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Service function chaining (SFC) is promising to implement flexible and scalable virtual network infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT). Edge computing is envisioned to be an effective solution to process huge amount of IoT…

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The explosive growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has strained traditional cloud infrastructures, highlighting the need for low-latency and energy-efficient alternatives. Fog computing addresses this by placing computation near the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Negin Doostar , Mohammad Reza Heidarpour , Amir Khorsandi

With the sharp growth of cloud services and their possible combinations, the scale of data center network traffic has an inevitable explosive increasing in recent years. Software defined network (SDN) provides a scalable and flexible…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-13 He Li , Song Guo , Chentao Wu , Jie Li

Modern information technology services largely depend on cloud infrastructures to provide their services. These cloud infrastructures are built on top of datacenter networks (DCNs) constructed with high-speed links, fast switching gear, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ting-Yu Mu , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Khaled Shuaib , Farag M. Sallabi , Junaid Qadir

Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a networking technique that ensures traffic traverses a predefined sequence of service functions, realizing arbitrary network services through dynamic and efficient communication paths. Inspired by this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Takanori Hara , Masahiro Sasabe

Network function virtualization is a promising technology to simultaneously support multiple services with diverse characteristics and requirements in the fifth generation and beyond networks. In practice, each service consists of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Antonio De Domenico , Zhi-Quan Luo

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that promises to significantly reduce the operational costs of network services by deploying virtualized network functions (VNFs) to commodity servers in place of dedicated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Xiaoke Wang , Chuan Wu , Franck Le , Alex Liu , Zongpeng Li , Francis Lau

Along with the increasing demand for latencysensitive services and applications, Deterministic Network (DetNet) concept has been recently proposed to investigate deterministic latency assurance for services featured with bounded latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-04 H. Yu , T. Taleb , J. Zhang

Service Function Chaining (SFC) requires efficient placement of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to satisfy diverse service requirements while maintaining high resource utilization in Data Centers (DCs). Conventional static resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Parisa Fard Moshiri , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci , Emil Janulewicz

Serial-parallel redundancy is a reliable way to ensure service and systems will be available in cloud computing. That method involves making copies of the same system or program, with only one remaining active. When an error occurs, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Gutha Jaya Krishna

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims to abstract the functionality of traditional proprietary hardware into software as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), which can run on commercial off the shelf (COTS) servers. Besides reducing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Abhishek Gupta , Brigitte Jaumard , Massimo Tornatore , Biswanath Mukherjee

Virtualization technology, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), gives flexibility to communication and 5G core network technologies for dynamic and efficient resource allocation while reducing the cost and dependability of the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Murat Arda Onsu , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci , Emil Janulewicz

Software Defined Networking (SDN) promises greater flexibility for directing packet flows, and Network Function Virtualization promises to enable dynamic management of software-based network functions. However, the current divide between an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Wei Zhang , Guyue Liu , Timothy Wood , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Jinho Hwang

The shift towards a completely virtualized networking environment is triggered by the emergence of software defined networking and network function virtualization (NFV). Network service providers have unlocked immense capabilities by these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Ibrahim Tamim , Manar Jammal , Hassan Hawilo , Abdallah Shami

In the continuously evolving cloud computing and network environment, service function chain (SFC) plays a crucial role in implementing complex services in the network with its flexible deployment capabilities. To address the limitations of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Xi Wang , Shuo Shi , Chenyu Wu

Under dynamic traffic, service function chain (SFC) migration is considered as an effective way to improve resource utilization. However, the lack of future network information leads to non-optimal solutions, which motivates us to study…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Ruoyun Chen , Hancheng Lu , Yujiao Lu , Jinxue Liu

Thanks to its computational and forwarding capabilities, the mobile network infrastructure can support several third-party ("vertical") services, each composed of a graph of virtual (network) functions (VNFs). Importantly, one or more VNFs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Francesco Malandrino , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Gil Einziger , Gabriel Scalosub

In current Data Center Networks (DCNs), Equal- Cost MultiPath (ECMP) is used as the de-facto routing protocol. However, ECMP does not differentiate between short and long flows, the two main categories of flows depending on their duration…

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

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

Edge-cloud convergence is reshaping service provisioning across 5G/6G and computing power networks (CPNs). Service function chaining (SFC) requires continuously placing and scheduling virtual network functions (VNFs) chains under…

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