Papers on Network Resource Allocation

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This is a paper list about Network Resource Allocation in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), including

Comprehensive Survey and Analysis
Slicing: Network Slicing
Chaining: VNF Chaining (aka SFC Orchestration)
Deployment: VNF Deployment (aka SFC Deployment)
Scheduling: VNF Scheduling (including Scaling, Reconfiguration and Migration)
Routing: Network Traffic Measurement and Management
Multi-domain (aka cross-domain, multi-region or other resemble names)

Here, VNF - Virtual Network Function and SFC - Service Function Chain.

We mainly collect papers from high-quality journals and conferences. Paper type, method families, research directions, and scenarios are modeled independently; the README keeps one primary display section for readability, while the website exposes the complete multi-value taxonomy.

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Direction: Chaining, Deployment, Scheduling, Routing, Joint
Publication: SIGCOMM, INFOCOM, JSAC, TON, TMC, TPDS, TSC, ...
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Scenario: Distributed, IoT, Edge, Mobile, Optical Network, ...
Awareness: Latency, Congestion, Privacy, Energy, Parallelization, Reliability, Multicast
RL-ALGO: DQN, DDPG, A3C, PPO, ...
NN-type: CNN, RNN, GNN, ...

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Catalog Trends

Note

These charts summarize this curated catalog. Coverage changes may reflect collection activity as well as research activity.

Catalog coverage: 388 papers spanning 2012–2026.
Largest research method family: Heuristic — 211 papers (54.4% of the catalog).
Most represented direction: Deployment — 174 papers (44.8%).
Most represented publication year: 2021 — 59 papers.

Content

Generated from the catalog data: 388 curated paper records (243 legacy, 145 verified).

1. Survey and Analysis
2. Mathematical-based Methods
3. Heuristic-based Methods
4. Machine Learning-based Methods
5. Systems and Other Methods

