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All 388 papers.

A static, indexable list of papers in the curated SDN/NFV network resource allocation catalog. Use the interactive catalog for full-text search, filters, exports, and paper details.

2026

2026NSDI / CCF-A

A Fast Solver-Free Algorithm for Traffic Engineering in Large-Scale Data Center Network
Yingming Mao, Qiaozhu Zhai, Ximeng Liu, Zhen Yao, Xia Zhu, Yuzhou Zhou
2026TMC / CCF-A

Adaptive Orchestration of Service Function Chains in SAGIN-MEC via Graph Reinforcement Learning
Peiying Zhang, Shengpeng Chen, Jian Fan, Lizhuang Tan, Chunxiao Jiang
2026TMC / CCF-A

An SFC-Constrained Max-Flow Solver for Satellite Networks Using Flexible Function-Time Expanded Graph
Peng Wang, Suman Sourav, Binbin Chen, Hongyan Li
2026TMC / CCF-A

AvailGuard: An Availability-aware VNF Deployment Framework Based on Traffic Forecasting in SDN/NFV-enabled Networks
Yi Yue, Xiongyan Tang, Lexi Xu, Chang Cao, Wencong Yang, Yaru Zhao, Lingyang Song
2026TMC / CCF-A

CORMO-RAN: Energy Efficiency at the Near-RT RIC via Lossless Migration of O-RAN xApps
Antonio Calagna, Stefano Maxenti, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D’Oro, Tommaso Melodia, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
2026IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Software Defined Networking: A Survey, Research Challenges, and Future Perspectives
Vijay Prakash Bijlwan, Neetesh Kumar
2026TMC / CCF-A

DetO-RAN: Dual-Timescale Resource Allocation for Flows in Deterministic Open RAN
Kai Qiao, Hao Xiong, Qinding Wang, Zihao Zhang, Hongchao Wang, Weiting Zhang, Dong Yang
2026TMC / CCF-A

Dynamic VNF Orchestration for UAV-Aided Emergency Networks: A Learning and Optimization Control Loop Framework
Chuan Pham, Kim Khoa Nguyen
2026TMC / CCF-A

Failure Recovery for Network Slicing in Software-Defined Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
Huiting Yang, Shengyu Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenqiang Pu, Haibo Zhou, Zan Li, Tony Q. S. Quek
2026TMC / CCF-A

FlexVNE: A LLM-Powered Flexible Framework for Virtual Network Embedding in Cloud-Network Convergence
Fan Pan, Le Tian, Dan Li, Pengshuai Cui, Yu Wang, Xuanyan Song, Menglong Li, Xinglong Pei, Yuxiang Hu, Xiaobo Guo
2026IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Engineering in Programmable Networks: A Survey
Santiago Ríos-Guiral, Abdelkader Lahmadi, Juan F. Botero, Sergio A. Gutiérrez
2026TMC / CCF-A

Maritime-Oriented Network Slicing in O-RAN Integrated Aerial-Terrestrial Networks
Sahar Ammar, Wiem Abderrahim, Basem Shihada
2026TMC / CCF-A

PAAP: A Graph-Based VNF Deployment Framework for Embedding Bidirectional SFC in Mobile Edge Networks
Yuhao Xie, Dehui Ou, Zhen Zhang, Yuhui Deng, Geyong Min, Lin Cui, Zhijie Wang
2026TMC / CCF-A

Reliability-Enhanced Network Slicing for Time-Varying Software-Defined Space Information Network
Huiting Yang, Feng Wang, Wei Liu, Wenqiang Pu, Haibo Zhou, Tony Q. S. Quek
2026TMC / CCF-A

Robust SFC Placement in Next Generation Multi-Domain IoT Networks Under Resource Demand Uncertainty
Chuangchuang Zhang, Qiang He, Fuliang Li, Xingwei Wang, Wei Qian, Junxin Chen, Kaifa Zheng, Ammar Hawbani, Keping Yu
2026TMC / CCF-A

Traffic Digital Twin-Enabled Orchestration and Scheduling in O-RAN: A Multi-Timescale Joint Optimization Approach
Yinlin Ren, Longyu Zhou, Shaoyong Guo, Xuesong Qiu, Tony Q. S. Quek
2026ICLR / CCF-A

Virne: A Comprehensive Benchmark for RL-based Network Resource Allocation in NFV
Tianfu Wang, Liwei Deng, Xi Chen, Junyang Wang, Huiguo He, Zhengyu Hu, Wei Wu, Leilei Ding, Qilin Fan, Hui Xiong
2026TMC / CCF-A

VMR-STAG Based Online SFC Orchestration in Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks
Yepeng Liu, Ran Zhang, Jiang Liu, Ninghan Sun, Xinyuan Zhang

2025

2025IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

A Survey on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Improved Rich Media Content Delivery in a 5G and Beyond Network Slicing Context
Fazal E. Subhan, Abid Yaqoob, Cristina Hava Muntean, Gabriel-Miro Muntean
2025IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

A Survey on Beyond 5G Network Slicing for Smart Cities Applications
Wajid Rafique, Joyeeta Rani Barai, Abraham O. Fapojuwo, Diwakar Krishnamurthy
2025JSAC / CCF-A

Adaptive and Low-Cost Traffic Engineering: A Traffic Matrix Clustering Perspective
Yi Liu, Nan Geng, Mingwei Xu, Yuan Yang, Enhuan Dong, Chenyi Liu, Qiaoyin Gan, Qing Li, Jianping Wu
2025INFOCOM / CCF-A

AdaSlicing: Adaptive Online Network Slicing Under Continual Network Dynamics in Open Radio Access Networks
Ming Zhao, Yuru Zhang, Qiang Liu, Ahan Kak, Nakjung Choi
2025INFOCOM / CCF-A

Aether: Toward Generalized Traffic Engineering with Elastic Multi-agent Graph Transformers
Yu Fan, Jingyao Liu, Pengjin Xie, Liang Liu
2025IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

AI-Empowered Virtual Network Embedding: A Comprehensive Survey
Sheng Wu, Ning Chen, Ailing Xiao, Peiying Zhang, Chunxiao Jiang, Wei Zhang
2025SIGCOMM / CCF-A

AoRA: AI-on-RAN for Backhaul-free Edge Inference
Siyavushkhon Kholmatov, Seongsik Cho, Kyunghan Lee, Song Chong
2025TMC / CCF-A

Cost-Aware Neural Adaptive Scaling for vRAN Resource Allocation
Taeyun Kim, Daeyoung Jung, Yujin Kim, Sangheon Pack
2025TMC / CCF-A

DeepSelector: A Deep Learning-Based Virtual Network Function Placement Approach in SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks
Yi Yue, Xiongyan Tang, Ying-Chang Liang, Chang Cao, Lexi Xu, Wencong Yang, Zhiyan Zhang
2025INFOCOM / CCF-A

FairRIC: Real-Time Fair Allocation in O-RAN with Shared Computing
Fatih Aslan, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez, George Iosifidis
2025JSAC / CCF-A

Fast Reoptimization With Only a Few Changes: Enhancing Tactical Traffic Engineering With Segment Routing Midpoint Optimization
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck
2025INFOCOM / CCF-A

GreenRAN: A Channel-Aware Green O-RAN Framework for NextG Mobile Systems
Chaoqun You, Xingqiu He, Yao Sun, Gang Feng, Tony Q. S. Quek
2025SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Hattrick: Solving Multi-Class TE using Neural Models
Abd AlRhman AlQiam, Zhuocong Li, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Zhaodong Wang, Ying Zhang, Sanjay G. Rao, Bruno Ribeiro, Mohit Tawarmalani
2025TMC / CCF-A

Joint Dynamic VNF Placement and Delay and Jitter Aware Multicast Routing in NFV-Enabled SDNs
Liang Liu, Siyuan Tan, Songtao Guo, Guiyan Liu, Hao Feng
2025INFOCOM / CCF-A

Kairos: Energy-Efficient Radio Unit Control for O-RAN via Advanced Sleep Modes
J. Xavier Salvat Lozano, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez
2025JSAC / CCF-A

Maintaining Predictable Traffic Engineering Performance Under Controller Failures for Software-Defined WANs
Songshi Dou, Zehua Guo
2025TMC / CCF-A

Mixed Numerology-Based Intelligent Resource Management in a Sliced 6G Space–Terrestrial Integrated Radio Access Network
Ning Hui, Qian Sun, Jie Zeng, Lin Tian, Yuanyuan Wang, Yiqing Zhou
2025INFOCOM / CCF-A

Network Diffuser for Placing-Scheduling Service Function Chains with Inverse Demonstration
Zuyuan Zhang, Vaneet Aggarwal, Tian Lan
2025SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Nezha: SmartNIC-based Virtual Switch Load Sharing
Xing Li, Enge Song, Bowen Yang, Tian Pan, Ye Yang, Qiang Fu, Yang Song, Yilong Lv, Zikang Chen, Jianyuan Lu, Shize Zhang, Xiaoqing Sun, Rong Wen, Xionglie Wei, Biao Lyu, Zhigang Zong, Qinming He, Shunmin Zhu
2025TMC / CCF-A

O-RAN Intelligence Orchestration Framework for Quality-Driven xApp Deployment and Sharing
Federico Mungari, Corrado Puligheddu, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
2025TMC / CCF-A

O-RAN-Enabled Intelligent Network Slicing to Meet Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
Jiongyu Dai, Lianjun Li, Ramin Safavinejad, Shadab Mahboob, Hao Chen, Vishnu V Ratnam, Haining Wang, Jianzhong Zhang, Lingjia Liu
2025TMC / CCF-A

Online Flow Scheduling in Virtualized Time-Sensitive Networks: A Joint Admission Control and VNF Embedding Approach
Yajing Zhang, Cailian Chen, Mingyan Li, Chaoqun You, Xinping Guan, Tony Q. S. Quek
2025TON / CCF-A

Optimal Control for Distributed Wireless SDN: Theory and Architecture
Quang Minh Nguyen, Eytan Modiano
2025JSAC / CCF-A

Path-Based Graph Neural Network for Robust and Resilient Routing in Distributed Traffic Engineering
Minghao Ye, Junjie Zhang, Zehua Guo, H. Jonathan Chao
2025SIGCOMM / CCF-A

PreTE: Traffic Engineering with Predictive Failures
Congcong Miao, Zhizhen Zhong, Yiren Zhao, Arpit Gupta, Ying Zhang, Sirui Li, Zekun He, Xianneng Zou, Jilong Wang
2025TON / CCF-A

