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 …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) brings the benefits of cloud computing, such as computation,
networking, and storage resources, close to end users, thus reducing end-to-end latency …

In-network computing provides significant performance benefits, load reduction, and power
savings. Still, an in-network service's functionality is strictly limited to a single hardware …

Due to the intrinsically inefficient service provisioning in traditional networks, Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) keeps gaining attention from both industry and academia. By …

Enabling functionality in a modern network is achieved through the use of middleboxes.
Middleboxes suffer from temporal unavailability due to various reasons, such as hardware …

Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables flexible deployment of network
services as applications. However, it is a big challenge to guarantee the Quality of Service …

Network function virtualization (NFV) together with software defined networking (SDN) offers
the potential for enhancing service delivery flexibility and reducing overall costs. Based on …

Anomaly diagnosis is a critical task for building a reliable cloud system and speeding up the
system recovery form failures. With the increase of scales and applications of clouds, they …

We investigate competitive online algorithms for online convex optimization (OCO) problems
with linear in-stage costs, switching costs and ramp constraints. While OCO problems have …

The modularization of service function chains (SFCs) in network function virtualization (NFV)
could introduce significant performance overhead and resource efficiency degradation due …