Enabling NFV elasticity control with optimized flow migration

C Sun, J Bi, Z Meng, T Yang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) together with software defined networking (SDN) offers
the potential for enhancing service delivery flexibility and reducing overall costs. Based on …

Grus: Enabling latency SLOs for GPU-accelerated NFV systems

Z Zheng, J Bi, H Wang, C Sun, H Yu… - 2018 IEEE 26th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has been recently exploited as a hardware accelerator to
improve the performance of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). However, GPU …

Escala: Timely elastic scaling of control channels in network measurement

H Liu, X Chen, Q Huang, D Kong, J Sun… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In network measurement, data plane switches measure traffic and report events (eg, heavy
hitters) to the control plane via control channels. The control plane makes decisions to …

Elastically Scaling Control Channels in Network Measurement With

H Liu, X Chen, Q Huang, D Kong… - IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In network measurement, data plane switches measure traffic and report events (eg, heavy
hitters) to the control plane via control channels. The control plane makes decisions to …

Towards chain-aware scaling detection in nfv with reinforcement learning

L He, L Li, Y Liu - … IEEE/ACM 29th International Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elastic scaling enables dynamic and efficient re-source provisioning in Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) to serve fluctuating network traffic. Scaling detection determines the …

Fastscale: Fast scaling out of network functions

X Chen, Y Chen, Q Huang, H Zhou… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scaling out network functions (NFs) offers great flexibility and elasticity to the management
of service function chains (SFCs). However, existing solutions overlook the fact that scaling …

Optimization of Migration Cost for Network Function Virtualization Replacement

F Shoura, A Gharaibeh… - 2020 21st International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's networks are concerned about making the control of communication flexible and
improving the existing management systems in such a manner that reduces the Capital …

PSMA: Layered Deployment Scheme for Secure VNF Multiplexing Based on Primary and Secondary Multiplexing Architecture

X Feng, Z Jiang, W You, J Yang, X Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The adoption of SDN/NFV opens avenues for efficient network slicing deployment and cost
control. However, the dynamic cost reduction brought by deployment location optimization is …

[HTML][HTML] AdaptNF: Adaptive service chain scheduling with stateless migration and NF consolidation

Q Li, H Huang, Y Jiang, J Duan - Digital Communications and Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
The combination of network function virtualization and software-defined networking allows
various network functions to process flows according to their characteristics and …

[PDF][PDF] Biochemically-inspired, adaptive, and autonomous VNF control for service function chaining

M Matsuoka, R Kurokawa - 2019 - www-mura.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
Abstract In Network Function Virtualization (NFV), various Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
are deployed on general-purpose servers. A flow receiving NFV service may have a Service …