A comprehensive survey of network function virtualization

B Yi, X Wang, K Li, M Huang - Computer Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Resource allocation in NFV: A comprehensive survey

JG Herrera, JF Botero - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture framework where
network function that traditionally used dedicated hardware (middleboxes or network …

Deploying chains of virtual network functions: On the relation between link and server usage

TW Kuo, BH Liou, KCJ Lin… - IEEE/ACM Transactions On …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, network function virtualization has been proposed to transform from network
hardware appliances to software middleboxes. Normally, a demand needs to invoke several …

Topology-aware prediction of virtual network function resource requirements

R Mijumbi, S Hasija, S Davy, A Davy… - … on Network and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network functions virtualization (NFV) continues to gain attention as a paradigm shift in the
way telecommunications services are deployed and managed. By separating network …

Research challenges in nextgen service orchestration

LM Vaquero, F Cuadrado, Y Elkhatib… - Future Generation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fog/edge computing, function as a service, and programmable infrastructures, like software-
defined networking or network function virtualisation, are becoming ubiquitously used in …

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 …

Quality of service provisioning in network function virtualization: a survey

S Mostafavi, V Hakami, M Sanaei - Computing, 2021 - Springer
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising paradigm for network service
provisioning which decouples the network functions from the physical infrastructure …

A connectionist approach to dynamic resource management for virtualised network functions

R Mijumbi, S Hasija, S Davy, A Davy… - … on network and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) continues to gain attention as a paradigm shift in the
way telecommunications services are deployed and managed. By separating Network …

DRL-based energy-efficient baseband function deployments for service-oriented open RAN

H Li, A Emami, KDR Assis, A Vafeas… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) has gained tremendous attention from industry
and academia with decentralized baseband functions across multiple processing units …

Knowledge defined networks on the edge for service function chaining and reactive traffic steering

A Rafiq, S Rehman, R Young, WC Song, MA Khan… - Cluster …, 2023 - Springer
Emerging technologies such as network function virtualization and software-defined
networking (SDN) have made a phenomenal breakthrough in network management by …