traffic needs to go through …

Optimising microservice-based reliable NFV management & orchestration architectures

T Soenen, W Tavernier, D Colle… - 2017 9th international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A highly reliable set up of Management and Orchestration (MANO) functionality is crucial for
telecom operators in order to support demanding NFV-powered telecom services such as …

Service availability in the NFV virtualized evolved packet core

A Gonzalez, P Gronsund, K Mahmood… - 2015 IEEE Global …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises to transform the way telecom providers
design and operate networks and network services. Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) …