Network function virtualization: Challenges and opportunities for innovations

By Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Lusheng Ji, Seungjoon Lee. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2015

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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An Approach for Service Function Chain Routing and Virtual Function Network Instance Migration in Network Function Virtualization Architectures (2017, background): “Implementations of the paradigm have also been proposed [4] and the performance has been investigated [5].”
5G roadmap: 10 key enabling technologies (2016, background): “Hence, the security of he information being processed becomes important [53] .”
Optimized IoT service placement in the fog (2017, methodology): “A different service delivery model is Network Function Virtualization, described in a survey by Han et al. [18].”
Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “HybNET centrally controls and manages legacy and SDN-based switches through virtualization [159] across the entire network.”
How Can Edge Computing Benefit From Software-Defined Networking: A Survey, Use Cases, and Future Directions (2017, background): “customized middlebox which is a costly and vendor-dependent operation [191].”
Resource Allocation in NFV: A Comprehensive Survey (2016, background): “It also facilitates and promotes innovation in the network by leveraging virtualization technology to offer a new way to design the networks [4], [5].”
Mobile Edge Computing (2021, background): “However, the performance of current NFV implementations often falls well below that of dedicated hardware network equipment [24].”
Realizing the Tactile Internet: Haptic Communications over Next Generation 5G Cellular Networks (2015, methodology): “of RRC connection. To ensure the stability of haptic system, the eNodeB must support a fast RRC 2Detailed surveys on NFV and SDN are beyond the scope of this paper. Interested readers are referred to [12], [13] and the references therein. 3Our focus here is strictly on logical network architecture f”
Digital Twin in the IoT Context: A Survey on Technical Features, Scenarios, and Architectural Models (2020, background): “The layering and the separation of the functionalities of this architecture is designed to better serve programmers and developers in order to add elasticity, higher levels of flexibility, and Quality of Service in future communication networks [112] [113] [114].”
Resource Management in Fog/Edge Computing (2018, background): “y the control plane. NFV decouples networking functions such as routing and ﬁre-walling from the underlying proprietary hardware, and allows each of the functions to run on a VM on commodity hardware [121]. NFV is a complementary concept to SDN and is independent of it, although they are often combi”
Security for 5G and Beyond (2019, background): “For example, the concepts of cloud computing [8], Software Defined Networking (SDN) [9], and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) [10] are considered to be the potential”
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges (2018, positive): “NFV can provide programming capabilities in FANETs and reduces the network management complexity challenge [339], [340].”
Knowledge-Defined Networking (2016, background): “The resource management in NFV scenarios is a complex problem since VNF placement may have an important impact on the overall system performance.”
5G-Enabled Tactile Internet (2016, background): “The recent trends of network function virtualization (NFV) (providing abstraction [31]) and software defined networking (SDN) (providing flexibility [32]) are critical in shap-”
Smart Cities: A Survey on Data Management, Security, and Enabling Technologies (2017, background): “NFV can ease the deployment and management of smart city networks with respect to planned and routine maintenance [404] and”
Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges (2015, background): “NFV [3], [4] has been proposed as a way to address these challenges by leveraging virtualization technology to offer a new way to design, deploy and manage networking services.”
A survey on 5G: The next generation of mobile communication (2015, methodology): “or accessing the Internet) with services of the physical and data link layers. All the other higher layers’ applications may move to the cloud for universal access and outsourced computation services [55]. Smart societies. It is an abstract term for connected virtualized homes, ofﬁces, and stores. A”