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 functions virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture framework where
network function that traditionally used dedicated hardware (middleboxes or network …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

Currently, advanced communications and networks greatly enhance user experiences and
have a major impact on all aspects of people's lifestyles in terms of work, society, and the …

Cloud computing and network slicing are essential concepts of forthcoming 5G mobile
systems. Network slices are essentially chunks of virtual computing and connectivity …

Network function virtualization foresees the virtualization of service functions and their
execution on virtual machines. Any service is represented by a service function chain (SFC) …

With the evolution of network function virtualization (NFV), diverse network services can be
flexibly offered as service function chains (SFCs) consisted of different virtual network …

The highly demanding Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia applications pose increased
challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for assuring a reasonable Quality of …

Recently, network function virtualization has been proposed to transform from network
hardware appliances to software middleboxes. Normally, a demand needs to invoke several …

Cloud computing is gaining significant attention and virtualized datacenters are becoming
popular as a cost-effective infrastructure. The network services are transitioning from a host …