A comprehensive survey of network function virtualization

B Yi, X Wang, K Li, M Huang - Computer Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
Today's networks are filled with a massive and ever-growing variety of network functions that
coupled with proprietary devices, which leads to network ossification and difficulty in network …

Smart cities: A survey on data management, security, and enabling technologies

A Gharaibeh, MA Salahuddin… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating the various embedded devices and systems in our environment enables an
Internet of Things (IoT) for a smart city. The IoT will generate tremendous amount of data that …

Recent advances of resource allocation in network function virtualization

S Yang, F Li, S Trajanovski… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been emerging as an appealing solution that
transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware implementations to software …

Cost-aware dynamic SFC mapping and scheduling in SDN/NFV-enabled space–air–ground-integrated networks for Internet of Vehicles

J Li, W Shi, H Wu, S Zhang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space–air–ground-integrated networks (SAGINs) are deemed as a promising solution to
support multifarious Internet of Vehicles (IoV) services with diversified Quality-of-Service …

A reliability-aware network service chain provisioning with delay guarantees in NFV-enabled enterprise datacenter networks

L Qu, C Assi, K Shaban… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditionally, service-specific network functions (NFs)(eg, Firewall, intrusion detection
system, etc.) are executed by installation-and maintenance-costly hardware middleboxes …

Delay-aware virtual network function placement and routing in edge clouds

S Yang, F Li, S Trajanovski, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers a way to shorten the cloud servicing delay by building
the small-scale cloud infrastructures at the network edge, which are in close proximity to the …

An end-to-end network slicing algorithm based on deep Q-learning for 5G network

T Li, X Zhu, X Liu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As one of key technologies of the fifth-generation (5G) communication system, network
slicing can share the underlying infrastructure with different application requirements and …

Joint optimization of service function chaining and resource allocation in network function virtualization

L Wang, Z Lu, X Wen, R Knopp, R Gupta - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) has already been a new paradigm for network
architectures. By migrating NFs from dedicated hardware to virtualization platform, NFV can …

Retracted article: dynamic resource allocation with optimized task scheduling and improved power management in cloud computing

J Praveenchandar, A Tamilarasi - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and …, 2021 - Springer
Cloud computing is one among the emerging platforms in business, IT enterprise and
mobile computing applications. Resources like Software, CPU, Memory and I/O devices etc …

Resource-ability assisted service function chain embedding and scheduling for 6G networks with virtualization

H Cao, J Du, H Zhao, DX Luo, N Kumar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While 5G is being deployed all around the world, the industry and academia start the
investigation of 6G. Network function virtualization (NFV) is seen as the key enabler towards …