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Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm, which has helped to introduce unseen flexibility in telecom networks. Network service providers, as well as big network infrastructure providers, are competing to offer personalized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-17 H. Hantouti , N. Benamar , T. Taleb

With the emergence of network function virtualization (NFV), and software-defined networking (SDN), the realization and implementation of service function chains (SFCs) have become much easier. An SFC is an ordered set of interconnected…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Nariman Torkzaban , John S. Baras

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zuyuan Zhang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Tian Lan

This paper introduces a novel methodology for Feature Selection for Functional Classification, FSFC, that addresses the challenge of jointly performing feature selection and classification of functional data in scenarios with categorical…

Matrix-parametrized models, including multiclass logistic regression and sparse coding, are used in machine learning (ML) applications ranging from computer vision to computational biology. When these models are applied to large-scale ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Pengtao Xie , Jin Kyu Kim , Yi Zhou , Qirong Ho , Abhimanu Kumar , Yaoliang Yu , Eric Xing

Matrix-parametrized models, including multiclass logistic regression and sparse coding, are used in machine learning (ML) applications ranging from computer vision to computational biology. When these models are applied to large-scale ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Pengtao Xie , Jin Kyu Kim , Yi Zhou , Qirong Ho , Abhimanu Kumar , Yaoliang Yu , Eric Xing

Nowadays, most telecommunication services adhere to the Service Function Chain (SFC) paradigm, where network functions are implemented via software. In particular, container virtualization is becoming a popular approach to deploy network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Luigi De Simone , Mario Di Mauro , Roberto Natella , Fabio Postiglione

Given the indispensable need for a reliable network architecture to cope with 5G networks, 3GPP introduced a covet technology dubbed 5G Service Based Architecture (5G-SBA). Meanwhile, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) combined with SBA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-20 R. A. Addad , D. L. C. Dutra , M. Bagaa , T. Taleb , H. Flinck

Multiple mobile manipulators show superiority in the tasks requiring mobility and dexterity compared with a single robot, especially when manipulating/transporting bulky objects. However, closed-chain of the system, redundancy of each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Heng Zhang , Haoyi Song , Wenhang Liu , Xinjun Sheng , Zhenhua Xiong , Xiangyang Zhu

Machine learning is essentially the sciences of playing with data. An adaptive data selection strategy, enabling to dynamically choose different data at various training stages, can reach a more effective model in a more efficient way. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Yang Fan , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Jiang Bian , Tie-Yan Liu

In this paper, we focus on the problems of traffic engineering, failure recovery, fault prevention, and Service Function Chain (SFC) with reliability and energy consumption constraints in Software Defined Networks (SDN). These types of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Mohammad M. Tajiki , Mohammad Shojafar , Behzad Akbari , Stefano Salsano , Mauro Conti , Mukesh Singhal

With a wide deployment of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) in the Fifth Generation (5G) mobile networks, virtual network functions (VNF) can be flexibly migrated between difference locations, and therewith significantly enhances the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Amina Lejla Ibrahimpasic , Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

Network services are increasingly managed by considering chained-up virtual network functions and relevant traffic flows, known as the Service Function Chains (SFCs). To deal with sequential arrivals of SFCs in an online fashion, we must…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zuyuan Zhang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Tian Lan

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. One central server is not enough, due to…

High-quality Service Function Chaining (SFC) provisioning is provided by the timely execution of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in a defined sequence. Advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) solutions are utilized in many studies to…

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

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

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) introduces a centralized network control and management by separating the data plane from the control plane which facilitates traffic flow monitoring, security analysis and policy formulation. However, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Trung V. Phan , Syed Tasnimul Islam , Tri Gia Nguyen , Thomas Bauschert

With the ever growing diversity of devices and applications that will be connected to 5G networks, flexible and agile service orchestration with acknowledged QoE that satisfies end-user's functional and QoS requirements is necessary. SDN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Xi Chen , Zonghang Li , Yupeng Zhang , Ruiming Long , Hongfang Yu , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Recent research on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) strongly promotes the adoption of distributed controller architectures. To achieve high network performance, designing a scheduling function (SF) to properly dispatch requests from each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Huang Victoria , Chen Gang , Fu Qiang

Feature Transformation is crucial for classic machine learning that aims to generate feature combinations to enhance the performance of downstream tasks from a data-centric perspective. Current methodologies, such as manual expert-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tianqi He , Xiaohan Huang , Yi Du , Qingqing Long , Ziyue Qiao , Min Wu , Yanjie Fu , Yuanchun Zhou , Meng Xiao