Multi-access Edge Computing fundamentals, services, enablers and challenges: A complete survey

B Liang, MA Gregory, S Li - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Traffic over mobile cellular networks has significantly increased over the past decade, and
with the introduction of 5G there is a growing focus on throughput capacity, reliability, and …

Forecast-assisted service function chain dynamic deployment for SDN/NFV-enabled cloud management systems

J Zhang, Y Liu, Z Li, Y Lu - IEEE Systems Journal, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are
acknowledged as the most promising technologies to effectively allocate resource for …

Game theoretic approach for a service function chain routing in NFV with coupled constraints

S Le, Y Wu, Y Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, the service function chain (SFC) routing in network function virtualization (NFV)
with server capacity limitation and user minimum target rate constraint is investigated …

SAP: Subchain-aware NFV service placement in mobile edge cloud

TV Doan, GT Nguyen, M Reisslein… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) service placements that reuse already
deployed network functions either reuse an entire Service Function Chain (SFC) or only …

Service function chain embedding meets machine learning: Deep reinforcement learning approach

Y Liu, J Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the emerge of the network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined network
(SDN), the SDN/NFV-enabled network has been recognized as one of the most promising …

EMCFIS: Evolutionary Multi-criteria Fuzzy Inference System for virtual network function placement and routing

SR Zahedi, S Jamali, P Bayat - Applied Soft Computing, 2022‏ - Elsevier
With the increasing demands for low-delay network services, mobile edge computing (MEC)
has emerged as an appealing solution to provide computing resources in close to the end …

Change: Delay-aware service function chain orchestration at the edge

L Wang, M Dolati, M Ghaderi - 2021 IEEE 5th International …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), the network's edge is equipped with computing and
storage resources in order to reduce latency by minimizing communication with remote …

Distributed multi-agent learning for service function chain partial offloading at the edge

F Khoramnejad, R Joda… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) along with" learning at the edge" brings unique
opportunities for enhancing the utilization of resources in the next generation wireless …

A novel approach for service function chain embedding in cloud datacenter networks

W Qiao, Y Liu, Y Lu, X Li, J Yan… - IEEE Communications …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN) have recently
introduced together, which show great potential in openness, innovation, flexibility and …

Securing Dynamic Service Function Chain Orchestration in EC-IoT Using Federated Learning

S Wang, L Yang - Sensors, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Dynamic service orchestration is becoming more and more necessary as IoT and edge
computing technologies continue to advance due to the flexibility and diversity of services …