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Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a promising network architecture where network functions are virtualized and decoupled from proprietary hardware. In modern datacenters, user network traffic requires a set of Virtual Network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Farzad Tashtarian , Amir Varasteh , Ahmadreza Montazerolghaem , Wolfgang Kellerer

The last decade has witnessed the proliferation of network function virtualization (NFV) in the telco industry, thanks to its unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. However, as the NFV infrastructure is shared by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Qiong Liu , Jianke Lin , Tianzhu Zhang , Leonardo Linguaglossa

Network softwarization is one of the major paradigm shifts in the next generation of networks. It enables programmable and flexible management and deployment of the network. Network function virtualization (NFV) is referred to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan , Vahid Shah-Mansouri , Dusit Niyato

The paper investigates a version of the resource allocation problem arising in the wireless networking, namely in the OVSF code reallocation process. In this setting a complete binary tree of a given height $n$ is considered, together with…

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a vital player of modern networks providing different types of services such as traffic optimization, content filtering, and load balancing. More precisely, NFV is a provisioning technology aims at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Abolfazl Ghazizadeh , Behzad Akbari , Mohammad Mahdi Tajiki

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

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Tianzhu Zhang

Operators of reconfigurable wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) optical networks adapt the lightpath topology to balance load and reduce transmission delays. Such an adaption generally depends on a known or estimated traffic matrix.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Valentin Kirchner , Holger Karl

Management of network resources in advanced IoT applications is a challenging topic due to their distributed nature from the Edge to the Cloud, and the heavy demand of real-time data from many sources to take action in the deployment.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Juan José López Escobar , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos , Felipe Gil-Castiñeira , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo

We propose a self-organization scheme for cost-effective and load-balanced routing in multi-hop networks. To avoid overloading nodes that provide favourable routing conditions, we assign each node with a cost function that penalizes high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-18 Mihai-Alin Badiu , David Saad , Justin P. Coon

With the mass deployment of computing-intensive applications and delay-sensitive applications on end devices, only adequate computing resources can meet differentiated services' delay requirements. By offloading tasks to cloud servers or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Zhuo Li , Xu Zhou , Taixin Li , Yang Liu

Allocating resources to virtualized network functions and services to meet service level agreements is a challenging task for NFV management and orchestration systems. This becomes even more challenging when agile development methodologies,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Manuel Peuster , Holger Karl

Nowadays, the new network architectures with respect to the traditional network topologies must manage more data, which entails having increasingly robust and scalable network structures. As there is a process of growth, adaptability, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Antonio Cortés Castillo

We consider the online resource minimization problem in which jobs with hard deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible schedule on a minimum number of machines. We rigorously study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

Cloud computing has grown rapidly in recent years, mainly due to the sharp increase in data transferred over the internet. This growth makes load balancing a key part of cloud systems, as it helps distribute user requests across servers to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Shadman Sakib , Ajay Katangur , Rahul Dubey

The rise of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has transformed network infrastructures by replacing fixed hardware with software-based Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs), enabling greater agility, scalability, and cost efficiency.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Mario Di Mauro , Walter Cerroni , Fabio Postiglione , Massimo Tornatore , Kishor S. Trivedi

Power systems are increasingly operated in corrective rather than preventive security mode, which means that appropriate control actions must be taken immediately after a contingency has occurred. This paper proposes an online algorithm for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Nicolo Mazzi , Baosen Zhang , Daniel S. Kirschen

Network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN) are two promising technologies to enable 5G and 6G services and achieve cost reduction, network scalability, and deployment flexibility. However, migration to full…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Reza Moosavi , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Vahid Shah-Mansouri , Babak Hossein Khalaj , Mehdi Bennis

Modern communication networks are increasingly equipped with in-network computational capabilities and services. Routing in such networks is significantly more complicated than the traditional routing. A legitimate route for a flow not only…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Lifan Mei , Jinrui Gou , Jingrui Yang , Yujin Cai , Yong Liu

5G networks are going to support a variety of vertical services, with a diverse set of key performance indicators (KPIs), by using enabling technologies such as software-defined networking and network function virtualization. It is the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Morteza Golkarifard , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Francesco Malandrino , Ali Movaghar

Hierarchical edge-cloud computing-aided Internet of Things (IoT) networks offer low-latency and cost-efficient services to a growing number of data-intensive IoT devices. However, optimizing service placement, which involves determining the…