Provable Approximation Algorithms for Online Traffic-Sensitive SFC Deployment
Yingling Mao, Xiaojun Shang, Yuanyuan Yang
2025TON / CCF-A

Provably Efficient Service Function Chain Embedding and Protection in Edge Networks
Danyang Zheng, Xiaojun Cao
2025TMC / CCF-A

Quantum-Assisted Joint Virtual Network Function Deployment and Maximum Flow Routing for Space Information Networks
Yu Zhang, Yanmin Gong, Lei Fan, Yu Wang, Zhu Han, Yuanxiong Guo
2025JSAC / CCF-A

RRO: A Regularized Routing Optimization Algorithm for Enhanced Throughput and Low Latency With Efficient Complexity
David Zenati, Tzalik Maimon, Kobi Cohen
2025JSAC / CCF-A

SAST-VNE: A Flexible Framework for Network Slicing in 6G Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
Mario Minardi, Youssouf Drif, Thang X. Vu, Symeon Chatzinotas
2025SIGCOMM / CCF-A

SaTE: Low-Latency Traffic Engineering for Satellite Networks
Hao Wu, Yizhan Han, Mohit Rajpal, Qizhen Zhang, Jingxian Wang
2025JSAC / CCF-A

SDN-Based Service Function Chaining in Integrated Terrestrial and LEO Satellite-Based Space Internet
Gao Zheng, Ning Wang, Peng Qian, David Griffin, Regius Rahim Tafazolli
2025TMC / CCF-A

Service Function Chain Deployment With VNF-Dependent Software Migration in Multi-Domain Networks
Yuhan Zhang, Ran Wang, Jie Hao, Qiang Wu, Yidan Teng, Ping Wang, Dusit Niyato
2025SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Small-scale LEO Satellite Networking for Global-scale Demands
Yuanjie Li, Yimei Chen, Jiabo Yang, Jinyao Zhang, Bowen Sun, Lixin Liu, Hewu Li, Jianping Wu, Zeqi Lai, Qian Wu, Jun Liu
2025TSC / CCF-A

SPAVM: A SFC Placement and VNF Migration Framework for VNF Instance Reuse in Vehicle-Infrastructure Collaboration
Shihong Hu, Kaixin Zhang, Zhihao Qu, Baoliu Ye
2025IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Virtual Network Embedding: Literature Assessment, Recent Advancements, Opportunities, and Challenges
Anurag Satpathy, Manmath Narayan Sahoo, Chittaranjan Swain, Paolo Bellavista, Mohsen Guizani, Khan Muhammad, Sambit Bakshi

2024

2024INFOCOM / CCF-A

A Practical Near Optimal Deployment of Service Function Chains in Edge-to-Cloud Networks
Rasoul Behravesh, David Breitgand, Dean H. Lorenz, Danny Raz
2024TSC / CCF-A

Adaptive Network Management Service Based on Control Relation Graph for Software-Defined LEO Satellite Networks in 6G
Long Chen, Feilong Tang, Xu Li, Jiacheng Liu, Yanmin Zhu, Jiadi Yu
2024JSAC / CCF-A

AIRIC: Orchestration of Virtualized Radio Access Networks With Noisy Neighbours
Josep Xavier Salvat Lozano, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xi Li, Xavier Costa Perez
2024TMC / CCF-A

Analytical Modeling and Improvement of Interference-Coupled RAN Slicing
Seyed Ali Hashemian, Farid Ashtiani
2024TSC / CCF-A

AoI-Aware Inference Services in Edge Computing via Digital Twin Network Slicing
Yuncan Zhang, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Wenzheng Xu, Min Chen
2024TSC / CCF-A

Aquifer: Transparent Microsecond-Scale Scheduling for vRAN Workloads
Yunshan Jia, Yinmin Zhong, Meng Wang, Jiaqi Gao, Pengyu Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu, Xin Jin
2024JSAC / CCF-A

ATHENA: Machine Learning and Reasoning for Radio Resources Scheduling in vRAN Systems
Nikolaos Apostolakis, Marco Gramaglia, Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou, Tejas Subramanya, Albert Banchs, Henning Sanneck
2024NSDI / CCF-A

Automatic Parallelization of Software Network Functions
Francisco Pereira, Fernando M. V. Ramos, Luis Pedrosa
2024TMC / CCF-A

Availability Aware Online Virtual Network Function Backup in Edge Environments
Yu Liu, Xiaojun Shang, Yingling Mao, Zhenhua Liu, Yuanyuan Yang
2024TON / CCF-A

Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning-Based Resource Allocation and Trading for Network Slicing in 5G
Daniel Ayepah-Mensah, Guolin Sun, Gordon Owusu Boateng, Stephen Anokye, Guisong Liu
2024JSAC / CCF-A

Cell-Free Massive MIMO in O-RAN: Energy-Aware Joint Orchestration of Cloud, Fronthaul, and Radio Resources
Özlem Tuğfe Demir, Meysam Masoudi, Emil Björnson, Cicek Cavdar
2024MobiCom / CCF-A

CloudRIC: Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Virtualization with Shared Heterogeneous Computing
Leonardo Lo Schiavo, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Perez
2024TMC / CCF-A

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Online Resource Allocation in Network Slicing
Yue Cai, Peng Cheng, Zhuo Chen, Ming Ding, Branka Vucetic, Yonghui Li
2024TMC / CCF-A

Digital Twin-Assisted, SFC-Enabled Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge Computing
Jing Li, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Quan Chen, Zichuan Xu, Wenzheng Xu, Albert Y. Zomaya
2024TSC / CCF-A

Dynamic Fine-Grained SLA Management for 6G eMBB-Plus Slice Using mDNN & Smart Contracts
Sadaf Bukhari, Kashif Sharif, Liehuang Zhu, Chang Xu, Fan Li, Sujit Biswas
2024TON / CCF-A

Dynamic Network Slice for Bursty Edge Traffic
Rongxin Han, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Dezhi Chen, Zirui Zhuang, Haifeng Sun, Xiaoyuan Fu, Jianxin Liao, Song Guo
2024TON / CCF-A

eBPFlow: A Hardware/Software Platform to Seamlessly Offload Network Functions Leveraging eBPF
Racyus D. G. Pacífico, Lucas F. S. Duarte, Luiz F. M. Vieira, Barath Raghavan, José A. M. Nacif, Marcos A. M. Vieira
2024TMC / CCF-A

Efficient Deployment of Partial Parallelized Service Function Chains in CPU+DPU-Based Heterogeneous NFV Platforms
Ran Wang, Xue Yu, Qiang Wu, Changyan Yi, Ping Wang, Dusit Niyato
2024TMC / CCF-A

End-to-End Resource Slicing for Coexistence of eMBB and URLLC Services in 5G-Advanced/6G Networks
Shiva Kazemi Taskou, Mehdi Rasti, Ekram Hossain
2024TSC / CCF-A

Energy-Aware Design Policy for Network Slicing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ranyin Wang, Vasilis Friderikos, A. Hamid Aghvami
2024TMC / CCF-A

Fair and Scalable Orchestration of Network and Compute Resources for Virtual Edge Services
Sharda Tripathi, Corrado Puligheddu, Somreeta Pramanik, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
2024IJCAI / CCF-B

FlagVNE: A Flexible and Generalizable Reinforcement Learning Framework for Network Resource Allocation
Tianfu Wang, Qilin Fan, Chao Wang, Long Yang, Leilei Ding, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Hui Xiong
2024JSAC / CCF-A

Flexible RAN Slicing in Open RAN With Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Mohammad Zangooei, Morteza Golkarifard, Mohamed Rouili, Niloy Saha, Raouf Boutaba
2024TON / CCF-A

FlexNF: Flexible Network Function Orchestration for Scalable On-Path Service Chain Serving
Jingyu Xiao, Xudong Zuo, Qing Li, Dan Zhao, Hanyu Zhao, Yong Jiang, Jiyong Sun, Bin Chen, Yong Liang, Jie Li
2024JSAC / CCF-A

Hierarchical Network Slicing for UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks With Deployment Optimization
Fengsheng Wei, Gang Feng, Shuang Qin, Youkun Peng, Yijing Liu
2024JSAC / CCF-A

Information-Aware Driven Dynamic LEO-RAN Slicing Algorithm Joint With Communication, Computing, and Caching
Geng Chen, Shuhu Qi, Fei Shen, Qingtian Zeng, Yu-Dong Zhang
2024TSC / CCF-A

Joint Admission Control and Resource Allocation of Virtual Network Embedding Via Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tianfu Wang, Li Shen, Qilin Fan, Tong Xu, Tongliang Liu, Hui Xiong
2024TON / CCF-A

Maximize the Long-Term Average Revenue of Network Slice Provider via Admission Control Among Heterogeneous Slices
Miao Dai, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato
2024SIGCOMM / CCF-A

MegaTE: Extending WAN Traffic Engineering to Millions of Endpoints in Virtualized Cloud
Congcong Miao, Zhizhen Zhong, Yunming Xiao, Feng Yang, Senkuo Zhang, Yinan Jiang, Zizhuo Bai, Chaodong Lu, Jingyi Geng, Zekun He, Yachen Wang, Xianneng Zou, Chuanchuan Yang
2024IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Network Slicing-Based Learning Techniques for IoV in 5G and Beyond Networks
Wafa Hamdi, Chahrazed Ksouri, Hasan Bulut, Mohamed Mosbah
2024JSAC / CCF-A

Network-Aided Intelligent Traffic Steering in 6G O-RAN: A Multi-Layer Optimization Framework
Van-Dinh Nguyen, Thang X. Vu, Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Dinh C. Nguyen, Markku Juntti, Nguyen Cong Luong, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N. Nguyen, Symeon Chatzinotas
2024JSAC / CCF-A

Neyman-Pearson Criterion Driven NFV-SDN Architectures and Optimal Resource-Allocations for Statistical-QoS Based mURLLC Over Next-Generation Metaverse Mobile Networks Using FBC
Xi Zhang, Qixuan Zhu, H. Vincent Poor
2024JSAC / CCF-A

O-M3: Real-Time Multi-Cell MIMO Scheduling in 5G O-RAN
Yongce Chen, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou, Jeffrey H. Reed, Sastry Kompella
2024INFOCOM / CCF-A

ORANUS: Latency-Tailored Orchestration via Stochastic Network Calculus in 6G O-RAN
Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Pérez
2024INFOCOM / CCF-A

