A survey on the placement of virtual network functions

J Sun, Y Zhang, F Liu, H Wang, X Xu, Y Li - Journal of Network and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dependence of traditional network functions (NFs) on special hardware results in high
capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX). Network Function …

NFVdeep: Adaptive online service function chain deployment with deep reinforcement learning

Y Xiao, Q Zhang, F Liu, J Wang, M Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
With the evolution of network function virtualization (NFV), diverse network services can be
flexibly offered as service function chains (SFCs) consisted of different virtual network …

A survey on virtual network functions for media streaming: Solutions and future challenges

R Viola, Á Martín, M Zorrilla, J Montalbán… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Media services must ensure an enhanced user's perceived quality during content playback
to attract and retain audiences, especially while the streams are distributed remotely via …

Holu: Power-aware and delay-constrained VNF placement and chaining

A Varasteh, B Madiwalar, A Van Bemten… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service function chains (SFCs) are an ordered set of virtual network functions (VNFs) which
can realize a specific network service. Enabled by virtualization technologies, these VNFs …

Dynamic service function chain orchestration for NFV/MEC-enabled IoT networks: A deep reinforcement learning approach

Y Liu, H Lu, X Li, Y Zhang, L Xi… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) and mobile-edge computing (MEC) have been
introduced by Internet service providers (ISPs) to deal with various challenges, which hinder …

Age of information aware VNF scheduling in industrial IoT using deep reinforcement learning

M Akbari, MR Abedi, R Joda… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In delay-sensitive industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, the age of information (AoI)
is employed to characterize the freshness of information. Meanwhile, the emerging network …

Trusted cloud-edge network resource management: DRL-driven service function chain orchestration for IoT

S Guo, Y Dai, S Xu, X Qiu, F Qi - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Private and public networks sharing resources for Internet of Things (IoT) network through
network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) forms a …

Joint VNF placement and scheduling for latency-sensitive services

N Promwongsa, A Ebrahimzadeh… - … on Network Science …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next-generation 6G networks are envisioned to be a key enabler for low-latency services
(eg, extended reality, remote surgery), which cannot be potentially realized by currently …

GNN-based hierarchical deep reinforcement learning for NFV-oriented online resource orchestration in elastic optical DCIs

B Li, Z Zhu - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) in elastic optical datacenter interconnections (EO-
DCIs) enables flexible and timely deployment of network services. However, as the service …

Cost-efficient VNF placement and scheduling in public cloud networks

T Gao, X Li, Y Wu, W Zou, S Huang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following successful adoption of cloud computing, many service providers (SPs) are now
using high-performance Virtual Machines (VMs) located in large datacenters owned by …