Virtual Network Embedding: Literature Assessment, Recent Advancements, Opportunities, and Challenges

A Satpathy, MN Sahoo, C Swain… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network virtualization (NV) allows service providers (SPs) to instantiate logically isolated
entities called virtual networks (VNs) on top of a substrate network (SN). Though VNs bring …

Node essentiality assessment and distributed collaborative virtual network embedding in datacenters

W Fan, F **ao, M Lv, L Han, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network virtualization (NV) has extensive and significant applications in cloud computing
and parallel and distributed systems. Virtual network embedding (VNE) is a key issue in NV …

Disjoint paths construction and fault-tolerant routing in BCube of data center networks

W Fan, F **ao, H Cai, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
BCube is a promising structure of data center network, as it can significantly improve the
performance of typical applications. With the expansion of network scale and increasement …

Dynamic virtual network embedding of mobile cloud system based on global resources in internet of vehicles

W Fan, P Li, Z Han, J Fan, J He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has a typical Internet of things architecture, which is the
specific application of Internet of things (IoT) technology in the field of intelligent …

Multidimensional resource fragmentation-aware virtual network embedding for IoT applications in MEC networks

Y Guan, Q Song, W Qi, L Guo, K Li… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications has led to the interconnection of
multiaccess edge computing (MEC) systems through metro optical networks. To cater to …

Virtualization and energy management optimization of high speed computer network data centers based on optical switching and network technology

D Li - Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2024 - Elsevier
With the development of cloud computing and big data technology, the scale and complexity
of data centers are increasing, and the thermal energy consumption management of …

Joint admission control and resource allocation of virtual network embedding via hierarchical deep reinforcement learning

T Wang, L Shen, Q Fan, T Xu, T Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an essential resource management problem in network virtualization, virtual network
embedding (VNE) aims to allocate the finite resources of physical network to sequentially …

HA-D3QN: Embedding virtual private cloud in cloud data centers with heuristic assisted deep reinforcement learning

M Chen, J Hou, Y Sheng, Y Wu, S Wang, J Lu… - Future Generation …, 2023 - Elsevier
The virtual network embedding problem is embedding virtual networks (VNs) in a substrate
network so that revenue or accept ratio is maximized. Previous study usually assumes …

Virtual network embedding over multi-band elastic optical network based on cross-matching mechanism and hypergraph theory

Z Yang, R Gu, Y Ji - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The commercialization of 5G and the explosive emergence of new applications stimulate the
exponential growth of network traffic and diversification of services. It is promising to …

Resource fragmentation-aware embedding in dynamic network virtualization environments

H Lu, F Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In network virtualization environments, with random arrival and departure of virtual network
requests, there exist some resources (ie, link resources and node resources) isolated from …