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 …

Dependability of the NFV orchestrator: State of the art and research challenges

AJ Gonzalez, G Nencioni, A Kamisiński… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of network function virtualisation (NFV) represents a significant change in
networking technology, which may create new opportunities in terms of cost efficiency …

Reducing latency in virtual machines: Enabling tactile Internet for human-machine co-working

Z **ang, F Gabriel, E Urbano… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) processed in
multi-access edge computing (MEC) cloud systems have been proposed as critical …

Survey of performance acceleration techniques for network function virtualization

L Linguaglossa, S Lange, S Pontarelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ongoing network softwarization trend holds the promise to revolutionize network
infrastructures by making them more flexible, reconfigurable, portable, and more adaptive …

Operating systems and hypervisors for network functions: A survey of enabling technologies and research studies

AS Thyagaturu, P Shantharama, A Nasrallah… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scalable and flexible communication networks increasingly conduct the packet processing
for Network Functions (NFs) in General Purpose Computing (GPC) platforms. The …

Paving the way for NFV acceleration: A taxonomy, survey and future directions

X Fei, F Liu, Q Zhang, H **, H Hu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
As a recent innovation, network functions virtualization (NFV)—with its core concept of
replacing hardware middleboxes with software network functions (NFs) implemented in …

Orchestration and Control in Software‐Defined 5G Networks: Research Challenges

G Nencioni, RG Garroppo, AJ Gonzalez… - Wireless …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks promises to be a major step in the evolution of
wireless technology. 5G is planned to be used in a very broad set of application scenarios …

A survey on accelerating technologies for fast network packet processing in Linux environments

E Freitas, AT de Oliveira Filho, PRX do Carmo… - Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
The path a packet takes when handled by the Linux Kernel has been well established for a
long time. Its overhead/bottleneck issues are also known. Nonetheless, complexity has …

5g network slicing enabling edge services

MA Kourtis, T Anagnostopoulos… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing already plays an important role as a critical enabler in the current 5G
technology domain. 5G aims to disrupt and accelerate innovation in various vertical fields …

MOSC: A method to assign the outsourcing of service function chain across multiple clouds

H Chen, X Wang, Y Zhao, T Song, Y Wang, S Xu, L Li - Computer Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract As Network Function Virtualization (NFV) becomes reality and cloud computing
offers a scalable pay-as-you-go charging model, more network operators would like to …