OREO: O-RAN Intelligence Orchestration of xApp-Based Network Services
Federico Mungari, Corrado Puligheddu, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
2024TON / CCF-A

Parallel Placement of Virtualized Network Functions via Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning
Haojun Huang, Jialin Tian, Geyong Min, Hao Yin, Cheng Zeng, Yangming Zhao, Dapeng Oliver Wu
2024INFOCOM / CCF-A

Providing UE-Level QoS Support by Joint Scheduling and Orchestration for 5G vRAN
Jiamei Lv, Yi Gao, Zhi Ding, Yuxiang Lin, Xinyun You, Guang Yang, Wei Dong
2024TSC / CCF-A

QoS Aware Virtual Network Embedding in Space-Air-Ground-Ocean Integrated Network
Yi Zhang, Peiying Zhang, Chunxiao Jiang, Shangguang Wang, Hongxia Zhang, Chunming Rong
2024IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Resource Management From Single-Domain 5G to End-to-End 6G Network Slicing: A Survey
Sina Ebrahimi, Faouzi Bouali, Olivier C. L. Haas
2024JSAC / CCF-A

Safe and Accelerated Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based O-RAN Slicing: A Hybrid Transfer Learning Approach
Ahmad M. Nagib, Hatem Abou-Zeid, Hossam S. Hassanein
2024TON / CCF-A

Self-Learning Multi-Mode Slicing Mechanism for Dynamic Network Architectures
Haitham H. Esmat, Beatriz Lorenzo
2024TMC / CCF-A

Slice Sandwich: Jagged Slicing Multi-Tier Dynamic Resources for Diversified V2X Services
Yu Liu, Zirui Zhuang, Qi Qi, Jingyu Wang, Dezhi Chen, Lu Lu, Hongwei Yang, Jianxin Liao, Zhu Han
2024TON / CCF-A

State Disaggregation for Dynamic Scaling of Network Functions
Fabrício B. Carvalho, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Ítalo Cunha, Marcos A. M. Vieira, Murali K. Ramanathan
2024TSC / CCF-A

Traffic Prediction-Based VNF Auto-Scaling and Deployment Mechanism for Flexible and Elastic Service Provision
Bo Yi, Jiacheng Wang, Qiang He, Xingwei Wang, Min Huang, Sajal K. Das, Keqin Li
2024JSAC / CCF-A

Traffic-Aware Lightweight Hierarchical Offloading Toward Adaptive Slicing-Enabled SAGIN
Zheyi Chen, Junjie Zhang, Geyong Min, Zhaolong Ning, Jie Li
2024INFOCOM / CCF-A

Train Once Apply Anywhere: Effective Scheduling for Network Function Chains Running on FUMES
Marcel Blöcher, Nils Nedderhut, Pavel Chuprikov, Ramin Khalili, Patrick Eugster, Lin Wang
2024INFOCOM / CCF-A

YinYangRAN: Resource Multiplexing in GPU-Accelerated Virtualized RANs
Leonardo Lo Schiavo, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Fiore, Xavier Costa-Perez

2023

2023TSC / CCF-A

A Latency-Driven Availability Assessment for Multi-Tenant Service Chains
Luigi De Simone, Mario Di Mauro, Roberto Natella, Fabio Postiglione
2023TON / CCF-A

Achieving High Availability in Inter-DC WAN Traffic Engineering
Han Zhang, Xia Yin, Xingang Shi, Jilong Wang, Zhiliang Wang, Yingya Guo, Tian Lan, Yahui Li, Yongqing Zhu, Ke Ruan, Haijun Geng
2023INFOCOM / CCF-A

Ant Colony based Online Learning Algorithm for Service Function Chain Deployment
Yingling Mao, Xiaojun Shang, Yuanyuan Yang
2023SIGCOMM / CCF-A

ClickINC: In-network Computing as a Service in Heterogeneous Programmable Data-center Networks
Wenquan Xu, Zijian Zhang, Yong Feng, Haoyu Song, Zhikang Chen, Wenfei Wu, Guyue Liu, Yinchao Zhang, Shuxin Liu, Zerui Tian, Bin Liu
2023INFOCOM / CCF-A

COIN: Cost-Efficient Traffic Engineering with Various Pricing Schemes in Clouds
Gongming Zhao, Jingzhou Wang, Hongli Xu, Zhuolong Yu, Chunming Qiao
2023TMC / CCF-A

Collaborative Orchestration of Multi-Domain Edges From a Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) Perspective
Nina Slamnik-Kriještorac, Girma M. Yilma, Marco Liebsch, F. Zarrar Yousaf, Johann M. Marquez-Barja
2023TSC / CCF-A

Compiling Service Function Chains via Fine-Grained Composition in the Programmable Data Plane
Xiaoquan Zhang, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Weijia Jia
2023TMC / CCF-A

Consortium Blockchain-Based Spectrum Trading for Network Slicing in 5G RAN: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Gordon Owusu Boateng, Guolin Sun, Daniel Ayepah Mensah, Daniel Mawunyo Doe, Ruijie Ou, Guisong Liu
2023TON / CCF-A

Constrained Network Slicing Games: Achieving Service Guarantees and Network Efficiency
Jiaxiao Zheng, Albert Banchs, Gustavo de Veciana
2023TSC / CCF-A

Dapper: Deploying Service Function Chains in the Programmable Data Plane Via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Xiaoquan Zhang, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Zhetao Li, Weijia Jia
2023TON / CCF-A

EdgeBOL: A Bayesian Learning Approach for the Joint Orchestration of vRANs and Mobile Edge AI
Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez, George Iosifidis
2023TSC / CCF-A

Energy-Aware Service Function Chaining Embedding in NFV Networks
Rongping Lin, Liu He, Shan Luo, Moshe Zukerman
2023TON / CCF-A

Exploring the Impact of Critical Programmability on Controller Placement for Software-Defined Wide Area Networks
Songshi Dou, Li Qi, Chao Yao, Zehua Guo
2023TON / CCF-A

FlexDATE: Flexible and Disturbance-Aware Traffic Engineering With Reinforcement Learning in Software-Defined Networks
Minghao Ye, Junjie Zhang, Zehua Guo, H. Jonathan Chao
2023TSC / CCF-A

Flexible Offloading of Service Function Chains to Programmable Switches
Junte Ma, Sihao Xie, Jin Zhao
2023TMC / CCF-A

In-network Placement of Reusable Computing Tasks in an SDN-based Network Edge
Marica Amadeo, Claudia Campolo, Gianmarco Lia, Antonella Molinaro, Giuseppe Ruggeri
2023TSC / CCF-A

Intelligent and Collaborative Orchestration of Network Slices
Ying Wang, Naling Li, Peng Yu, Wenjing Li, Xuesong Qiu, Shangguang Wang, Mohamed Cheriet
2023TON / CCF-A

MiFi: Bounded Update to Optimize Network Performance in Software-Defined Data Centers
Akbar Majidi, Xiaofeng Gao, Shunjia Zhu, Nazila Jahanbakhsh, Jiaqi Zheng, Guihai Chen
2023TPDS / CCF-A

Multi-SP Network Slicing Parallel Relieving Edge Network Conflict
Rongxin Han, Dezhi Chen, Song Guo, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Lu Lu, Jianxin Liao
2023INFOCOM / CCF-A

Network Slicing: Market Mechanism and Competitive Equilibria
Panagiotis Promponas, Leandros Tassiulas
2023INFOCOM / CCF-A

Nimble: Fast and Safe Migration of Network Functions
Sheng Liu, Michael K. Reiter, Theophilus A. Benson
2023TMC / CCF-A

Online Control of Service Function Chainings Across Geo-Distributed Datacenters
Song Yang, Fan Li, Zhi Zhou, Xu Chen, Yu Wang, Xiaoming Fu
2023TON / CCF-A

Online Learning for Failure-Aware Edge Backup of Service Function Chains With the Minimum Latency
Chen Wang, Qin Hu, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng
2023TMC / CCF-A

Optimized Controller Provisioning in Software-Defined LEO Satellite Networks
Xu Li, Feilong Tang, Luoyi Fu, Jiadi Yu, Long Chen, Jiacheng Liu, Yanmin Zhu, Laurence T. Yang
2023TMC / CCF-A

Orchestrating Energy-Efficient vRANs: Bayesian Learning and Experimental Results
Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez, George Iosifidis
2023SIGCOMM / CCF-A

PAINTER: Ingress Traffic Engineering and Routing for Enterprise Cloud Networks
Thomas Koch, Shuyue Yu, Sharad Agarwal, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Ryan Beckett
2023TON / CCF-A

Performance Tuning via Lean Measurements for Acceleration of Network Functions Virtualization
Qiang Wu, Xiangping Bryce Zhai, Xi Liu, Chun-Ming Wu, Fangliang Lou, Hongke Zhang
2023TMC / CCF-A

Placement and Allocation of Virtual Network Functions: Multi-dimensional Case
Gamal Sallam, Zizhan Zheng, Bo Ji
2023TMC / CCF-A

PlaceRAN: Optimal Placement of Virtualized Network Functions in Beyond 5G Radio Access Networks
Fernando Zanferrari Morais, Gabriel Matheus F. de Almeida, Leizer Pinto, Kleber Vieira Cardoso, Luis M. Contreras, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Cristiano Bonato Both
2023INFOCOM / CCF-A

RED: Distributed Program Deployment for Resource-aware Programmable Switches
Xingxin Jia, Fuliang Li, Songlin Chen, Chengxi Gao, Pengfei Wang, Xingwei Wang
2023TMC / CCF-A

Reliable Dynamic Service Chain Scheduling in 5G Networks
Lei Yang, Junzhong Jia, Hongcai Lin, Jiannong Cao
2023TPDS / CCF-A

Revenue Maximizing Online Service Function Chain Deployment in Multi-Tier Computing Network
Haolin Liu, Saiqin Long, Zhetao Li, Yu Fu, Yong Zuo, Xinglin Zhang
2023TSC / CCF-A

RQAP: Resource and QoS Aware Placement of Service Function Chains in NFV-Enabled Networks
Haojun Huang, Jialin Tian, Hao Yin, Geyong Min, Dapeng Wu, Wang Miao
2023TSC / CCF-A

RuleDRL: Reliability-Aware SFC Provisioning With Bounded Approximations in Dynamic Environments
Yue Zeng, Zhihao Qu, Song Guo, Bin Tang, Baoliu Ye, Jing Li, Jie Zhang
2023TON / CCF-A

