Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm and it has attracted
considerable attention from both the industry and academia because of its potential to …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has been promising to improve the availability,
programmability, and flexibility of network function deployment and communication facilities …

With the emergence of virtualization technology, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and
Software Defined Networking (SDN) make the network function abstract from the hardware …

The source and path verification in Path-Aware Networking considers the two critical
issues:(1) end hosts could verify that the network follows their forwarding decisions, and (2) …

In the trend of network middleboxes as a service, enterprise customers adopt in-the-cloud
deep packet inspection (DPI) services to protect networks. As network misconfigurations and …

Network functions virtualization enables tenants to outsource their service function chains
(SFCs) to third-party clouds for better agility and cost-effectiveness. However, outsourcing …

With the advent of network function virtualization (NFV) and mobile edge computing (MEC),
outsourcing network functions (NFs, ie, firewall) to the MEC is becoming popular among …

There is a growing trend of hosting chains of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) on third-party
clouds for more cost-effective deployment. However, the multi-actor nature of such a …

5G networks attain a better performance along with a reduction in cost by cloudifying its
network functions as Cloud+ native Network Functions (CNFs). However, CNF may …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) implements virtual network functions (such as
firewall, IDS, etc.) as service chains over a cloud computing infrastructure to provide …