Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

Abstract The emergence of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) is drastically resha**
the arrangement of network functions. Instead of being built on dedicated hardware (network …

Recently, MEC has been integrated with satellite networks to process remote terrestrial
computation tasks with superior coverage and delay. Since single satellite computation is …

The main task of future networks is to build, as much as possible, intelligent networking
architectures for intellectualization, activation, and customization. Software-defined …

Cooperative offloading in mobile edge computing enables resource-constrained edge
clouds to help each other with computation-intensive tasks. However, the power of such …

With the evolution of Network Function Virtual-izaiton (NFV), enterprises are increasingly
outsourcing their network functions to the cloud. However, using virtualized network …

Emerging virtual network functions (VNFs) bring new opportunities to network services on
the edge within customers' premises. Network services are realized by chained up VNFs …

Hosting virtualized network functions (VNF) has been regarded as an effective way to realize
network function virtualization (NFV). Considering the cost diversity in cloud computing, from …

Network function virtualization (NFV) is critical to the scalability and flexibility of various
network services in the form of service function chains (SFCs), which refer to a set of Virtual …

Traffic in operator networks is time varying. Conventional network functions implemented by
black-boxes should satisfy the peak traffic requirement, and hence result in low resource …