1. Survey and Analysis

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Software Defined Networking: A Survey, Research Challenges, and Future Perspectives
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2026 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Vijay Prakash Bijlwan; Neetesh Kumar
- Keywords: Deep reinforcement learning; Software-defined networking; Traffic engineering; QoS; Network optimization
- Link: DOI
Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Engineering in Programmable Networks: A Survey
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2026 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Santiago Ríos-Guiral; Abdelkader Lahmadi; Juan F. Botero; Sergio A. Gutiérrez
- Keywords: Reinforcement learning; Traffic engineering; Programmable networks; Software-defined networking; Routing
- Link: DOI
A Survey on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Improved Rich Media Content Delivery in a 5G and Beyond Network Slicing Context
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2025 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Fazal E. Subhan; Abid Yaqoob; Cristina Hava Muntean; Gabriel-Miro Muntean
- Keywords: Network slicing; Rich media; Artificial intelligence; Resource management; QoS; QoE
- Link: DOI
A Survey on Beyond 5G Network Slicing for Smart Cities Applications
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2025 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Wajid Rafique; Joyeeta Rani Barai; Abraham O. Fapojuwo; Diwakar Krishnamurthy
- Keywords: Network slicing; Smart cities; Resource allocation; Orchestration; AI; B5G
- Link: DOI
AI-Empowered Virtual Network Embedding: A Comprehensive Survey
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2025 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Sheng Wu; Ning Chen; Ailing Xiao; Peiying Zhang; Chunxiao Jiang; Wei Zhang
- Keywords: Virtual network embedding; Artificial intelligence; Reinforcement learning; Multi-domain; 6G
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Embedding: Literature Assessment, Recent Advancements, Opportunities, and Challenges
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2025 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Anurag Satpathy; Manmath Narayan Sahoo; Chittaranjan Swain; Paolo Bellavista; Mohsen Guizani; Khan Muhammad; Sambit Bakshi
- Keywords: Virtual network embedding; Network virtualization; Resource allocation; Taxonomy
- Link: DOI
Network Slicing-Based Learning Techniques for IoV in 5G and Beyond Networks
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2024 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Wafa Hamdi; Chahrazed Ksouri; Hasan Bulut; Mohamed Mosbah
- Keywords: Network slicing; Internet of Vehicles; Machine learning; Resource allocation; 5G; 6G
- Link: DOI
Resource Management From Single-Domain 5G to End-to-End 6G Network Slicing: A Survey
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2024 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Sina Ebrahimi; Faouzi Bouali; Olivier C. L. Haas
- Keywords: Network slicing; End-to-end; Resource management; Multi-domain; Orchestration; 5G; 6G
- Link: DOI
VNF and CNF Placement in 5G: Recent Advances and Future Trends
- Publication: TNSM 2023 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Wissal Attaoui; Essaid Sabir; Halima Elbiaze; Mohsen Guizani
- Link: DOI
A Survey of Intelligent Network Slicing Management for Industrial IoT: Integrated Approaches for Smart Transportation, Smart Energy, and Smart Factory
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2022 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Yulei Wu; Hong-Ning Dai; Haozhe Wang; Zehui Xiong; Song Guo
- Keywords: Network slicing; Industrial IoT; Orchestration; Service function chaining; Resource management
- Link: DOI
Network Services Anomalies in NFV: Survey, Taxonomy, and Verification Methods
- Publication: TNSM 2022 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Moubarak Zoure; Toufik Ahmed; Laurent Réveillére
- Link: DOI
A Survey of Network Virtualization Techniques for Internet of Things Using SDN and NFV
- Publication: TPDS 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Iqbal Alam; Kashif Sharif; Fan Li; Zohaib Latif; M. M. Karim; Sujit Biswas; Boubakr Nour; Yu Wang
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
Graph-based Deep Learning for Communication Networks: A Survey
- Publication: arXiv 2021
- Authors: Weiwei Jiang
- Link: arXiv, published version
Leveraging Deep Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Engineering: A Survey
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2021 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Yang Xiao; Jun Liu; Jiawei Wu; Nirwan Ansari
- Keywords: Deep reinforcement learning; Traffic engineering; Routing; Network optimization
- Link: DOI
Recent Advances of Resource Allocation in Network Function Virtualization
- Publication: TPDS 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Song Yang; Fan Li; Stojan Trajanovski; Ramin Yahyapour; Xiaoming Fu
- Link: DOI
Segment Routing: A Comprehensive Survey of Research Activities, Standardization Efforts, and Implementation Results
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2021 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Pier Luigi Ventre; Stefano Salsano; Marco Polverini; Antonio Cianfrani; Ahmed Abdelsalam; Clarence Filsfils; Pablo Camarillo; Francois Clad
- Keywords: Segment routing; SRv6; Traffic engineering; Service function chaining; NFV
- Link: DOI, arxiv.org
Towards Low-Latency Service Delivery in a Continuum of Virtual Resources: State-of-the-Art and Research Directions
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2021 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Jose Santos; Tim Wauters; Bruno Volckaert; Filip De Turck
- Keywords: Softwarized networks; Service deployment; Cloud-edge continuum; Orchestration; Low latency
- Link: DOI
5G network slicing using SDN and NFV: A survey of taxonomy, architectures and future challenges
- Publication: CN 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Alcardo Alex Barakabitze; Arslan Ahmad; Rashid Mijumbi; Andrew Hines
- Link: DOI
On Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in Shared RANs: Survey and Qualitative Analysis
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2020 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Fatma Marzouk; Joao Paulo Barraca; Ayman Radwan
- Keywords: RAN sharing; Resource allocation; Energy efficiency; Network virtualization; VNF placement
- Link: DOI
SDN/NFV-Empowered Future IoV With Enhanced Communication, Computing, and Caching
- Publication: Proc. IEEE 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Weihua Zhuang; Qiang Ye; Feng Lyu; Nan Cheng; Ju Ren
- Link: DOI

Earlier papers (17)

