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The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is enabling flexibility, programmability and implementation of traditional network functions into generic hardware, in form of the so-called Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Today, cloud…

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

Network functions virtualization (NFV) allows operators to employ NF chains to realize custom policies, and dynamically add instances to meet demand or for failover. NFs maintain detailed per- and cross-flow state which needs careful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Junaid Khalid , Aditya Akella

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) prescribes the instantiation of network functions on general-purpose network devices, such as servers and switches. While yielding a more flexible and cost-effective network architecture, NFV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ali Al-Shuwaili , Osvaldo Simeone , Joerg Kliewer , Petar Popovski

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

In this paper, we study the problem of delay minimization in NFV-based networks. In such systems, the ultimate goal of any request is to compute a sequence of functions in the network, where each function can be computed at only a specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Deployment of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) over multiple clouds accentuates its advantages like the flexibility of virtualization, proximity to customers and lower total cost of operation. However, NFV over multiple clouds has not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Lav Gupta , M. Samaka , Raj Jain , Aiman Erbad , Deval Bhamare , H. Anthony Chan

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

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

Network function virtualization is the key to developing elastically scalable and fault-tolerant network functions (e.g. load balancer, firewall etc.). By integrating NFV and SDN technologies, it is feasible to dynamically reroute traffic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Md Mahir Shahriyar , Gourab Saha , Bishwajit Bhattacharjee , Rezwana Reaz

Current solutions mostly focus on how to predict traffic, rather than observing traffic characteristics in a specific NFV scenario. So, most of them use a uniform threshold to scale in/out. In real NFV scenario, each VNF may serve the one…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Hua Chai

Virtualization enables multiple applications to share the same wireless sensor and actuator network (WSAN). However, in heterogeneous environments, virtualized wireless sensor and actuator networks (VWSAN) raise new challenges, such as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Carla Mouradian , Tonmoy Saha , Jagruti Sahoo , Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh , Roch Glitho , Monique Morrow , Paul Polakos

In this paper, we propose a novel joint intelligent trajectory design and resource allocation algorithm based on user's mobility and their requested services for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted networks, where UAVs act as nodes of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mohsen Pourghasemian , Mohammad Reza Abedi , Shima Salarhosseini , Nader Mokari , Mohammad Reza Javan , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined network (SDN) have become emerging network paradigms, allowing virtualized network function (VNF) deployment at a low cost. Even though VNF deployment can be flexible, it is still…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Namjin Seo , DongNyeong Heo , Heeyoul Choi

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) heralds a transformative era in network function deployment, enabling the orchestration of Service Function Chains (SFCs) for delivering complex and dynamic network services. Yet, the development and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhonghao Yang , Shuhao Zhang

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is very promising for efficient provisioning of network services and is attracting a lot of attention. NFV can be implemented in commercial off-the-shelf servers or Physical Machines (PMs), and many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Amir Varasteh , Marilet De Andrade , Carmen Mas Machuca , Lena Wosinska , Wolfgang Kellerer

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely adopted for tasks involving relational or graph-structured data and can be formulated as two-stage sparse-dense matrix multiplication (SpMM) during inference. However, existing accelerators…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bohan Li , Shengmin Li , Xinyu Shi , Enyi Yao , Francky Catthoor , Simei Yang

For state-of-the-art network function virtualization (NFV) systems, it remains a key challenge to conduct effective service chain composition for different network services (NSs) with ultra-low request latencies and minimum network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Simeng Bian , Xi Huang , Ziyu Shao , Xin Gao , Yang Yang

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is enabling the softwarization of traditional network services, commonly deployed in dedicated hardware, into generic hardware in form of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), which can be located flexibly…

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

With the growing adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), large-scale NFV infrastructure deployments are gaining momentum. Such infrastructures are home to thousands of network Service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Saifeddine Aidi , Mohamed Faten Zhani , Yehia Elkhatib

Conventional diffusion models typically relies on a fixed forward process, which implicitly defines complex marginal distributions over latent variables. This can often complicate the reverse process' task in learning generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-10 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth