A comprehensive survey of service function chain provisioning approaches in SDN and NFV architecture

K Kaur, V Mangat, K Kumar - Computer Science Review, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged as an innovative network
architecture paradigm that uses IT virtualization technology to abstract the network node …

The communication complexity of correlation

P Harsha, R Jain, D McAllester… - … -Second Annual IEEE …, 2007‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We examine the communication required for generating random variables remotely. One
party Alice is given a distribution D, and she has to send a message to Bob, who is then …

On ensuring full yet cost-efficient survivability of service function chains in nfv environments

Z Alomari, MF Zhani, M Aloqaily, O Bouachir - Journal of Network and …, 2023‏ - Springer
Abstract The emergence of Network Function Virtualization enables the deployment of
network services in the form of service function chains. In this context, one of the key …

Post-fault restoration of service function chains in fog networks

N Siasi, MA Jasim, N Ghani - Computer Networks, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The network function virtualization (NFV) paradigm is rapidly being adopted by enterprises
and service providers as an alternative to proprietary hardware. It enables virtual network …

On improving service chains survivability through efficient backup provisioning

S Aidi, MF Zhani, Y Elkhatib - 2018 14th International …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function
Virtualization (NFV), large-scale NFV infrastructure deployments are gaining momentum …

Greedy Nominator Heuristic: Virtual function placement on fog resources

O Almurshed, O Rana, K Chard - … and Computation: Practice …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fog computing is an intermediate infrastructure between edge devices (eg, Internet of
Things) and cloud systems that is used to reduce latency in real‐time applications. An …

Performance of service function chaining on the OpenStack cloud platform

D Borsatti, G Davoli, W Cerroni… - … on Network and …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is considered as one of the most promising solutions to
deploy future end-to-end network services, taking advantage of emerging network …

Service traffic engineering: Avoiding link overloads in service chains

K Mebarkia, Z Zsóka - Journal of Communications and …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging technologies such as software defined networks (SDN) and network function
virtualization (NFV) enable flexibility in operation and a significant reduction of the costly …

Dynamic fault management in service function chaining

SY Song, FJ Lin - 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is an important mechanism in Software-Defined
Network/Network Function Virtualization (SDN/NFV) to allow the network traffic to be …

Pre-provisioning protection for faster failure recovery in service function chaining

P Thorat, NK Dubey - 2020 IEEE International Conference on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service function chaining (SFC) enables the traffic to be sequentially processed by the
service functions (SFs) based on its service requirement. Any failure on the service function …