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Lying at the interface between Network Science and Machine Learning, node embedding algorithms take a graph as input and encode its structure onto output vectors that represent nodes in an abstract geometric space, enabling various…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-03 Riccardo Milocco , Fabian Jansen , Diego Garlaschelli

Recently, considerable research attention has been paid to network embedding, a popular approach to construct feature vectors of vertices. Due to the curse of dimensionality and sparsity in graphical datasets, this approach has become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Xi Liu , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Nick Duffield , Rui Chen , Muhe Xie , Xidao Wen

Graph embedding is a fundamental problem of mapping nodes of a guest graph into a host graph while minimizing the distance distortion, with broad applications, including virtual network embeddings into physical topologies, VLSI design, or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Julien Dallot , Darya Melnyk , Maciej Pacut , Stefan Schmid

Network virtualization has attracted significant amount of attention in the last few years as one of the key features of cloud computing. Network virtualization allows multiple virtual networks to share physical resources of single…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ashraf A. Shahin

This paper attends to the problem of embedding flexibly specified CloudNets, virtual networks connecting cloud resources (such as storage or computation). We attend to a scenario where customers can request CloudNets at short notice, and an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Gregor Schaffrath , Stefan Schmid , Anja Feldmann

This paper considers the network slicing (NS) problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse service requirements. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Wei-Kun Chen , Zheyu Wu , Rui-Jin Zhang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

This paper proposes a new approximation algorithm for the offline Virtual Network Embedding Problem (VNEP) with latency constraints. Given is a set of virtual networks with computational demands on nodes and bandwidth demands together with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Robin Münk , Matthias Rost , Stefan Schmid , Harald Räcke

Graph embedding is the major technique which is used to map guest graph into host graph. In architecture simulation, graph embedding is said to be one of the strongest application for the execution of parallel algorithm and simulation of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-12-26 R. Sundara Rajan , Rini Dominic D. , T. M. Rajalaxmi , L. Packiaraj

Assigning virtual network resources to physical network components, called Virtual Network Embedding, is a major challenge in cloud computing platforms. In this paper, we propose a memetic elitist pareto evolutionary algorithm for virtual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Ashraf A. Shahin

The increasing demand for diverse emerging applications has resulted in the interconnection of multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems via metro optical networks. To cater to these diverse applications, network slicing has become a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yingying Guan , Qingyang Song , Weijing Qi , Ke Li , Lei Guo , Abbas Jamalipour

Network embedding has recently attracted lots of attentions in data mining. Existing network embedding methods mainly focus on networks with pairwise relationships. In real world, however, the relationships among data points could go beyond…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Ke Tu , Peng Cui , Xiao Wang , Fei Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Network Embeddings (NEs) map the nodes of a given network into $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$. Ideally, this mapping is such that `similar' nodes are mapped onto nearby points, such that the NE can be used for purposes such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-17 Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

With the advent of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Physical Network Functions (PNFs) are gradually being replaced by Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) that are hosted on general purpose servers. Depending on the call flows for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Gamal Sallam , Gagan R. Gupta , Bin Li , Bo Ji

Embedding nodes of a large network into a metric (e.g., Euclidean) space has become an area of active research in statistical machine learning, which has found applications in natural and social sciences. Generally, a representation of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-16 Owen G. Ward , Zhen Huang , Andrew Davison , Tian Zheng

In this paper, we consider the network slicing problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

The recent advances in virtualization technology have enabled the sharing of computing and networking resources of cloud data centers among multiple users. Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) is highly important and is an integral part of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Hiren Kumar Thakkar , Chinmaya Kumar Dehury , Prasan Kumar Sahoo

In the conventional cloud service model, computing resources are allocated for tenants on a pay-per-use basis. However, the performance of applications that communicate inside this network is unpredictable because network resources are not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Feras Fattohi

Network function virtualization (NFV) is an emerging design paradigm that replaces physical middlebox devices with software modules running on general purpose commodity servers. While gradually transitioning to NFV, Internet service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Gamal Sallam , Zizhan Zheng , Bo Ji

Graph embedding is a powerful method in parallel computing that maps a guest network $G$ into a host network $H$. The performance of an embedding can be evaluated by certain parameters, such as the dilation, the edge congestion and the…

Network virtualization is a way to simultaneously run multiple heterogeneous architectures on a shared substrate. The main issue in network virtualization is mapping virtual networks to substrate network. How to manage substrate resources…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Amir Javadpour