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The reliance of organisations on computer networks is enabled by network programmability, which is typically achieved through Service Function Chaining. These chains virtualise network functions, link them, and programmatically embed them…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Theviyanthan Krishnamohan , Lauritz Thamsen , Paul Harvey

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

To support multiple on-demand services over fixed communication networks, network operators must allow flexible customization and fast provision of their network resources. One effective approach to this end is network virtualization,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Nan Zhang , Ya-Feng Liu , Hamid Farmanbar , Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

As particle accelerator control systems evolve in complexity and scale, the need for responsive, scalable, and cost-effective computational infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers an alternative to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 A. Jaikar , J. Diamond , A. Tiradani , B. Harrison

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) and network function virtualization (NFV) are promising technologies to support emerging IoT applications, especially those computation-intensive. In NFV-enabled MEC environment, service function chain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xinhan Wang , Huanlai Xing , Fuhong Song , Shouxi Luo , Penglin Dai , Bowen Zhao

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

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

In the forthcoming era of 6G networks, characterized by unprecedented data rates, ultra-low latency, and ubiquitous connectivity, effective management of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) is essential. VNFs are software-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Cyril Shih-Huan Hsu , Anestis Dalgkitsis , Chrysa Papagianni , Paola Grosso

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) provides a flexible transmission framework that can be applied in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. However, the research work on RSMA-assisted MEC systems is still at the infancy and many design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Ding Xu , Lingjie Duan , Haitao Zhao , Hongbo Zhu

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Takanori Hara , Masahiro Sasabe

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is booming as a promising paradigm to push the computation and communication resources from cloud to the network edge to provide services and to perform computations. With container technologies, mobile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Zijie Liu , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar

In this paper, we consider the service caching and the computing resource allocation in edge computing (EC) enabled networks. We introduce a random service caching design considering multiple types of latency sensitive services and the base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Mingun Kim , Hewon Cho , Ying Cui , Jemin Lee

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables low-latency and high-bandwidth applications by bringing computation and data storage closer to end-users. Intelligent computing is an important application of MEC, where computing resources are used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Yapeng Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

The Metaverse promises immersive, real-time experiences; however, meeting its stringent latency and resource demands remains a major challenge. Conventional optimization techniques struggle to respond effectively under dynamic edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sulaiman Muhammad Rashid , Ibrahim Aliyu , Jaehyung Park , Jinsul Kim

In mobile edge computing (MEC), one of the important challenges is how much resources of which mobile edge server (MES) should be allocated to which user equipment (UE). The existing resource allocation schemes only consider CPU as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Zaiwar Ali , Sadia Khaf , Ziaul Haq Abba , Ghulam Abbas , Lei Jiao , Amna Irshad , Kyung Sup Kwak , Muhammad Bilal

With the increasing popularity of recommendation systems (RecSys), the demand for compute resources in datacenters has surged. However, the model-wise resource allocation employed in current RecSys model serving architectures falls short in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yujeong Choi , Jiin Kim , Minsoo Rhu

Serverless computing is a cloud computing paradigm that allows developers to focus exclusively on business logic as cloud service providers manage resource management tasks. Serverless applications follow this model, where the application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Anshul Jindal , Mohak Chadha , Shajulin Benedict , Michael Gerndt

In order to meet the performance/privacy requirements of future data-intensive mobile applications, e.g., self-driving cars, mobile data analytics, and AR/VR, service providers are expected to draw on shared storage/computation/connectivity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jiaxiao Zheng , Gustavo de Veciana

In the framework of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the reliability of Service Function Chain (SFC), -- an end-to-end service is presented by a chain of virtual network functions (VNFs), is a complex function of placement,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Anna Engelmann , Admela Jukan