Survey on placement methods in the edge and beyond

B Sonkoly, J Czentye, M Szalay… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing is a (r) evolutionary extension of traditional cloud computing. It expands
central cloud infrastructure with execution environments close to the users in terms of …

Vnf and cnf placement in 5g: Recent advances and future trends

W Attaoui, E Sabir, H Elbiaze… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for the most of mobile network operators …

Network slice reconfiguration by exploiting deep reinforcement learning with large action space

F Wei, G Feng, Y Sun, Y Wang, S Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is widely acknowledged that network slicing can tackle the diverse usage scenarios and
connectivity services that the 5G-and-beyond system needs to support. To guarantee …

Online adaptive interference-aware VNF deployment and migration for 5G network slice

Q Zhang, F Liu, C Zeng - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined network (SDN), network
slicing is proposed as a new paradigm for building service-customized 5G network. In each …

Reducing latency in virtual machines: Enabling tactile Internet for human-machine co-working

Z **ang, F Gabriel, E Urbano… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) processed in
multi-access edge computing (MEC) cloud systems have been proposed as critical …

Joint dynamical VNF placement and SFC routing in NFV-enabled SDNs

L Liu, S Guo, G Liu, Y Yang - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to that Service Function Chain (SFC) permits the forwarding of flows along a
predetermined sequence chain of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), it has become a …

A survey on the placement of virtual network functions

J Sun, Y Zhang, F Liu, H Wang, X Xu, Y Li - Journal of Network and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dependence of traditional network functions (NFs) on special hardware results in high
capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX). Network Function …

Green cloud multimedia networking: NFV/SDN based energy-efficient resource allocation

A Montazerolghaem, MH Yaghmaee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of communications and multimedia network services such as Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) have caused these networks to face a crisis in resources from two …

Virtualized network function forwarding graph placing in SDN and NFV-enabled IoT networks: A graph neural network assisted deep reinforcement learning method

Y **e, L Huang, Y Kong, S Wang, S Xu… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With an ambitious increase in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) terminals, IoT networks
face a huge challenge which is providing diverse and complex network services with …

Dynamic VNF placement, resource allocation and traffic routing in 5G

M Golkarifard, CF Chiasserini, F Malandrino… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 5G networks are going to support a variety of vertical services, with a diverse set of
key performance indicators (KPIs), by using enabling technologies such as software-defined …