SAFE: Service Availability via Failure Elimination Through VNF Scaling
Rui Xia, Haipeng Dai, Jiaqi Zheng, Rong Gu, Xiaoyu Wang, Weijun Wang, Guihai Chen
2023TON / CCF-A

Scheduling Slice Requests in 5G Networks
Reshma Prasad, Albert Sunny
2023INFOCOM / CCF-A

SEM-O-RAN: Semantic and Flexible O-RAN Slicing for NextG Edge-Assisted Mobile Systems
Corrado Puligheddu, Jonathan Ashdown, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Restuccia
2023TON / CCF-A

SFT-Box: An Online Approach for Minimizing the Embedding Cost of Multiple Hybrid SFCs
Xu Lin, Deke Guo, Yulong Shen, Guoming Tang, Bangbang Ren, Ming Xu
2023JSAC / CCF-A

Space Information Network With Joint Virtual Network Function Deployment and Flow Routing Strategy With QoS Constraints
Huiting Yang, Wei Liu, Jiandong Li, Tony Q. S. Quek
2023TON / CCF-A

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cross-Slice Federated Meta Learning for Resource Orchestration to Cold-Start Slice
Tianjian Dong, Qi Qi, Jingyu Wang, Zirui Zhuang, Haifeng Sun, Jianxin Liao, Zhu Han
2023SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Teal: Learning-Accelerated Optimization of WAN Traffic Engineering
Zhiying Xu, Francis Y. Yan, Rachee Singh, Justin T. Chiu, Alexander M. Rush, Minlan Yu
2023TON / CCF-A

Toward Flexible and Predictable Path Programmability Recovery Under Multiple Controller Failures in Software-Defined WANs
Zehua Guo, Songshi Dou, Wenfei Wu, Yuanqing Xia
2023TON / CCF-A

Using Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Resource Orchestration in a Network Slicing Scenario
Federico Mason, Gianfranco Nencioni, Andrea Zanella
2023TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

VNF and CNF Placement in 5G: Recent Advances and Future Trends
Wissal Attaoui, Essaid Sabir, Halima Elbiaze, Mohsen Guizani

2022

2022IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

A Survey of Intelligent Network Slicing Management for Industrial IoT: Integrated Approaches for Smart Transportation, Smart Energy, and Smart Factory
Yulei Wu, Hong-Ning Dai, Haozhe Wang, Zehui Xiong, Song Guo
2022TMC / CCF-A

An Agile and Distributed Mechanism for Inter-Domain Network Slicing in Next Generation Mobile Networks
Jalal Khamse-Ashari, Gamini Senarath, Irem Bor-Yaliniz, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022TON / CCF-A

CoShare: An Efficient Approach for Redundancy Allocation in NFV
Yordanos Tibebu Woldeyohannes, Besmir Tola, Yuming Jiang, K. K. Ramakrishnan
2022TMC / CCF-A

Delay and Reliability-Constrained VNF Placement on Mobile and Volatile 5G Infrastructure
Balázs Németh, Nuria Molner, Jorge Martín-Pérez, Carlos J. Bernardos, Antonio de la Oliva, Balázs Sonkoly
2022TIFS / CCF-A

Dynamic Network Security Function Enforcement via Joint Flow and Function Scheduling
Qi Li, Xinhao Deng, Zhuotao Liu, Yuan Yang, Xiaoyue Zou, Qian Wang, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu
2022TC / CCF-A

Endogenous Trusted DRL-Based Service Function Chain Orchestration for IoT
Shaoyong Guo, Yuanyuan Qi, Yi Jin, Wenjing Li, Xuesong Qiu, Luoming Meng
2022TSC / CCF-A

Energy and Cost Efficient Resource Allocation for Blockchain-Enabled NFV
Shiva Kazemi Taskou, Mehdi Rasti, Pedro H. J. Nardelli
2022TMC / CCF-A

Federated Multi-Discriminator BiWGAN-GP Based Collaborative Anomaly Detection for Virtualized Network Slicing
Weili Wang, Chengchao Liang, Lun Tang, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Qianbin Chen
2022TON / CCF-A

KPI Guarantees in Network Slicing
Jorge Martín-Pérez, Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Milan Groshev, Carlos J. Bernardos
2022TMC / CCF-A

Latency and Mobility-Aware Service Function Chain Placement in 5G Networks
Davit Harutyunyan, Nashid Shahriar, Raouf Boutaba, Roberto Riggio
2022TWC / CCF-B

Maximum Flow Routing Strategy for Space Information Network With Service Function Constraints
Huiting Yang, Wei Liu, Hongyan Li, Jiandong Li
2022CN / CCF-B

Monkey Business: Reinforcement learning meets neighborhood search for Virtual Network Embedding
Maxime Elkael, Massinissa Ait Aba, Andrea Araldo, Hind Castel, Badii Jouaber
2022TC / CCF-A

Multi-Resource VNF Deployment in a Heterogeneous Cloud
Jiaqi Zheng, Zixuan Zhang, Qiufang Ma, Xiaofeng Gao, Chen Tian, Guihai Chen
2022TCOM / CCF-B

Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cost- and Delay-Sensitive Virtual Network Function Placement and Routing
Shaoyang Wang, Chau Yuen, Wei Ni, Yong Liang Guan, Tiejun Lv
2022TON / CCF-A

Near Optimal Learning-Driven Mechanisms for Stable NFV Markets in Multitier Cloud Networks
Zichuan Xu, Haozhe Ren, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Wanlei Zhou, Pan Zhou, Wenzheng Xu, Guowei Wu, Mingchu Li
2022TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Network Services Anomalies in NFV: Survey, Taxonomy, and Verification Methods
Moubarak Zoure, Toufik Ahmed, Laurent Réveillére
2022TWC / CCF-B

ONETS: Online Network Slice Broker From Theory to Practice
Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Lanfranco Zanzi, Xavier Costa-Pérez, Antonio Capone
2022TWC / CCF-B

Online Reliability-Enhanced Virtual Network Services Provisioning in Fault-Prone Mobile Edge Cloud
Yu Qiu, Junbin Liang, Victor C. M. Leung, Xu Wu, Xia Deng
2022TC / CCF-A

Online Service Function Chain Placement for Cost-effectiveness and Network Congestion Control
Xiaojun Shang, Zhenhua Liu, Yuanyuan Yang
2022TPDS / CCF-A

Optimal Embedding of Aggregated Service Function Tree
Deke Guo, Bangbang Ren, Guoming Tang, Lailong Luo, Tao Chen, Xiaoming Fu
2022TMC / CCF-A

Pricing and Resource Allocation Optimization for IoT Fog Computing and NFV: An EPEC and Matching Based Perspective
Neetu Raveendran, Huaqing Zhang, Lingyang Song, Li-Chun Wang, Choong Seon Hong, Zhu Han
2022IoTJ / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Profit-aware Edge Server Placement
Yuanzhe Li, Ao Zhou, Xiao Ma, Shangguang Wang
2022TMC / CCF-A

QoS and Resource-Aware Security Orchestration and Life Cycle Management
Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Jorge Bernal Bernabe, Antonio Skarmeta
2022TMC / CCF-A

Reducing the Service Function Chain Backup Cost Over the Edge and Cloud by a Self-Adapting Scheme
Xiaojun Shang, Yaodong Huang, Zhenhua Liu, Yuanyuan Yang
2022TMC / CCF-A

Request Reliability Augmentation with Service Function Chain Requirements in Mobile Edge Computing
Weifa Liang, Yu Ma, Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, Xiaohua Jia, Wanlei Zhou
2022TMC / CCF-A

Revenue-Optimal Auction for Resource Allocation in Wireless Virtualization: A Deep Learning Approach
Kun Zhu, Yuanyuan Xu, Qian Jun, Dusit Niyato
2022TON / CCF-A

SAFE-ME: Scalable and Flexible Policy Enforcement in Middlebox Networks
Hongli Xu, Peng Xi, Gongming Zhao, Jianchun Liu, Chen Qian, Liusheng Huang
2022TON / CCF-A

SDNShield: NFV-Based Defense Framework Against DDoS Attacks on SDN Control Plane
Kuan-Yin Chen, Sen Liu, Yang Xu, Ishant Kumar Siddhrau, Siyu Zhou, Zehua Guo, H. Jonathan Chao
2022IoTJ / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Slicing-based Reliable Resource Orchestration for Secure Software Defined Edge-Cloud Computing Systems
Jianhang Tang, Jiangtian Nie, Zehui Xiong, Jun Zhao, Yang Zhang, Dusit Niyato
2022IoTJ / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Software-defined Internet of Multimedia Things: Energy-efficient and Load-balanced Resource Management
Ahmadreza Montazerolghaem
2022TITS / CCF-B

Space-Air-Ground Integrated Multi-Domain Network Resource Orchestration Based on Virtual Network Architecture: A DRL Method
Peiying Zhang, Chao Wang, Neeraj Kumar, Lei Liu
2022TWC / CCF-B

Toward Enabling Network Slice Mobility to Support 6G System
Miloud Bagaa, Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra, Tarik Taleb, Hannu Flinck
2022TMC / CCF-A

vrAIn: Deep Learning Based Orchestration for Computing and Radio Resources in vRANs
Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Gramaglia, Xavier Costa-Pérez, Albert Banchs, Juan J. Alcaraz

2021

2021CN / CCF-B

A novel evaluation function for higher acceptance rates and more profitable metaheuristic-based online virtual network embedding
Christian Aguilar-Fuster, Javier Rubio-Loyola
2021TPDS / CCF-A

A Scalable Stateful Approach for Virtual Security Functions Orchestration
Niloofar Moradi, Alireza Shameli-Sendi, Alireza Khajouei
2021TPDS / CCF-A

A Survey of Network Virtualization Techniques for Internet of Things Using SDN and NFV
Iqbal Alam, Kashif Sharif, Fan Li, Zohaib Latif, M. M. Karim, Sujit Biswas, Boubakr Nour, Yu Wang
2021IWQoS / CCF-B

A-DDPG: Attention Mechanism-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for NFV
Nan He, Song Yang, Fan Li, Stojan Trajanovski, Fernando A. Kuipers, Xiaoming Fu
2021ICWS / CCF-B

An Efficient Algorithm for Service Function Chains Reconfiguration in Mobile Edge Cloud Networks
Biyi Li, Bo Cheng, Junliang Chen
2021ICASSP / CCF-B

