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 …

Vnf and cnf placement in 5g: Recent advances and future trends

W Attaoui, E Sabir, H Elbiaze… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for the most of mobile network operators …

Optimal VNF placement via deep reinforcement learning in SDN/NFV-enabled networks

J Pei, P Hong, M Pan, J Liu… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging paradigm-Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function
Virtualization (NFV)-makes it feasible and scalable to run Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) …

A comprehensive survey of service function chain provisioning approaches in SDN and NFV architecture

K Kaur, V Mangat, K Kumar - Computer Science Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged as an innovative network
architecture paradigm that uses IT virtualization technology to abstract the network node …

Efficiently embedding service function chains with dynamic virtual network function placement in geo-distributed cloud system

J Pei, P Hong, K Xue, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networks (SDN) enable
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to place Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to achieve the …

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 …

Optimal and fast real-time resource slicing with deep dueling neural networks

N Van Huynh, DT Hoang, DN Nguyen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective network slicing requires an infrastructure/network provider to deal with the
uncertain demands and real-time dynamics of the network resource requests. Another …

VNF placement and resource allocation for the support of vertical services in 5G networks

S Agarwal, F Malandrino… - … /ACM transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main goals of 5G networks is to support the technological and business needs of
various industries (the so-called verticals), which wish to offer to their customers a wide …

FH-ACO: Fuzzy heuristic-based ant colony optimization for joint virtual network function placement and routing

M Shokouhifar - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new networking paradigm, which replaces the
specific-purpose hardware appliances with software virtualization to perform network …

Joint optimization of service function chaining and resource allocation in network function virtualization

L Wang, Z Lu, X Wen, R Knopp, R Gupta - Ieee access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) has already been a new paradigm for network
architectures. By migrating NFs from dedicated hardware to virtualization platform, NFV can …