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Traditionally, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been implemented to run on Virtual Machines (VMs) in form of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). More recently, the so-called Serverless Computing has gained traction in cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Francisco Carpio , Wolfgang Bziuk , Admela Jukan

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…

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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Distributed Networking (SDN) technologies play a crucial role in enabling 5G system and beyond. A synergy between these both technologies has been identified for enabling a new concept…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 M. Bagaa , T. Taleb , J. B. Bernabe , A. Skarmeta

With the growing demand for data connectivity, network service providers are faced with the task of reducing their capital and operational expenses while simultaneously improving network performance and addressing the increased connectivity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Dimitrios Michael Manias , Manar Jammal , Hassan Hawilo , Abdallah Shami , Parisa Heidari , Adel Larabi , Richard Brunner

Service Function Chain (SFC) provisioning stands as a pivotal technology in the realm of 5G and future networks. Its essence lies in orchestrating VNFs (Virtual Network Functions) in a specified sequence for different types of SFC requests.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Murat Arda Onsu , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci , Emil Janulewicz , Sergio Slobodrian

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

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) allows flexibility, scalability, agility, and easy manageability of networks by leveraging the features of virtualization and cloud computing technologies. However, softwarization of network functions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Prabhu Kaliyammal Thiruvasagam , Vijeth J. Kotagi , C. Siva Ram Murthy

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are new paradigms in the move towards open software and network hardware. While NFV aims to virtualize network functions and deploy them into general purpose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Michel S. Bonfim , Kelvin L. Dias , Stenio F. L. Fernandes

In this paper, we first introduce the NFV architecture and the use of IPv6 Segment Routing (SRv6) network programming model to support Service Function Chaining in a NFV scenario. We describe the concepts of SR-aware and SR-unaware Virtual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Ahmed AbdelSalam , Francois Clad , Clarence Filsfils , Stefano Salsano , Giuseppe Siracusano , Luca Veltri

It is expected that the next generation cellular networks provide a connected society with fully mobility to empower the socio-economic transformation. Several other technologies will benefits of this evolution, such as Internet of Things,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Guto Leoni Santos , Patricia Takako Endo

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging paradigm that turns hardware-dependent implementation of network functions (i.e., middleboxes) into software modules running on virtualized platforms, for significant cost reduction and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Yongzheng Jia , Chuan Wu , Zongpeng Li , Franck Le , Alex Liu

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Jing Liu , Guochu Shou , Qingtian Wang , Yaqiong Liu , Yihong Hu , Zhigang Guo

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables the "softwarization" of network functions, which are implemented on virtual machines hosted on Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. Both the composition of the virtual network functions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

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

The paradigm of network function virtualization (NFV) with the support of software defined networking (SDN) emerges as a promising approach for customizing network services in fifth generation (5G) networks. In this paper, a multicast…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Omar Alhussein , Phu Thinh Do , Qiang Ye , Junling Li , Weisen Shi , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin , Shen , Xu Li , Jaya Rao

Network softwarization is one of the major paradigm shifts in the next generation of networks. It enables programmable and flexible management and deployment of the network. Network function virtualization (NFV) is referred to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan , Vahid Shah-Mansouri , Dusit Niyato

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a new concept that has received the attention of both researchers and network providers. NFV decouples network functions from specialized hardware devices and virtualizes these network functions as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Samane Asgari , Shahram Jamali , Reza Fotohi , Mahdi Nooshyar

Network function virtualization (NFV) enables on-demand network function (NF) deployment providing agile and dynamic network services. Through an evaluation metric that quantifies the minimal reliability among all NFs for all demands,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Tachun Lin , Zhili Zhou

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

Plug-and-play information technology (IT) infrastructure has been expanding very rapidly in recent years. With the advent of cloud computing, many ecosystem and business paradigms are encountering potential changes and may be able to…

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