An Efficient Linear Programming Rounding-and-Refinement Algorithm for Large-Scale Network Slicing Problem
Wei-Kun Chen, Ya-Feng Liu, Yu-Hong Dai, Zhi-Quan Luo
2021SOSP / CCF-A

Automated SmartNIC Offloading Insights for Network Functions
Yiming Qiu, Jiarong Xing, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, Srinivas Narayana, Ang Chen
2021SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Bento: safely bringing network function virtualization to Tor
Michael Reininger, Arushi Arora, Stephen Herwig, Nicholas Francino, Jayson Hurst, Christina Garman, Dave Levin
2021TON / CCF-A

Combined Stateful Classification and Session Splicing for High-Speed NFV Service Chaining
Tom Barbette, Cyril Soldani, Laurent Mathy
2021TON / CCF-A

Coordinated 5G Network Slicing: How Constructive Interference Can Boost Network Throughput
Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati, Francesco Restuccia, Tommaso Melodia
2021TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

DDQP: A Double Deep Q-Learning Approach to Online Fault-Tolerant SFC Placement
Lei Wang, Weixi Mao, Jin Zhao, Yuedong Xu
2021TMC / CCF-A

Delay-Aware Virtual Network Function Placement and Routing in Edge Clouds
Song Yang, Fan Li, Stojan Trajanovski, Xu Chen, Yu Wang, Xiaoming Fu
2021TSMC / CCF-B; JCR-Q1

Distributed Virtual Network Embedding System With Historical Archives and Set-Based Particle Swarm Optimization
An Song, Wei-Neng Chen, Tianlong Gu, Huaqiang Yuan, Sam Kwong, Jun Zhang
2021INFOCOM / CCF-A

DRL-OR: Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Online Routing for Multi-type Service Requirements
Chenyi Liu, Mingwei Xu, Yuan Yang, Nan Geng
2021ICC / CCF-C

DRL-SFCP: Adaptive Service Function Chains Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tianfu Wang, Qilin Fan, Xiuhua Li, Xu Zhang, Qingyu Xiong, Shu Fu, Min Gao
2021TII / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Dynamic Network Function Provisioning to Enable Network in Box for Industrial Applications
Gang Sun, Zhu Xu, Hongfang Yu, Victor Chang
2021CN / CCF-B

Dynamic VNF Placement, Resource Allocation and Traffic Routing in 5G
Morteza Golkarifard, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino, Ali Movaghar
2021TPDS / CCF-A

Efficient Virtual Network Embedding of Cloud-Based Data Center Networks into Optical Networks
Weibei Fan, Fu Xiao, Xiaobai Chen, Lei Cui, Shui Yu
2021arXiv

End-to-End Delay Guaranteed SFC Deployment: A Multi-level Mapping Approach
Fatemeh Yaghoubpour, Bahador Bakhshi, Fateme Seifi
2021IoTJ / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Energy-Aware Service Function Chain Embedding in Edge–Cloud Environments for IoT Applications
Nguyen Huu Thanh, Nguyen Trung Kien, Ngo Van Hoa, Truong Thu Huong, Florian Wamser, Tobias Hossfeld
2021IWQoS / CCF-B

FlexNF: Flexible Network Function Orchestration on the Programmable Data Plane
Hanyu Zhao, Qing Li, Jingpu Duan, Yong Jiang, Kai Liu
2021arXiv

Graph-based Deep Learning for Communication Networks: A Survey
Weiwei Jiang
2021IEEE Communications Magazine / JCR-Q1

HASFC: A MANO-Compliant Framework for Availability Management of Service Chains
Mario Di Mauro, Giovanni Galatro, Maurizio Longo, Fabio Postiglione, Marco Tambasco
2021JSAC / CCF-A

Highly-Efficient Switch Migration for Controller Load Balancing in Elastic Optical Inter-Datacenter Networks
Yong Liu, Huaxi Gu, Fulong Yan, Nicola Calabretta
2021TON / CCF-A

Incremental Server Deployment for Software-Defined NFV-Enabled Networks
Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu, Gongming Zhao, Chen Qian, Xingpeng Fan, Xuwei Yang, He Huang
2021TON / CCF-A

Joint Placement and Allocation of VNF Nodes With Budget and Capacity Constraints
Gamal Sallam, Bo Ji
2021TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Joint Resource Optimization and Delay-aware Virtual Network Function Migration in Data Center Networks
Biyi Li, Bo Cheng, Xuan Liu, Meng Wang, Yi Yue, Junliang Chen
2021TPDS / CCF-A

Joint SFC Deployment and Resource Management in Heterogeneous Edge for Latency Minimization
Yu Liu, Xiaojun Shang, Yuanyuan Yang
2021IoTJ / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Joint Virtual Network Topology Design and Embedding for Cybertwin-Enabled 6G Core Networks
Junling Li, Weisen Shi, Qiang Ye, Shan Zhang, Weihua Zhuang, Xuemin Shen
2021TWC / CCF-B

LACO: A Latency-Driven Network Slicing Orchestration in Beyond-5G Networks
Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Hans Dieter Schotten, Xavier Costa-Pérez
2021JSAC / CCF-A

Latency-Sensitive Edge/Cloud Serverless Dynamic Deployment Over Telemetry-Based Packet-Optical Network
István Pelle, Francesco Paolucci, Balázs Sonkoly, Filippo Cugini
2021arXiv

Learning based E2E Energy Efficient in Joint Radio and NFV Resource Allocation for 5G and Beyond Networks
Narges Gholipoor, Ali Nouruzi, Shima Salarhosseini, Mohammad Reza Javan, Nader Mokari, Eduard A. Jorswieck
2021IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Leveraging Deep Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Engineering: A Survey
Yang Xiao, Jun Liu, Jiawei Wu, Nirwan Ansari
2021TDSC / CCF-A

Leveraging Network Functions Virtualization Orchestrators to Achieve Software-Defined Access Control in the Clouds
Montida Pattaranantakul, Ruan He, Zonghua Zhang, Ahmed Meddahi, Ping Wang
2021SECON / CCF-B

Log Management in NFV Service Orchestration
Engin Zeydan, Jorge Baranda, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, Ricardo Martínez, Luca Vettori
2021CN / CCF-B

On Cross-domain Service Function Chain orchestration: An architectural framework
Nassima Toumi, Olivier Bernier, Djamal-Eddine Meddour, Adlen Ksentini
2021TPDS / CCF-A

On the Effective Parallelization and Near-Optimal Deployment of Service Function Chains
Jianzhen Luo, Jun Li, Lei Jiao, Jun Cai
2021TON / CCF-A

Online Adaptive Interference-Aware VNF Deployment and Migration for 5G Network Slice
Qixia Zhang, Fangming Liu, Chaobing Zeng
2021SPAA / CCF-B

Optimal Virtual Network Embeddings for Tree Topologies
Aleksander Figiel, Leon Kellerhals, Rolf Niedermeier, Matthias Rost, Stefan Schmid, Philipp Zschoche
2021TMC / CCF-A

Performance Modeling of Softwarized Network Services Based on Queuing Theory With Experimental Validation
Jonathan Prados-Garzon, Pablo Ameigeiras, Juan J. Ramos-Munoz, Jorge Navarro-Ortiz, Pilar Andres-Maldonado, Juan M. Lopez-Soler
2021TON / CCF-A

Prioritized Deployment of Dynamic Service Function Chains
Behrooz Farkiani, Bahador Bakhshi, S. Ali MirHassani, Tim Wauters, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck
2021TON / CCF-A

Real-Time Update of Joint SFC and Routing in Software Defined Networks
Xingpeng Fan, Hongli Xu, He Huang, Xuwei Yang
2021TPDS / CCF-A

Recent Advances of Resource Allocation in Network Function Virtualization
Song Yang, Fan Li, Stojan Trajanovski, Ramin Yahyapour, Xiaoming Fu
2021INFOCOM / CCF-A

Reliability-aware Dynamic Service Chain Scheduling in 5G Networks based on Reinforcement Learning
Junzhong Jia, Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao
2021TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Reliable Placement of Service Function Chains and Virtual Monitoring Functions With Minimal Cost in Softwarized 5G Networks
Prabhu Kaliyammal Thiruvasagam, Abhishek Chakraborty, Abin Mathew, C. Siva Ram Murthy
2021JSAC / CCF-A

Scalable Orchestration of Service Function Chains in NFV-Enabled Networks: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Approach
Haojun Huang, Cheng Zeng, Yangmin Zhao, Geyong Min, Yingying Zhu, Wang Miao, Jia Hu
2021IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Segment Routing: A Comprehensive Survey of Research Activities, Standardization Efforts, and Implementation Results
Pier Luigi Ventre, Stefano Salsano, Marco Polverini, Antonio Cianfrani, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo, Francois Clad
2021arXiv

Service Function Chaining in MEC: A Mean-Field Game and Reinforcement Learning Approach
Amine Abouaomar, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Zoubeir Mlika, Abdellatif Kobbane
2021TON / CCF-A

Service Placement and Request Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications in Edge Clouds
Vajiheh Farhadi, Fidan Mehmeti, Ting He, Thomas F. La Porta, Hana Khamfroush, Shiqiang Wang, Kevin S. Chan, Konstantinos Poularakis
2021TPDS / CCF-A

Sova: A Software-Defined Autonomic Framework for Virtual Network Allocations
Zhiyong Ye, Yang Wang, Shuibing He, Chengzhong Xu, Xian-He Sun
2021IEEE Network / JCR-Q1

Toward a Real Deployment of Network Services Orchestration and Configuration Convergence Framework for 5G Network Slices
Ibrahim Afolabi, Miloud Bagaa, Walid Boumezer, Tarik Taleb
2021TON / CCF-A

Toward Optimal Partial Parallelization for Service Function Chaining
I-Chieh Lin, Yu-Hsuan Yeh, Kate Ching-Ju Lin
2021IWQoS / CCF-B

Towards Chain-Aware Scaling Detection in NFV with Reinforcement Learning
Lin He, Lishan Li, Ying Liu
2021IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Towards Low-Latency Service Delivery in a Continuum of Virtual Resources: State-of-the-Art and Research Directions
Jose Santos, Tim Wauters, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck
2021INFOCOM / CCF-A

Towards Real-Time Routing Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Open Challenges
Paul Almasan, José Suárez-Varela, Bo Wu, Shihan Xiao, Pere Barlet-Ros, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio
2021TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Virtual Network Function Allocation in Service Function Chains Using Backups With Availability Schedule
Rui Kang, Fujun He, Eiji Oki
2021TWC / CCF-B

