A comprehensive survey of network function virtualization

B Yi, X Wang, K Li, M Huang - Computer Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Network function virtualization: State-of-the-art and research challenges

R Mijumbi, J Serrat, JL Gorricho… - … surveys & tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

[HTML][HTML] From 5G to 6G technology: meets energy, internet-of-things and machine learning: a survey

MN Mahdi, AR Ahmad, QS Qassim, H Natiq… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Due to the rapid development of the fifth-generation (5G) applications, and increased
demand for even faster communication networks, we expected to witness the birth of a new …

Design and evaluation of algorithms for map** and scheduling of virtual network functions

R Mijumbi, J Serrat, JL Gorricho… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization has received attention from both academia and industry as an
important shift in the deployment of telecommunication networks and services. It is being …

Greening emerging IT technologies: techniques and practices

J Shuja, RW Ahmad, A Gani, AI Abdalla Ahmed… - Journal of Internet …, 2017 - Springer
The tremendous increase in global industrial activity has resulted in high utilization of
natural energy resources and increase in global warming over the last few decades …

Cloud-based wireless network: Virtualized, reconfigurable, smart wireless network to enable 5G technologies

M Chen, Y Zhang, L Hu, T Taleb, Z Sheng - Mobile Networks and …, 2015 - Springer
In recent years, information communication and computation technologies are deeply
converging, and various wireless access technologies have been successful in deployment …

Energy-aware service function chaining embedding in NFV networks

R Lin, L He, S Luo, M Zukerman - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new networking paradigm based on decoupling
network functions from dedicated hardware, so these network functions can be run as pieces …

Quality of service provisioning in network function virtualization: a survey

S Mostafavi, V Hakami, M Sanaei - Computing, 2021 - Springer
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm for network service
provisioning which decouples the network functions from the physical infrastructure …

Network functions virtualization: The long road to commercial deployments

AU Rehman, RL Aguiar, JP Barraca - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network operators are under pressure to offer efficient network-based services while
kee** service deployment costs to a minimum. Network functions virtualization (NFV) can …

Joint failure recovery, fault prevention, and energy-efficient resource management for real-time SFC in fog-supported SDN

MM Tajiki, M Shojafar, B Akbari, S Salsano, M Conti… - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Middleboxes have become a vital part of modern networks by providing services such as
load balancing, optimization of network traffic, and content filtering. A sequence of …