A survey on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in SDN and cloud computing environments

S Dong, K Abbas, R Jain - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, software defined networks (SDNs) and cloud computing have been widely
adopted by researchers and industry. However, widespread acceptance of these novel …

A survey on service function chaining

D Bhamare, R Jain, M Samaka, A Erbad - Journal of Network and …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Optimal virtual network function placement in multi-cloud service function chaining architecture

D Bhamare, M Samaka, A Erbad, R Jain… - Computer …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Service Function Chaining (SFC) is the problem of deploying various network
service instances over geographically distributed data centers and providing inter …

Delay-aware scheduling and resource optimization with network function virtualization

L Qu, C Assi, K Shaban - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To accelerate the implementation of network functions/middle boxes and reduce the
deployment cost, recently, the concept of network function virtualization (NFV) has emerged …

Delay-aware virtual network function placement and routing in edge clouds

S Yang, F Li, S Trajanovski, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers a way to shorten the cloud servicing delay by building
the small-scale cloud infrastructures at the network edge, which are in close proximity to the …

Leveraging deep reinforcement learning with attention mechanism for virtual network function placement and routing

N He, S Yang, F Li, S Trajanovski, L Zhu… - … on Parallel and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The efficacy of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) depends critically on (1) where the
virtual network functions (VNFs) are placed and (2) how the traffic is routed. Unfortunately …

Optimal network function virtualization and service function chaining: A survey

G Mirjalily, Z Luo - Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Network function virtualization (NFV) and Service function chaining (SFC) can fulfill the
traditional network functions by simply running special softwares on general‐purpose …

Feasibility of supervised machine learning for cloud security

D Bhamare, T Salman, M Samaka… - … Science and Security …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud computing is gaining significant attention, however, security is the biggest hurdle in its
wide acceptance. Users of cloud services are under constant fear of data loss, security …

Service function chaining resource allocation: A survey

Y **e, Z Liu, S Wang, Y Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:1608.00095, 2016 - arxiv.org
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a crucial technology for future Internet. It aims to
overcome the limitation of current deployment models which is rigid and static. Application of …

On service-chaining strategies using virtual network functions in operator networks

A Gupta, MF Habib, U Mandal, P Chowdhury… - Computer Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
Network functions (eg, firewalls, load balancers, etc.) have been traditionally provided
through proprietary hardware appliances. Often, hardware appliances need to be hardwired …