VNF-Based Service Provision in Software Defined LEO Satellite Networks
Ziye Jia, Min Sheng, Jiandong Li, Di Zhou, Zhu Han
2021TON / CCF-A

vSFC: Generic and Agile Verification of Service Function Chains in the Cloud
Xiaoli Zhang, Qi Li, Zeyu Zhang, Jianping Wu, Jiahai Yang
2021arXiv

When SRv6 meets 5G Core: Implementation and Deployment of a Network Service Chaining Function in SmartNICs
Guilherme Matos, Fabio Luciano Verdi, Luis Miguel Contreras, Leandro C. de Almeida

2020

2020CN / CCF-B

5G network slicing using SDN and NFV: A survey of taxonomy, architectures and future challenges
Alcardo Alex Barakabitze, Arslan Ahmad, Rashid Mijumbi, Andrew Hines
2020ICNP / CCF-B

A Constrained Reinforcement Learning Based Approach for Network Slicing
Yongshuai Liu, Jiaxin Ding, Xin Liu
2020TNSE / JCR-Q1

A Constructive Particle Swarm Optimizer for Virtual Network Embedding
An Song, Wei-Neng Chen, Tianlong Gu, Huaxiang Zhang, Jun Zhang
2020TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

A Continuous-Decision Virtual Network Embedding Scheme Relying on Reinforcement Learning
Haipeng Yao, Sihan Ma, Jingjing Wang, Peiying Zhang, Chunxiao Jiang, Song Guo
2020TON / CCF-A

A Coverage-Aware Resource Provisioning Method for Network Slicing
Quang-Trung Luu, Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Alexandre Mouradian, Michel Kieffer
2020TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

A Dynamic and Collaborative Multi-Layer Virtual Network Embedding Algorithm in SDN Based on Reinforcement Learning
Meilian Lu, Yun Gu, Dongliang Xie
2020JSAC / CCF-A

A Dynamic Reliability-Aware Service Placement for Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
Mohammad Karimzadeh-Farshbafan, Vahid Shah-Mansouri, Dusit Niyato
2020ICNP / CCF-B

A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Perspective on Distributed Traffic Engineering
Nan Geng, Tian Lan, Vaneet Aggarwal, Yuan Yang, Mingwei Xu
2020ICWS / CCF-B

A Multi-Stage Approach for Virtual Network Function Migration and Service Function Chain Reconfiguration in NFV-enabled Networks
Biyi Li, Bo Cheng, Junliang Chen
2020MobiCom / CCF-A

A seamless virtualized network functions migration mechanism in mobile edge networks
Biyi Li, Bo Cheng, Yi Yue, Meng Wang, Junliang Chen
2020JSAC / CCF-A

A Virtual Network Customization Framework for Multicast Services in NFV-Enabled Core Networks
Omar Alhussein, Phu Thinh Do, Qiang Ye, Junling Li, Weisen Shi, Weihua Zhuang, Xuemin Shen, Xu Li, Jaya Rao
2020TON / CCF-A

An Online Algorithm for VNF Service Chain Scaling in Datacenters
Ziyue Luo, Chuan Wu
2020MobiHoc / CCF-B

Approximation algorithms for data-intensive service chain embedding
Konstantinos Poularakis, Jaime Llorca, Antonia M. Tulino, Leandros Tassiulas
2020JSAC / CCF-A

Automatic Virtual Network Embedding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach With Graph Convolutional Networks
Zhongxia Yan, Jingguo Ge, Yulei Wu, Liangxiong Li, Tong Li
2020TMC / CCF-A

Clustered Virtualized Network Functions Resource Allocation based on Context-Aware Grouping in 5G Edge Networks
Sooeun Song, Changsung Lee, Hyoungjun Cho, Goeun Lim, Jong-Moon Chung
2020TON / CCF-A

Congestion Minimization for Service Chain Routing Problems With Path Length Considerations
Lingnan Gao, George N. Rouskas
2020TON / CCF-A

Congestion-Aware and Energy-Aware Virtual Network Embedding
Minh Pham, Doan B. Hoang, Zenon Chaczko
2020SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Contention-Aware Performance Prediction For Virtualized Network Functions
Antonis Manousis, Rahul Anand Sharma, Vyas Sekar, Justine Sherry
2020TCOM / CCF-B

Cost-Efficient VNF Placement and Scheduling in Public Cloud Networks
Tao Gao, Xin Li, Yu Wu, Weixia Zou, Shanguo Huang, Massimo Tornatore, Biswanath Mukherjee
2020TMC / CCF-A

Dynamic Resource Provisioning of a Scalable E2E Network Slicing Orchestration System
Ibrahim Afolabi, Jonathan Prados-Garzon, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Pablo Ameigeiras
2020TWC / CCF-B

Dynamic Service Function Chain Embedding for NFV-Enabled IoT: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Xiaoyuan Fu, F. Richard Yu, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Jianxin Liao
2020TPDS / CCF-A

Efficient Algorithms for Delay-Aware NFV-Enabled Multicasting in Mobile Edge Clouds With Resource Sharing
Haozhe Ren, Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Pan Zhou, Omer F. Rana, Alex Galis, Guowei Wu
2020CN / CCF-B

End-to-end network slicing for future wireless in multi-region cloud platforms
Simona Marinova, Thomas Lin, Hadi Bannazadeh, Alberto Leon-Garcia
2020SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Fault Tolerant Service Function Chaining
Milad Ghaznavi, Elaheh Jalalpour, Bernard Wong, Raouf Boutaba, Ali José Mashtizadeh
2020IWQoS / CCF-B

Finedge: A Dynamic Cost-Efficient Edge Resource Management Platform for NFV Network
Miao Li, Qixia Zhang, Fangming Liu
2020JSAC / CCF-A

Intelligent VNF Orchestration and Flow Scheduling via Model-Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning
Lin Gu, Deze Zeng, Wei Li, Song Guo, Albert Y. Zomaya, Hai Jin
2020ICWS / CCF-B

Joint Availability- and Traffic-aware Placement of Parallelized Service Chain in NFV-enabled Data Center
Meng Wang, Bo Cheng, Junliang Chen
2020ICASSP / CCF-B

Joint Resource Allocation and Routing for Service Function Chaining with In-Subnetwork Processing
Navid Reyhanian, Hamid Farmanbar, Soheil Mohajer, Zhi-Quan Luo
2020INFOCOM / CCF-A

Latency-aware VNF Chain Deployment with Efficient Resource Reuse at Network Edge
Panpan Jin, Xincai Fei, Qixia Zhang, Fangming Liu, Bo Li
2020TON / CCF-A

Looking Glass of NFV: Inferring the Structure and State of NFV Network From External Observations
Yilei Lin, Ting He, Shiqiang Wang, Kevin Chan, Stephen Pasteris
2020JSAC / CCF-A

Management and Orchestration of Virtual Network Functions via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Joan S. Pujol Roig, David M. Gutierrez-Estevez, Deniz Gündüz
2020TMC / CCF-A

Mobility-Aware and Delay-Sensitive Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge-Cloud Networks
Yu Ma, Weifa Liang, Jing Li, Xiaohua Jia, Song Guo
2020TWC / CCF-B

Multiservice-Based Network Slicing Orchestration With Impatient Tenants
Bin Han, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Pérez, Di Feng, Hans D. Schotten
2020JSAC / CCF-A

MUVINE: Multi-Stage Virtual Network Embedding in Cloud Data Centers Using Reinforcement Learning-Based Predictions
Hiren Kumar Thakkar, Chinmaya Kumar Dehury, Prasan Kumar Sahoo
2020TON / CCF-A

NFVnice: Dynamic Backpressure and Scheduling for NFV Service Chains
Sameer G. Kulkarni, Wei Zhang, Jinho Hwang, Shriram Rajagopalan, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Timothy Wood, Mayutan Arumaithurai, Xiaoming Fu
2020IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

On Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in Shared RANs: Survey and Qualitative Analysis
Fatma Marzouk, Joao Paulo Barraca, Ayman Radwan
2020TON / CCF-A

On Parallel and Hitless vSDN Reconfiguration
Sicheng Zhao, Xing Wu, Zuqing Zhu
2020TWC / CCF-B

On SDN-Driven Network Optimization and QoS Aware Routing Using Multiple Paths
Miloud Bagaa, Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra, Tarik Taleb, Konstantinos Samdanis
2020TON / CCF-A

On the Hardness and Inapproximability of Virtual Network Embeddings
Matthias Rost, Stefan Schmid
2020TWC / CCF-B

Optimal Virtual Network Function Deployment for 5G Network Slicing in a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Antonio De Domenico, Ya-Feng Liu, Wei Yu
2020JSAC / CCF-A

Optimal VNF Placement via Deep Reinforcement Learning in SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks
Jianing Pei, Peilin Hong, Miao Pan, Jiangqing Liu, Jingsong Zhou
2020TMC / CCF-A

Optimization Model for Cross-Domain Network Slices in 5G Networks
Rami Akrem Addad, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra, Hannu Flinck
2020TC / CCF-A

Prune and Plant: Efficient Placement and Parallelism of Virtual Network Functions
Wei Bao, Dong Yuan, Bing Bing Zhou, Albert Y. Zomaya
2020CN / CCF-B

pSMART: A lightweight, privacy-aware service function chain orchestration in multi-domain NFV/SDN
Kalpana D. Joshi, Kotaro Kataoka
2020TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Reliability Aware Service Placement Using a Viterbi-Based Algorithm
Mohammad Karimzadeh-Farshbafan, Vahid Shah-Mansouri, Dusit Niyato
2020TON / CCF-A

Reliability-Aware Virtualized Network Function Services Provisioning in Mobile Edge Computing
Meitian Huang, Weifa Liang, Xiaojun Shen, Yu Ma, Haibin Kan
2020Proc. IEEE / CCF-A

SDN/NFV-Empowered Future IoV With Enhanced Communication, Computing, and Caching
Weihua Zhuang, Qiang Ye, Feng Lyu, Nan Cheng, Ju Ren
2020TON / CCF-A

Service Function Path Provisioning With Topology Aggregation in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Boyuan Yan, Yongli Zhao, Xiaosong Yu, Yajie Li, Sabidur Rahman, Yongqi He, Xiangjun Xin, Jie Zhang
2020JSAC / CCF-A

