Network virtualization: state of the art and research challenges

By Mosharaf Chowdhury, Raouf Boutaba. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2009

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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An Information Framework for Creating a Smart City Through Internet of Things (2014, methodology): “Thanks to the network virtualization technology [19], the idea can be realized by forming an application-layer overlay network, consisting of selected nodes (e.”
Software-Defined Network Function Virtualization: A Survey (2015, methodology): “NFV was proposed as a key technology to benefit IT virtualization evolution [4]–[6] by separating the hardware network functions from the underlying hardware appliances by transferring network functions from dedicated hardware to general”
Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking (2015, background): “We also give an overview of existing survey articles in these topic areas.”
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks in Cloud Computing Environments: A Survey, Some Research Issues, and Challenges (2016, background): “With network virtualization, multiple Virtual Networks (VNs) operated by different Service Providers (SPs) can dynamically share the physical substrate networks operated by Infrastructure Providers (InPs) [120], [121].”
On orchestrating virtual network functions (2015, background): “VNF-OP is a considerably harder problem to solve than traditional Virtual Network (VN) embedding problems [11], [12], [5], as virtual resources are shared between multiple requests.”
A survey of network virtualization (2010, background): “A summary of the characteristics of the surveyed network virtualization projects is presented in Table 1 (tabularized roughly in chronological order) [4].”
A Survey on Network Methodologies for Real-Time Analytics of Massive IoT Data and Open Research Issues (2017, background): “This is because the cloud computing emerged as one of the prominent areas for data computation and analytics due to its ability to provide computing-based services by means of sharing networks, storage, servers, applications, and so forth [61], [62].”
Virtual Network Embedding: A Survey (2013, background): “NETWORK virtualization [1], [2], [3], [4] is one of the most promising technologies for the future Internet.”
Holistic Network Virtualization and Pervasive Network Intelligence for 6G (2023, background): “The concept and techniques of network virtualization have been evolving over more than three decades [35].”
On the design of green reconfigurable router toward energy efficient internet (2011, methodology): “In recent years, network virtualization technologies [6] have been deemed efficient tools for embedding technological innovations and services in the current Internet against its ossification.”
Virtual network embedding through topology-aware node ranking (2011, background): “, cloud users/tenants) play two decoupled roles, namely, InPs manage the physical infrastructure while SPs create VNs and offer end-to-end services [27, 14, 8].”
Wireless Network Virtualization: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges (2015, background): “networks and other coexisting virtual networks.[5].”