Toward enabled industrial verticals in 5G: A survey on MEC-based approaches to provisioning and flexibility

F Spinelli, V Mancuso - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing number of heterogeneous devices connected to the Internet, together with
tight 5G requirements have generated new challenges for designing network infrastructures …

Deep reinforcement learning for resource management on network slicing: A survey

JA Hurtado Sánchez, K Casilimas… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Network Slicing and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) are vital enablers for achieving
5G and 6G networks. A 5G/6G network can comprise various network slices from unique or …

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 …

Forecast-assisted service function chain dynamic deployment for SDN/NFV-enabled cloud management systems

J Zhang, Y Liu, Z Li, Y Lu - IEEE Systems Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are
acknowledged as the most promising technologies to effectively allocate resource for …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A dynamic planning model for deploying service functions chain in fog-cloud computing

Y Zhang, F Zhang, S Tong, A Rezaeipanah - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fog computing allows services to be deployed on computing resources at the edge of the
network to address the limitations of centralized cloud systems. However, the adoption of fog …

Digital twin-assisted, SFC-enabled service provisioning in mobile edge computing

J Li, S Guo, W Liang, Q Chen, Z Xu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has been identified as a desirable computing paradigm that
provides efficient and effective services for various applications, while meeting stringent …

Virtual network function placement in satellite edge computing with a potential game approach

X Gao, R Liu, A Kaushik - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite networks, as a supplement to terrestrial networks, can provide effective computing
services for Internet of Things (IoT) users in remote areas. Due to the resource limitation of …

Dependent function embedding for distributed serverless edge computing

S Deng, H Zhao, Z **ang, C Zhang… - … on Parallel and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing is booming as a promising paradigm to extend service provisioning from
the centralized cloud to the network edge. Benefit from the development of serverless …

Dynamic service function chain orchestration for NFV/MEC-enabled IoT networks: A deep reinforcement learning approach

Y Liu, H Lu, X Li, Y Zhang, L **… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) and mobile-edge computing (MEC) have been
introduced by Internet service providers (ISPs) to deal with various challenges, which hinder …