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A critical survey of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Communication Service Provider (CSP) networks use a variety of proprietary appliances for network function when delivering services. Therefore, deploying a new network function often requires new hardware components.
King, Daniel, Ford, Chris
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A software-defined architecture for next-generation cellular networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the recent years, mobile cellular networks are\ud undergoing fundamental changes and many established concepts are being revisited. New emerging paradigms, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), Network Function ...
Vasilakis, Vasileios   +8 more
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SENATUS: an experimental SDN/NFV Orchestrator [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The fifth generation telecommunication standard (5G) will make use of novel technologies, such as Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
Guido Maier   +3 more
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Optimising resource allocation for virtual network functions in SDN/NFV‐enabled MEC networks [PDF]

open access: yesIET Communications, 2021
Abstract Network function virtualisation (NFV), software defined networks (SDNs), and mobile edge computing (MEC) are emerging as core technologies to satisfy increasing number of users' demands in 5G and beyond wireless networks. SDN provides clean separation of the control plane from the data plane while NFV enables the flexible and
Kiran Nahida   +3 more
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Impact of Processing Costs on Service Chain Placement in Network Functions Virtualization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is the most promising technique to help network providers in the reduction of capital and energy costs.
SAVI, MARCO   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Virtual Networking Performance in OpenStack Platform for Network Function Virtualization

open access: yesJournal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016
The emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, coupled with the highly flexible and programmatic control of network devices offered by Software Defined Networking solutions, enables unprecedented levels of network virtualization that will ...
Franco Callegati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An online service function chain orchestration method for profit maximization in edge computing networks

open access: yesEngineering Reports, 2023
Network function virtualization (NFV) is an appealing solution that transforms complex network functions from dedicated hardware to software instances running in a virtualized environment.
Chen Yang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survey on network function virtualization in RAN

open access: yesDianxin kexue, 2019
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a kind of new network technology rising in recent years. It realizes the decoupling of software and hardware by running the software which has specific function on a general-purpose hardware server.
Haiyu JIA, Jia CHEN, Mingxin WANG
doaj   +2 more sources

Reconfiguration Aware Orchestration for Network Function Virtualization With Time-Varied Workload in Virtualized Datacenters

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2021
Network function virtualization (NFV) is an emerging paradigm that has revolutionized the deployment and provisioning of telecommunication network services (NS). In NFV, a network service is implemented as a chain of network functions (NFs).
Satyajit Padhy, Jerry Chou
doaj   +1 more source

Automated Analysis and Profiling of VirtualNetwork Functions: the NFV-Inspector Approach

open access: yes, 2018
Discovering insights about Virtual Network Function (VNFs) resource demand characteristics will enable cloud vendors to optimize their underlying Network Function Virtualization (NFV) system orchestration and dramatically mitigate CapEx and OpEx ...
Taheri, Javid,   +11 more
core   +1 more source

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