In this paper, an analytical end-to-end (E2E) packet delay modeling is established for
multiple traffic flows traversing an embedded virtual network function (VNF) chain in fifth …

Network virtualization is an enabling technology of running multiple virtual networks on a
shared substrate network. It aims to deal with the ossification of current network architecture …

The recent network virtualization technology enables the multi-tenancy, where various
virtual network requests can share the same physical network by decoupling network …

Network virtualization is to deal with the ossification of current network architecture. Virtual
network embedding is a key issue in network virtualization. Many VNE algorithms have been …

Elastic Optical Network (EON) virtualization has recently emerged as an enabling
technology for 5G network slicing. A fundamental problem in EON slicing (known as Virtual …

The network function virtualization-enabled multicast problem includes constructing traffic
forwarding topology, deploying required functions and steering traffic through them …

Network virtualization has become one of the most prominent solutions that can efficiently
deal with the dramatic increase of data demand in mobile networks. In order to allow …

Network virtualization (NV), considered as a key enabler for overcoming the ossification of
the Internet allows multiple heterogeneous virtual networks to co-exist over the same …

Cloud computing provides on-demand IT services via large distributed datacenters over
high-speed networks. Virtualization, a key cloud computing technology, allows service …

This paper deals with the multiple link/node substrate failures that impact a multicast virtual
network (MVN) in which link recovery is not feasible and node migration is mandatory. A …