SFC-Based Service Provisioning for Reconfigurable Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
Guangchao Wang, Sheng Zhou, Shan Zhang, Zhisheng Niu, Xuemin Shen
2020IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Sharing Distributed and Heterogeneous Resources toward End-to-End 5G Networks: A Comprehensive Survey and a Taxonomy
Nina Slamnik-Krijestorac, Haris Kremo, Marco Ruffini, Johann M. Marquez-Barja
2020arXiv

The Greatest Teacher, Failure is: Using Reinforcement Learning for SFC Placement Based on Availability and Energy Consumption
Guto Leoni Santos, Theo Lynn, Judith Kelner, Patricia Takako Endo
2020TPDS / CCF-A

Throughput Maximization of NFV-Enabled Multicasting in Mobile Edge Cloud Networks
Yu Ma, Weifa Liang, Jie Wu, Zichuan Xu
2020INFOCOM / CCF-A

Towards Latency Optimization in Hybrid Service Function Chain Composition and Embedding
Danyang Zheng, Chengzong Peng, Xueting Liao, Ling Tian, Guangchun Luo, Xiaojun Cao
2020TCOM / CCF-B

Virtual Network Embedding With Guaranteed Connectivity Under Multiple Substrate Link Failures
Nashid Shahriar, Reaz Ahmed, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Md Mashrur Alam Khan, Raouf Boutaba, Jeebak Mitra, Feng Zeng
2020JSAC / CCF-A

Virtual Network Function Placement Optimization With Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ruben Solozabal, Josu Ceberio, Aitor Sanchoyerto, Luis Zabala, Bego Blanco, Fidel Liberal
2020CN / CCF-B

Virtual Network Functions Migration Cost: from Identification to Prediction
Rafael de Jesus Martins, Cristiano Bonato Both, Juliano Araújo Wickboldt, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville

2019

2019CN / CCF-B

A multi-criteria decision approach for minimizing the influence of VNF migration
Bo Yi, X. Wang, Min Huang, Anwei Dong
2019IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

A Survey on the Placement of Virtual Resources and Virtual Network Functions
Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Tarik Taleb
2019INFOCOM / CCF-A

Adaptive Interference-Aware VNF Placement for Service-Customized 5G Network Slices
Qixia Zhang, Fangming Liu, Chaobing Zeng
2019TON / CCF-A

Adding Support for Automatic Enforcement of Security Policies in NFV Networks
Cataldo Basile, Fulvio Valenza, Antonio Lioy, Diego R. Lopez, Antonio Pastor Perales
2019TCOM / CCF-B

Automated Function Placement and Online Optimization of Network Functions Virtualization
Xiaojing Chen, Wei Ni, Iain B. Collings, Xin Wang, Shugong Xu
2019ICDCS / CCF-B

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based VNF Management in Geo-distributed Edge Computing
Lin Gu, Deze Zeng, Wei Li, Song Guo, Albert Y. Zomaya, Hai Jin
2019INFOCOM Workshops

DeepViNE: Virtual Network Embedding with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Mahdi Dolati, Seyedeh Bahereh Hassanpour, Majid Ghaderi, Ahmad Khonsari
2019TON / CCF-A

Dynamic Cloud Network Control Under Reconfiguration Delay and Cost
Chang-Heng Wang, Jaime Llorca, Antonia M. Tulino, Tara Javidi
2019TPDS / CCF-A

Dynamic Network Function Instance Scaling Based on Traffic Forecasting and VNF Placement in Operator Data Centers
Hong Tang, Danny Zhou, Duan Chen
2019JSAC / CCF-A

DYVINE: Fitness-Based Dynamic Virtual Network Embedding in Cloud Computing
Chinmaya Kumar Dehury, Prasan Kumar Sahoo
2019TPDS / CCF-A

Efficiently Embedding Service Function Chains with Dynamic Virtual Network Function Placement in Geo-Distributed Cloud System
Jianing Pei, Peilin Hong, Kaiping Xue, Defang Li
2019TPDS / CCF-A

Enabling Heterogeneous Network Function Chaining
Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Song Guo, Weijia Jia, Kaimin Wei, Wei Zhao
2019TMC / CCF-A

Energy-Efficient Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications in Virtualized Cellular Networks with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
Meng Li, F. Richard Yu, Pengbo Si, Yanhua Zhang
2019INFOCOM Workshops

Multi-domain Non-cooperative VNF-FG Embedding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Quang Pham Tran Anh, Abbas Bradai, Kamal Deep Singh, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul
2019TMC / CCF-A

Multi-Timescale Online Optimization of Network Function Virtualization for Service Chaining
Xiaojing Chen, Wei Ni, Tianyi Chen, Iain B. Collings, Xin Wang, Ren Ping Liu, Georgios B. Giannakis
2019SECON / CCF-B

Network Function Deployment with Balanced Server and Link Resources in Tree Topologies
Yang Chen, Jie Wu
2019TON / CCF-A

Network Topology Mapping From Partial Virtual Coordinates and Graph Geodesics
Anura P. Jayasumana, Randy Paffenroth, Gunjan Mahindre, Sridhar Ramasamy, Kelum Gajamannage
2019TMC / CCF-A

Network Virtualization with Energy Efficiency Optimization for Wireless Heterogeneous Networks
Tai Manh Ho, Nguyen H. Tran, Long Bao Le, Zhu Han, S.M Ahsan Kazmi, Choong Seon Hong
2019IWQoS / CCF-B

NFVdeep: Adaptive Online Service Function Chain Deployment with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yikai Xiao, Qixia Zhang, Fangming Liu, Jia Wang, Miao Zhao, Zhongxing Zhang, Jiaxing Zhang
2019INFOCOM / CCF-A

Octans: Optimal Placement of Service Function Chains in Many-Core Systems
Zhilong Zheng, Jun Bi, Heng Yu, Haiping Wang, Chen Sun, Hongxin Hu, Jianping Wu
2019TON / CCF-A

Routing via Functions in Virtual Networks: The Curse of Choices
Thi-Minh Nguyen, André Girard, Catherine Rosenberg, Serge Fdida
2019IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Segment Routing in Software Defined Networks: A Survey
Zahraa N. Abdullah, Imtiaz Ahmad, Iftekhar Hussain
2019Proc. IEEE / CCF-A

Survey of Performance Acceleration Techniques for Network Function Virtualization
Leonardo Linguaglossa, Stanislav Lange, Salvatore Pontarelli, Gábor Rétvári, Dario Rossi, Thomas Zinner, Roberto Bifulco, Michael Jarschel, Giuseppe Bianchi
2019TMC / CCF-A

Throughput-Optimal Broadcast in Wireless Networks with Dynamic Topology
Abhishek Sinha, Leandros Tassiulas, Eytan Modiano
2019IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Traffic Steering for Service Function Chaining
Hajar Hantouti, Nabil Benamar, Tarik Taleb, Abdelquoddous Laghrissi
2019SOSR

Unveiling the potential of Graph Neural Networks for network modeling and optimization in SDN
Krzysztof Rusek, José Suárez-Varela, Albert Mestres, Pere Barlet-Ros, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio
2019TON / CCF-A

Virtual Network Embedding Approximations: Leveraging Randomized Rounding
Matthias Rost, Stefan Schmid
2019ICNP / CCF-B

Virtual Network Embedding with Path-based Latency Guarantees in Elastic Optical Networks
Sepehr Taeb, Nashid Shahriar, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Massimo Tornatore, Raouf Boutaba, Jeebak Mitra, Mahdi Hemmati
2019ICDCS / CCF-B

VirtualEdge: Multi-Domain Resource Orchestration and Virtualization in Cellular Edge Computing
Qiang Liu, Tao Han
2019CN / CCF-B

VNE-TD: A virtual network embedding algorithm based on temporal-difference learning
Sen Wang, Jun Bi, Jianping Wu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qilin Fan
2019Proc. IEEE / CCF-A

Will Serverless Computing Revolutionize NFV?
Paarijaat Aditya, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Andre Beck, Ruichuan Chen, Volker Hilt, Ivica Rimac, Klaus Satzke, Manuel Stein

2018

2018CN / CCF-B

A Comprehensive Survey of Network Function Virtualization
Bo Yi, Xingwei Wang, Keqin Li, Sajal k. Das, Min Huang
2018SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Automated synthesis of adversarial workloads for network functions
Luis Pedrosa, Rishabh Iyer, Arseniy Zaostrovnykh, Jonas Fietz, Katerina Argyraki
2018IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Dependability of the NFV Orchestrator: State of the Art and Research Challenges
Andres J. Gonzalez, Gianfranco Nencioni, Andrzej Kamisiński, Bjarne E. Helvik, Poul E. Heegaard
2018TON / CCF-A

Deploying Chains of Virtual Network Functions: On the Relation Between Link and Server Usage
Tung-Wei Kuo, Bang-Heng Liou, Kate Ching-Ju Lin, Ming-Jer Tsai
2018TC / CCF-A

Design, Implementation and Verification of Cloud Architecture for Monitoring a Virtual Machine's Security Health
Tianwei Zhang, Ruby B. Lee
2018HPCA / CCF-A

Enabling Efficient Network Service Function Chain Deployment on Heterogeneous Server Platform
Yang Hu, Tao Li
2018TPDS / CCF-A

Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Scheduling on Data Centers with Heterogeneous Bandwidths
Daniel Guimaraes Lago, Edmundo R. M. Madeira, Deep Medhi
2018TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Enhancing Metaheuristic-Based Online Embedding in Network Virtualization Environments
Javier Rubio-Loyola, Christian Aguilar-Fuster, Gregorio Toscano-Pulido, Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat-Fernández
2018INFOCOM / CCF-A

Joint Placement and Routing of Network Function Chains in Data Centers
Linqi Guo, John Pang, Anwar Walid
2018INFOCOM / CCF-A

Joint VNF Placement and CPU Allocation in 5G
Satyam Agarwal, Francesco Malandrino, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, S. De
2018TPDS / CCF-A

LVRM: On the Design of Efficient Link Based Virtual Resource Management Algorithm for Cloud Platforms
Prasan Kumar Sahoo, Chinmaya Kumar Dehury, Bharadwaj Veeravalli
2018JSAC / CCF-A

Network Function Virtualization in Dynamic Networks: A Stochastic Perspective
Xiangle Cheng, Yulei Wu, Geyong Min, Albert Y. Zomaya
2018IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Network Slicing and Softwarization: A Survey on Principles, Enabling Technologies, and Solutions
Ibrahim Afolabi, Tarik Taleb, Konstantinos Samdanis, Adlen Ksentini, Hannu Flinck
2018INFOCOM / CCF-A