Sharing Distributed and Heterogeneous Resources toward End-to-End 5G Networks: A Comprehensive Survey and a Taxonomy
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2020 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Nina Slamnik-Krijestorac; Haris Kremo; Marco Ruffini; Johann M. Marquez-Barja
- Keywords: 5G; Resource sharing; Multi-domain; Edge-cloud; Network slicing
- Link: DOI
A Survey on the Placement of Virtual Resources and Virtual Network Functions
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2019 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi; Tarik Taleb
- Link: DOI, PDF
Segment Routing in Software Defined Networks: A Survey
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2019 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Zahraa N. Abdullah; Imtiaz Ahmad; Iftekhar Hussain
- Keywords: Segment routing; Software-defined networking; Traffic engineering; Service function chaining; Network resiliency
- Link: DOI
Survey of Performance Acceleration Techniques for Network Function Virtualization
- Publication: Proc. IEEE 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Leonardo Linguaglossa; Stanislav Lange; Salvatore Pontarelli; Gábor Rétvári; Dario Rossi; Thomas Zinner; Roberto Bifulco; Michael Jarschel; Giuseppe Bianchi
- Link: DOI
Traffic Steering for Service Function Chaining
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2019 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Hajar Hantouti; Nabil Benamar; Tarik Taleb; Abdelquoddous Laghrissi
- Keywords: Service function chaining; Traffic steering; Software-defined networking; NFV; Scalability
- Link: DOI
Will Serverless Computing Revolutionize NFV?
- Publication: Proc. IEEE 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Paarijaat Aditya; Istemi Ekin Akkus; Andre Beck; Ruichuan Chen; Volker Hilt; Ivica Rimac; Klaus Satzke; Manuel Stein
- Link: DOI
A Comprehensive Survey of Network Function Virtualization
- Publication: CN 2018 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Bo Yi; Xingwei Wang; Keqin Li; Sajal k. Das; Min Huang
- Link: DOI
Dependability of the NFV Orchestrator: State of the Art and Research Challenges
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2018 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Andres J. Gonzalez; Gianfranco Nencioni; Andrzej Kamisiński; Bjarne E. Helvik; Poul E. Heegaard
- Link: DOI
Network Slicing and Softwarization: A Survey on Principles, Enabling Technologies, and Solutions
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2018 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Ibrahim Afolabi; Tarik Taleb; Konstantinos Samdanis; Adlen Ksentini; Hannu Flinck
- Link: DOI
A Survey on the Contributions of Software-Defined Networking to Traffic Engineering
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2017 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Alaitz Mendiola; Jasone Astorga; Eduardo Jacob; Marivi Higuero
- Keywords: Software-defined networking; Traffic engineering; Routing; Congestion; Load balancing
- Link: DOI
A Survey on Service Function Chaining
- Publication: Journal of Network and Computer Applications 2016 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Deval Bhamare; Raj Jain; Mohammed Samaka; Aiman Erbad
- Link: DOI, ResearchGate
Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2016 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Rashid Mijumbi; Joan Serrat; Juan-Luis Gorricho; Niels Bouten; Filip De Turck; Raouf Boutaba
- Link: DOI
Resource Allocation in NFV: A Comprehensive Survey
- Publication: TNSM 2016 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Juliver Gil Herrera; Juan Felipe Botero
- Link: DOI
Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2016 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Andreas Blenk; Arsany Basta; Martin Reisslein; Wolfgang Kellerer
- Link: DOI
Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2013 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Md. Faizul Bari; Raouf Boutaba; Rafael Esteves; Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville; Maxim Podlesny; Md Golam Rabbani; Qi Zhang; Mohamed Faten Zhani
- Keywords: Data center; Network virtualization; Virtual data center; Resource allocation; Embedding
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Embedding: A Survey
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2013 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Andreas Fischer; Juan Felipe Botero; Michael Till Beck; Hermann de Meer; Xavier Hesselbach
- Link: DOI
Resource Discovery and Allocation in Network Virtualization
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2012 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Abdeltouab Belbekkouche; Md. Mahmud Hasan; Ahmed Karmouch
- Keywords: Network virtualization; Resource discovery; Resource allocation; Virtual network embedding
- Link: DOI

2. Mathematical-based Methods

2.1 Slicing

Reliability-Enhanced Network Slicing for Time-Varying Software-Defined Space Information Network
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Huiting Yang; Feng Wang; Wei Liu; Wenqiang Pu; Haibo Zhou; Tony Q. S. Quek
- Keywords: Software-defined space information network; Network slicing; Service function chain; Reliability; Time-varying topology
- Objective: Service reliability +; Resource utilization +; Deployment cost -
- Link: DOI
Analytical Modeling and Improvement of Interference-Coupled RAN Slicing
- Publication: TMC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Seyed Ali Hashemian; Farid Ashtiani
- Keywords: RAN slicing; Interference coupling; Analytical model; Resource isolation
- Objective: Resource efficiency +; Inter-slice interference -
- Link: DOI
End-to-End Resource Slicing for Coexistence of eMBB and URLLC Services in 5G-Advanced/6G Networks
- Publication: TMC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Shiva Kazemi Taskou; Mehdi Rasti; Ekram Hossain
- Keywords: End-to-end slicing; eMBB; URLLC; 5G-Advanced; 6G
- Objective: eMBB throughput +; URLLC latency -; Reliability +
- Link: DOI
Hierarchical Network Slicing for UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks With Deployment Optimization
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Fengsheng Wei; Gang Feng; Shuang Qin; Youkun Peng; Yijing Liu
- Keywords: Hierarchical network slicing; UAV deployment; Joint optimization
- Objective: Slice utility +; UAV deployment cost -
- Link: DOI
Constrained Network Slicing Games: Achieving Service Guarantees and Network Efficiency
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jiaxiao Zheng; Albert Banchs; Gustavo de Veciana
- Keywords: Network slicing; Resource allocation; Constrained game; Service guarantee; Network efficiency
- Link: arXiv, published version
Network Slicing: Market Mechanism and Competitive Equilibria
- Publication: INFOCOM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Panagiotis Promponas; Leandros Tassiulas
- Keywords: Network slicing; Market mechanism; Competitive equilibrium; Resource allocation; Auction
- Link: arXiv, published version

2.2 Chaining

A Latency-Driven Availability Assessment for Multi-Tenant Service Chains
- Publication: TSC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Luigi De Simone; Mario Di Mauro; Roberto Natella; Fabio Postiglione
- Keywords: Containerized network function; Service function chain; Multi-tenancy; Availability; Latency
- Link: arXiv, published version

