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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

Virtualization technology, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), gives flexibility to communication and 5G core network technologies for dynamic and efficient resource allocation while reducing the cost and dependability of the physical…

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

Service Function Chaining (SFC) requires efficient placement of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to satisfy diverse service requirements while maintaining high resource utilization in Data Centers (DCs). Conventional static resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Parisa Fard Moshiri , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci , Emil Janulewicz

In the 5G era and beyond, it is favorable to deploy latency-sensitive and reliability-aware services on edge computing networks in which the computing and network resources are more limited compared to cloud and core networks but can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Congzhou Li , Zhouxiang Wu , Divya Khanure , Jason P. Jue

In this paper, we study a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based framework for an online end-user service provisioning in a Network Function Virtualization (NFV)-enabled network. We formulate an optimization problem aiming to minimize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Ali Nouruzi , Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohamad Reza Javan , Nader Mokari , Rasheed Hussain , Ahsan Syed Kazmi

Efficient Service Function Chain (SFC) provisioning and Virtual Network Function (VNF) placement are critical for enhancing network performance in modern architectures such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Parisa Fard Moshiri , Murat Arda Onsu , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci , Emil Janulewicz

Network slicing enables multiple virtual networks to be instantiated and customized to meet heterogeneous use case requirements over 5G and beyond network deployments. However, most of the solutions available today face scalability issues…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Farhad Rezazadeh , Lanfranco Zanzi , Francesco Devoti , Hatim Chergui , Xavier Costa-Perez , Christos Verikoukis

Service Function Chaining (SFC) is the problem of deploying various network service instances over geographically distributed data centers and providing inter-connectivity among them. The goal is to enable the network traffic to flow…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Deval Bhamare , Mohammed Samaka , Aiman Erbad , Raj Jain , Lav Gupta , H. Anthony Chan

In distributed optimization, the practical problem-solving performance is essentially sensitive to algorithm selection, parameter setting, problem type and data pattern. Thus, it is often laborious to acquire a highly efficient method for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Daokuan Zhu , Tianqi Xu , Jie Lu

In Federated Learning (FL), the limited accessibility of data from diverse locations and user types poses a significant challenge due to restricted user participation. Expanding client access and diversifying data enhance models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Mario Chahoud , Hani Sami , Azzam Mourad , Hadi Otrok , Jamal Bentahar , Mohsen Guizani

Using Service Function Chaining (SFC) in wireless networks became popular in many domains like networking and multimedia. It relies on allocating network resources to incoming SFCs requests, via a Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) algorithm,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Haitham Afifi , Fabian Sauer , Holger Karl

Clustered cell-free networking paves a new way for enabling scalable joint transmission among access points (APs) by partitioning the whole network into non-overlapping subnetworks. Previous works adopted clustering algorithms, graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ouyang Zhou , Junyuan Wang , Bo Qian , Antonio Pérez Yuste , Yusheng Ji

In software-defined networking (SDN), the implementation of distributed SDN controllers, with each controller responsible for managing a specific sub-network or domain, plays a critical role in achieving a balance between centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ioannis Panitsas , Akrit Mudvari , Leandros Tassiulas

In the rapidly evolving field of serverless computing, efficient function scheduling and resource scaling are critical for optimizing performance and cost. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the application of Deep Reinforcement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Amjad Yousef Majid , Eduard Marin

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed framework for collaborative model training over large-scale distributed data, enabling higher performance while maintaining client data privacy. However, the nature of model aggregation at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ali Murad , Bo Hui , Wei-Shinn Ku

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are technologies that recently acquired a great momentum thanks to their promise of being a flexible and cost-effective solution for replacing hardware-based,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Tong Liu , Franco Callegati , Walter Cerroni , Chiara Contoli , Maurizio Gabbrielli , Saverio Giallorenzo

This paper proposes an effective and novel multiagent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL)-based method for solving the joint virtual network function (VNF) placement and routing (P&R), where multiple service requests with differentiated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Shaoyang Wang , Chau Yuen , Wei Ni , Guan Yong Liang , Tiejun Lv

We are interested in the optimal scheduling of a collection of multi-component application jobs in an edge computing system that consists of geo-distributed edge computing nodes connected through a wide area network. The scheduling and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Zhi Cao , Honggang Zhang , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu

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

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,…

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