As a recent innovation, network functions virtualization (NFV)—with its core concept of
replacing hardware middleboxes with software network functions (NFs) implemented in …

In this paper we present Metron, a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that
achieves high resource utilization by jointly exploiting the underlying network and …

This paper provides an overview of software-defined “hardware” infrastructures (SDHI).
SDHI builds upon the concept of hardware (HW) resource disaggregation. HW resource …

Abstract Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating the
implementation of an operations, administration, and management (OAM) protocol in a …

Middleboxes that process confidential data cannot be securely deployed in untrusted cloud
environments. To securely outsource middleboxes to the cloud, state-of-the-art systems …

(NRSF); receive a duplicate packet of the incoming packet; rewrite a service header of the
duplicate packet to identify a second SFC having a second SPI, wherein the second SPI is …

While the current literature typically focuses on load-balancing among multiple servers, in
this paper, we demonstrate the importance of load-balancing within a single machine …

In one embodiment, a method includes creating a catalog of service function (" SF”) profiles,
wherein each of the profiles is associated with an SF and indicates a type of the associ ated …

Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a service clas sifier configured for steering
cloned traffic through a service function chain. The service classifier is configured to create a …

A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include communicating
information between a plurality of network function virtualized (NFV) based applications; and …