Recently, network function virtualization has been proposed to transform from network
hardware appliances to software middleboxes. Normally, a demand needs to invoke several …

To accelerate the implementation of network functions/middle boxes and reduce the
deployment cost, recently, the concept of network function virtualization (NFV) has emerged …

With the popularization and development of cloud computing, network function virtualization
and service function chain (SFC) provisioning have attracted increasing attention from …

Network function virtualization (NFV) and Service function chaining (SFC) can fulfill the
traditional network functions by simply running special softwares on general‐purpose …

Elephant flows (elephants) refer to the sequences of packets that contribute only 10% of the
total volume but consume over 90% of the network bandwidth. They often cause network …

Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a crucial technology for future Internet. It aims to
overcome the limitation of current deployment models which is rigid and static. Application of …

Multi-resource allocation in data centers determines a network and service management
task of crucial importance. While, traditionally computing systems are shared based on a …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) provides computing/storage offloading and resource
virtualization to mobile devices at the network edge. A load balancer is a necessary network …

With software-defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) techniques,
we can embed the service chain consisting of a sequence of virtualized network functions …

Middleboxes are widely deployed to perform various network functions to ensure security
and improve performance. The recent trend of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) makes …