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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) 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

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) developed Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Management and Orchestration (MANO) framework. Within that framework, NFV orchestrator (NFVO) and Virtualized Network Function (VNF)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh , Diala Naboulsi , Roch Glitho , Constant Wette Tchouati

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

Vision-language-action (VLA) models are effective as end-to-end motion planners, but can be brittle when evaluated in closed-loop settings due to being trained under traditional imitation learning framework. Existing closed-loop supervision…

Business models of network service providers are undergoing an evolving transformation fueled by vertical customer demands and technological advances such as 5G, Software Defined Networking~(SDN), and Network Function Virtualization~(NFV).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Nathan F. Saraiva de Sousa , Danny A. Lachos Perez , Raphael V. Rosa , Mateus A. S. Santos , Christian Esteve Rothenberg

Network operators are facing significant challenges meeting the demand for more bandwidth, agile infrastructures, innovative services, while keeping costs low. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud Computing are emerging as key…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Pier Luigi Ventre , Paolo Lungaroni , Giuseppe Siracusano , Claudio Pisa , Florian Schmidt , Francesco Lombardo , Stefano Salsano

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

Virtualization, either at OS- or hardware level, plays an important role in cloud computing. It enables easier automation and faster deployment in distributed environments. While virtualized infrastructures provide a level of management…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Mina Sedaghat , Pontus Sköldström , Daniel Turull , Vinay Yadhav , Joacim Halén , Madhubala Ganesan , Amardeep Mehta , Wolfgang John

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

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

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

State-of-art NPUs are typically architected as a self-contained sub-system with multiple heterogeneous hardware computing modules, and a dataflow-driven programming model. There lacks well-established methodology and tools in the industry…

Novel use cases and verticals such as connected cars and human-robot cooperation in the areas of 5G and Tactile Internet can significantly benefit from the flexibility and reduced latency provided by Network Function Virtualization (NFV)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Tung V. Doan , Giang T. Nguyen , Alexander Kropp , Frank H. P. Fitzek

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

Partially Supervised Multi-Task Learning (PS-MTL) aims to leverage knowledge across tasks when annotations are incomplete. Existing approaches, however, have largely focused on the simpler setting of homogeneous, dense prediction tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Fangzhou Lin , Yuping Wang , Yuliang Guo , Zixun Huang , Xinyu Huang , Haichong Zhang , Kazunori Yamada , Zhengzhong Tu , Liu Ren , Ziming Zhang

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

The increased use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in numerous domains will result in high traffic densities in the low-altitude airspace. Consequently, UAVs Traffic Management (UTM) systems that allow the integration of UAVs in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-05 O. Bekkouche , M. Bagaa , T. Taleb

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

Despite huge successes reported by the field of machine learning, such as voice assistants or self-driving cars, businesses still observe very high failure rate when it comes to deployment of ML in production. We argue that part of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Andrei Paleyes , Christian Cabrera , Neil D. Lawrence