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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising virtualization technology that has the potential to significantly reduce the expenses and improve the service agility. NFV makes it possible for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Yicheng Xu , Vincent Chau , Chenchen Wu , Yong Zhang , Yifei Zou

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables the "softwarization" of network functions, which are implemented on virtual machines hosted on Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. Both the composition of the virtual network functions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

Network Functions Virtualization, or NFV, enables telecommunications infrastructure providers to replace special-purpose networking equipment with commodity servers running virtualized network functions (VNFs). A service provider utilizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Freddy C. Chua , Julie Ward , Ying Zhang , Puneet Sharma , Bernardo A. Huberman

Network function virtualization (NFV) fosters innovation in the networking field and reduces the complexity involved in managing modern-day conventional networks. Via NFV, the provisioning of a network service becomes more agile, whereby…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Omar Alhussein , Weihua Zhuang

FPGA accelerators are gaining increasing attention in both cloud and edge computing because of their hardware flexibility, high computational throughput, and low power consumption. However, the design flow of FPGAs often requires specific…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Masudul Hassan Quraishi , Erfan Bank Tavakoli , Fengbo Ren

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a new concept that has received the attention of both researchers and network providers. NFV decouples network functions from specialized hardware devices and virtualizes these network functions as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Samane Asgari , Shahram Jamali , Reza Fotohi , Mahdi Nooshyar

Virtual Network Functions as a Service (VNFaaS) is currently under attentive study by telecommunications and cloud stakeholders as a promising business and technical direction consisting of providing network functions as a service on a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Marco Casazza , Pierre Fouilhoux , Mathieu Bouet , Stefano Secci

Modern field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can produce high performance in a wide range of applications, and their computational capacity is becoming abundant in personal computers. Regardless of this fact, FPGA virtualization is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Duc-Canh Le , Chan-Hyun Youn

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) allows implantation of network functions to be independent of dedicated hardware devices. Any series of services can be represented by a service function chain which contains a set of virtualized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Weihan Chen , Xia Yin , Zhiliang Wang , Xingang Shi

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) takes advantage of hardware virtualization to undertake software processing for various functions, and complements the drawbacks of traditional network technology. To speed up NFV related research, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Wutong Yang , Minxian Xu , Guozhong Li , Wenhong Tian

The concept of a softwarized network leveraging technologies such as SDN and NFV comes with different merits such as decreased Operational Expenses (OPEX) and less dependency on underlying hardware components. With the amount of increased…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Idris Badmus , Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi , Marja Matinmikko-Blue , Ari Pouttu

Reconfigurable computing refers to the use of processors, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), that can be modified at the hardware level to take on different processing tasks. A reconfigurable computing platform describes the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Darran Nathan , Kelvin Lim Mun Kit , Kelly Choo Hon Min , Philip Wong Jit Chin , Andreas Weisensee

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has recently received significant attention as an innovative way of deploying network services. By decoupling network functions from the physical equipment on which they run, NFV has been proposed as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Rashid Mijumbi

This paper proposes a framework for integrating data plane (DP) acceleration within the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) architecture. Data plane programming (DPP) proves to be beneficial for NFV environments, as it provides full…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-22 David Franco , Asier Atutxa , Jorge Sasiain , Eder Ollora , Marivi Higuero , Jasone Astorga , Eduardo Jacob

Recently, FPGA accelerators have risen in popularity as they present a suitable way of satisfying the high-computation and low-power demands of real time applications. The modern electric transportation systems (such as aircraft, road…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Anna Panagopoulou , Michele Paolino , Daniel Raho

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a crucial technology for the 5G network development because it can improve the flexibility of employing hardware and reduce the construction of base stations. There are vast service chains in NFV to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Wenlu Xuan , Zhongqi Zhao , Lei Fan , Zhu Han

6G, the next generation of mobile networks, is set to offer even higher data rates, ultra-reliability, and lower latency than 5G. New 6G services will increase the load and dynamism of the network. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aids…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Swarna Bindu Chetty , Avishek Nag , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Qiao Wang , Berk Canberk , Johann Marquez-Barja , Hamed Ahmadi

In this paper, network function virtualization (NFV) is identified as a promising key technology that can contribute to energy-efficiency improvement in 5G networks. an optical network supported architecture is proposed and investigated in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Ahmed N. Al-Quzweeni , Ahmed Q. Lawey , Taisir E. H. Elgorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Network function virtualization (NFV) enhances service flexibility by decoupling network functions from dedicated hardware. To handle time-varying traffic in NFV network, virtualized network function (VNF) migration has been involved to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Fangyu Zhang , Yuang Chen , Hancheng Lu , Chengdi Lu

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a new paradigm, enabling service innovation through virtualization of traditional network functions located flexibly in the network in form of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Since VNFs can only be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Francisco Carpio , Samia Dhahri , Admela Jukan