NeuroViNE: A Neural Preprocessor for Your Virtual Network Embedding Algorithm
Andreas Blenk, Patrick Kalmbach, Johannes Zerwas, Michael Jarschel, Stefan Schmid, Wolfgang Kellerer
2018TON / CCF-A

Optimal Network Service Chain Provisioning
Nicolas Huin, Brigitte Jaumard, Frédéric Giroire
2018INFOCOM / CCF-A

Provably Efficient Algorithms for Placement of Service Function Chains with Ordering Constraints
Andrea Tomassilli, Frédéric Giroire, Nicolas Huin, Stéphane Pérennes
2018SECON / CCF-B

Rethinking Virtual Network Embedding in Reconfigurable Networks
Max Curran, Md. Shaifur Rahman, Himanshu Gupta, Vyas Sekar
2018INFOCOM / CCF-A

Shortest Path and Maximum Flow Problems Under Service Function Chaining Constraints
Gamal Sallam, Gagan R. Gupta, Bin Li, Bo Ji
2018TPDS / CCF-A

TerrierTail: Mitigating Tail Latency of Cloud Virtual Machines
Esmail Asyabi, SeyedAlireza SanaeeKohroudi, Mohsen Sharifi, Azer Bestavros
2018IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics / CCF-B

Virtual Network Embedding via Monte Carlo Tree Search
Soroush Haeri, Ljiljana Trajković
2018ICNP / CCF-B

Virtual Network Function Deployment in Tree-Structured Networks
Yang Chen, Jie Wu, Bo Ji
2018TPDS / CCF-A

Virtual Network Function Placement Considering Resource Optimization and SFC Requests in Cloud Datacenter
Defang Li, Peilin Hong, Kaiping Xue, Jianing Pei
2018JSAC / CCF-A

Virtual Network Survivability Through Joint Spare Capacity Allocation and Embedding
Nashid Shahriar, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed, Aimal Khan, Siavash Fathi, Raouf Boutaba, Jeebak Mitra, Liu Liu
2018JSAC / CCF-A

vSPACE: VNF Simultaneous Placement, Admission Control and Embedding
Mohammad Ali Tahmasbi Nejad, Saeedeh Parsaeefard, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Toktam Mahmoodi, Babak Hossein Khalaj

2017

2017IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

A Survey on the Contributions of Software-Defined Networking to Traffic Engineering
Alaitz Mendiola, Jasone Astorga, Eduardo Jacob, Marivi Higuero
2017TON / CCF-A

An Approach for Service Function Chain Routing and Virtual Function Network Instance Migration in Network Function Virtualization Architectures
Vincenzo Eramo, Emanuele Miucci, Mostafa Ammar, Francesco Giacinto Lavacca
2017CCNC

An Efficient Algorithm for Virtual Network Function Placement and Chaining
Oussama Soualah, Marouen Mechtri, Chaima Ghribi, Djamal Zeghlache
2017TPDS / CCF-A

Cluster-Aware Virtual Machine Collaborative Migration in Media Cloud
Weizhan Zhang, Yuxuan Chen, Xiang Gao, Zhichao Mo, Qinghua Zheng, Zongqing Lu
2017TON / CCF-A

Congestion-Aware Embedding of Heterogeneous Bandwidth Virtual Data Centers With Hose Model Abstraction
Fangfang Yan, Tony T. Lee, Weisheng Hu
2017JSAC / CCF-A

Distributed Service Function Chaining
Milad Ghaznavi, Nashid Shahriar, Shahin Kamali, Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba
2017ICDCS / CCF-B

Joint Optimization of Chain Placement and Request Scheduling for Network Function Virtualization
Qixia Zhang, Yikai Xiao, Fangming Liu, John C.S. Lui, Jian Guo, Tao Wang
2017ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

Knowledge-Defined Networking
Albert Mestres, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Josep Carner, Pere Barlet-Ros, Eduard Alarcón, Marc Solé, Victor Muntés-Mulero, David Meyer, Sharon Barkai, Mike J. Hibbett, Giovani Estrada, Khaldun Ma'ruf, Florin Coras, Vina Ermagan, Hugo Latapie, Chris Cassar, John Evans, Fabio Maino, Jean Walrand, Albert Cabellos
2017HotNets / CCF-C

Learning to Route
Asaf Valadarsky, Michael Schapira, Dafna Shahaf, Aviv Tamar
2017TON / CCF-A

Mobile Edge Cloud Network Design Optimization
Alberto Ceselli, Marco Premoli, Stefano Secci
2017TMC / CCF-A

Mobility Aware Virtual Network Embedding
Giorgos Chochlidakis, Vasilis Friderikos
2017ICDCS / CCF-B

Multi-resource Load Balancing for Virtual Network Functions
Tao Wang, Hong Xu, Fangming Liu
2017TON / CCF-A

Multi-Tenant Radio Access Network Slicing: Statistical Multiplexing of Spatial Loads
Pablo Caballero, Albert Banchs, Gustavo de Veciana, Xavier Costa-Pérez
2017TON / CCF-A

Online Allocation of Virtual Machines in a Distributed Cloud
Fang Hao, Murali Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, Sarit Mukherjee
2017TON / CCF-A

Optimizing Virtual Backup Allocation for Middleboxes
Yossi Kanizo, Ori Rottenstreich, Itai Segall, Jose Yallouz
2017TPDS / CCF-A

Raccoon: A Novel Network I/O Allocation Framework for Workload-Aware VM Scheduling in Virtual Environments
Lingfang Zeng, Yang Wang, Xiaopeng Fan, Chengzhong Xu
2017TPDS / CCF-A

Reliable Virtual Machine Placement and Routing in Clouds
Song Yang, Philipp Wieder, Ramin Yahyapour, Stojan Trajanovski, Xiaoming Fu
2017TC / CCF-A

Routing or Computing? The Paradigm Shift Towards Intelligent Computer Network Packet Transmission Based on Deep Learning
Bomin Mao, Zubair Md. Fadlullah, Fengxiao Tang, Nei Kato, Osamu Akashi, Takeru Inoue, Kimihiro Mizutani
2017TON / CCF-A

Traffic-Aware Virtual Machine Migration in Topology-Adaptive DCN
Yong Cui, Zhenjie Yang, Shihan Xiao, Xin Wang, Shenghui Yan

2016

2016Journal of Network and Computer Applications / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

A Survey on Service Function Chaining
Deval Bhamare, Raj Jain, Mohammed Samaka, Aiman Erbad
2016ICNP / CCF-B

Application of evolutionary mechanism to dynamic Virtual Network Function Placement
Mari Otokura, Kenji Leibnitz, Yuki Koizumi, Daichi Kominami, Tetsuya Shimokawa, Masayuki Murata
2016ICNP / CCF-B

Cache contention aware Virtual Machine placement and migration in cloud datacenters
Liuhua Chen, Haiying Shen, Stephen Platt
2016IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges
Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Niels Bouten, Filip De Turck, Raouf Boutaba
2016SIGCOMM / CCF-A

OpenBox: A Software-Defined Framework for Developing, Deploying, and Managing Network Functions
Anat Bremler-Barr, Yotam Harchol, David Hay
2016TNSM / CCF-C; JCR-Q1

Resource Allocation in NFV: A Comprehensive Survey
Juliver Gil Herrera, Juan Felipe Botero
2016SIGCOMM / CCF-A

SLA-NFV: an SLA-aware High Performance Framework for Network Function Virtualization
Chen Sun, Jun Bi, Zhilong Zheng, Hongxin Hu
2016ICNP / CCF-B

SliM: Enabling efficient, seamless NFV state migration
Leonhard Nobach, Ivica Rimac, Volker Hilt, David Hausheer
2016JSAC / CCF-A

Study of Reconfiguration Cost and Energy Aware VNE Policies in Cycle-Stationary Traffic Scenarios
Vincenzo Eramo, Emanuele Miucci, Mostafa H. Ammar
2016IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking
Andreas Blenk, Arsany Basta, Martin Reisslein, Wolfgang Kellerer
2016ICNP / CCF-B

Transparent flow migration for NFV
Yang Wang, Gaogang Xie, Zhenyu Li, Peng He, Kavé Salamatian

2015

2015SIGCOMM / CCF-A

Central Control Over Distributed Routing
Stefano Vissicchio, Olivier Tilmans, Laurent Vanbever, Jennifer Rexford
2015ICNP / CCF-B

How Hard Can It Be?: Understanding the Complexity of Replica Aware Virtual Cluster Embeddings
Carlo Fuerst, Maciej Pacut, Paolo Costa, Stefan Schmid
2015SCC

MDP and Machine Learning-Based Cost-Optimization of Dynamic Resource Allocation for Network Function Virtualization
Runyu Shi, Jia Zhang, Wenjing Chu, Qihao Bao, Xiatao Jin, Chenran Gong, Qihao Zhu, Chang Yu, Steven Rosenberg

2014

2014INFOCOM / CCF-A

Toward Profit-Seeking Virtual Network Embedding Algorithm via Global Resource Capacity
Long Gong, Yonggang Wen, Zuqing Zhu, Tony Lee

2013

2013JCSS / CCF-B

A Multi-objective Ant Colony System algorithm for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Computing
Yongqiang Gao, Haibing Guan, Zhengwei Qi, Yang Hou, Liang Liu
2013IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey
Md. Faizul Bari, Raouf Boutaba, Rafael Esteves, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Maxim Podlesny, Md Golam Rabbani, Qi Zhang, Mohamed Faten Zhani
2013IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Virtual Network Embedding: A Survey
Andreas Fischer, Juan Felipe Botero, Michael Till Beck, Hermann de Meer, Xavier Hesselbach

2012

2012INFOCOM / CCF-A

Joint VM Placement and Routing for Data Center Traffic Engineering
Joe Wenjie Jiang, Tian Lan, Sangtae Ha, Minghua Chen, Mung Chiang
2012IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials / JCR-Q1

Resource Discovery and Allocation in Network Virtualization
Abdeltouab Belbekkouche, Md. Mahmud Hasan, Ahmed Karmouch
2012CN / CCF-B

Virtual Network Embedding through Topology Awareness and Optimization
Xiang Cheng, Sen Su, Zhongbao Zhang, Kai Shuang, Fangchun Yang, Yan Luo, Jie Wang