A survey on the placement of virtual resources and virtual network functions

A Laghrissi, T Taleb - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud computing and network slicing are essential concepts of forthcoming 5G mobile
systems. Network slices are essentially chunks of virtual computing and connectivity …

Recent advances of resource allocation in network function virtualization

S Yang, F Li, S Trajanovski… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

A deep reinforcement learning approach for VNF forwarding graph embedding

PTA Quang, Y Hadjadj-Aoul… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and service orchestration simplify the deployment and
management of network and telecommunication services. The deployment of these services …

Multi-connectivity for 5G networks and beyond: A survey

T Sylla, L Mendiboure, S Maaloul, H Aniss, MA Chalouf… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
To manage a growing number of users and an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth,
future 5th Generation (5G) cellular networks will combine different radio access technologies …

Virtual network functions routing and placement for edge cloud latency minimization

R Gouareb, V Friderikos… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a new way to design, deploy, and manage network services, network functions
virtualization (NFV) decouples the network functions, from one or more physical network …

A survey on the placement of virtual network functions

J Sun, Y Zhang, F Liu, H Wang, X Xu, Y Li - Journal of Network and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dependence of traditional network functions (NFs) on special hardware results in high
capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX). Network Function …

VNF placement optimization at the edge and cloud

A Leivadeas, G Kesidis, M Ibnkahla, I Lambadaris - Future Internet, 2019 - mdpi.com
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has revolutionized the way network services are
offered to end users. Individual network functions are decoupled from expensive and …

NFV resource allocation: A systematic review and taxonomy of VNF forwarding graph embedding

F Schardong, I Nunes, A Schaeffer-Filho - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The emergence of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) is drastically resha**
the arrangement of network functions. Instead of being built on dedicated hardware (network …

z-TORCH: An automated NFV orchestration and monitoring solution

V Sciancalepore, FZ Yousaf… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous management and orchestration (MANO) of virtualized resources and services,
especially in large-scale network function virtualization (NFV) environments, is a big …

Guaranteed-availability network function virtualization with network protection and VNF replication

J Kong, I Kim, X Wang, Q Zhang… - … 2017-2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) provides an efficient and flexible way to deploy network
services in the form of service function chains (SFCs) by adopting generalized equipment …