Service Function Chaining (SFC) Architecture

By J. Halpern, C. Pignataro. Request for Comments, 2015

650 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems

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2. Cem Ersoy
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Citations in the corpus

• How Can Edge Computing Benefit From Software-Defined Networking: A Survey, Use Cases, and Future Directions (2017, background): “IETF RFC 7665 [211] is published in 2015 and describes the architecture for creating and maintaining SFC”
• A Survey on Intent-Based Networking (2023, background): “NFV is also closely related with the Network Service Chaining paradigm [43].”
• Automated Firewall Configuration in Virtual Networks (2023, positive): “network configuration, opening the possibility for users to dynamically request the creation of virtual Service Function Graphs [1], more commonly known as Service Graph (SG), generalization of the Service Function Chain (SFC) concept.”
• A survey on service function chaining (2016, methodology): “The SFC architecture introduced by Halpern and Pignataro proposes the use of network function forwarder (NFF) to determine SFPs dynamically and enforce the policies at run time (Figure 7) [8].”