On the theory of function placement and chaining for network function virtualization

J Zhang, W Wu, JCS Lui - … ACM international symposium on mobile ad …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) can significantly reduce the operation cost and speed
up the deployment for network services to markets. Under NFV, a network service is …

Towards qos-aware provisioning of chained virtual security services in edge networks

MM Iordache-Sica, C Anagnostopoulos… - 2021 IFIP/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future networks are expected to deliver low-latency, user-specific services in a flexible and
efficient manner. Operators have to ensure infrastructure resilience in the face of such …

On the placement of security-related Virtualised Network Functions over data center networks

AFT Ali - 2020 - theses.gla.ac.uk
Middleboxes are typically hardware-accelerated appliances such as firewalls, proxies, WAN
optimizers, and NATs that play an important role in service provisioning over today's data …