2.3 Deployment

Robust SFC Placement in Next Generation Multi-Domain IoT Networks Under Resource Demand Uncertainty
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Chuangchuang Zhang; Qiang He; Fuliang Li; Xingwei Wang; Wei Qian; Junxin Chen; Kaifa Zheng; Ammar Hawbani; Keping Yu
- Keywords: NFV; Service function chain; Multi-domain IoT; Robust optimization; Resource uncertainty
- Objective: Placement cost -; Constraint violations -; Robustness +
- Link: DOI
Quantum-Assisted Joint Virtual Network Function Deployment and Maximum Flow Routing for Space Information Networks
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yu Zhang; Yanmin Gong; Lei Fan; Yu Wang; Zhu Han; Yuanxiong Guo
- Keywords: NFV; Space information network; VNF deployment; Maximum-flow routing; Quantum optimization
- Objective: Processed data +; Routing throughput +; Solution time -
- Link: arXiv, published version
AoI-Aware Inference Services in Edge Computing via Digital Twin Network Slicing
- Publication: TSC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yuncan Zhang; Weifa Liang; Zichuan Xu; Wenzheng Xu; Min Chen
- Keywords: Digital twin; Network slicing; Edge inference; Online admission; Competitive analysis
- Objective: Expected cost -; Age of information -; Acceptance ratio +
- Link: DOI
Cell-Free Massive MIMO in O-RAN: Energy-Aware Joint Orchestration of Cloud, Fronthaul, and Radio Resources
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Özlem Tuğfe Demir; Meysam Masoudi; Emil Björnson; Cicek Cavdar
- Keywords: O-RAN; Cell-free massive MIMO; Cloud resources; Fronthaul; Joint orchestration
- Objective: Energy consumption -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Digital Twin-Assisted, SFC-Enabled Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge Computing
- Publication: TMC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jing Li; Song Guo; Weifa Liang; Quan Chen; Zichuan Xu; Wenzheng Xu; Albert Y. Zomaya
- Keywords: Deployment; Mobile; Edge; Integer Linear Program (ILP)
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -; Reliability +
- Link: DOI
Neyman-Pearson Criterion Driven NFV-SDN Architectures and Optimal Resource-Allocations for Statistical-QoS Based mURLLC Over Next-Generation Metaverse Mobile Networks Using FBC
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xi Zhang; Qixuan Zhu; H. Vincent Poor
- Keywords: NFV-SDN; Statistical QoS; mURLLC; Finite blocklength coding; Neyman-Pearson criterion
- Objective: Effective capacity +; QoS violation probability -
- Link: DOI
Placement and Allocation of Virtual Network Functions: Multi-dimensional Case
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Gamal Sallam; Zizhan Zheng; Bo Ji
- Keywords: Deployment; Mobile; Edge; Relaxation; Multi-dimensional; Primal-dual technique
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
PlaceRAN: Optimal Placement of Virtualized Network Functions in Beyond 5G Radio Access Networks
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Fernando Zanferrari Morais; Gabriel Matheus F. de Almeida; Leizer Pinto; Kleber Vieira Cardoso; Luis M. Contreras; Rodrigo da Rosa Righi; Cristiano Bonato Both
- Keywords: Deployment; Mobile; 5G Network; BILP (Binary Integer Linear Programming)
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI

2.4 Scheduling

DetO-RAN: Dual-Timescale Resource Allocation for Flows in Deterministic Open RAN
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Kai Qiao; Hao Xiong; Qinding Wang; Zihao Zhang; Hongchao Wang; Weiting Zhang; Dong Yang
- Keywords: Deterministic O-RAN; Dual-timescale allocation; Flow scheduling; Radio resource management; QoS
- Objective: Schedulability +; Deadline violations -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
FairRIC: Real-Time Fair Allocation in O-RAN with Shared Computing
- Publication: INFOCOM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Fatih Aslan; Jose A. Ayala-Romero; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Xavier Costa-Perez; George Iosifidis
- Keywords: O-RAN; Shared computing; Online convex optimization; Real-time allocation; Long-term fairness
- Objective: Allocation fairness +; Energy consumption -; Decision time -
- Link: DOI
Online Flow Scheduling in Virtualized Time-Sensitive Networks: A Joint Admission Control and VNF Embedding Approach
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yajing Zhang; Cailian Chen; Mingyan Li; Chaoqun You; Xinping Guan; Tony Q. S. Quek
- Keywords: Virtualized time-sensitive networking; Online scheduling; Admission control; VNF embedding; Deterministic latency
- Objective: Acceptance ratio +; Deadline violations -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
Optimal Control for Distributed Wireless SDN: Theory and Architecture
- Publication: TON 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Quang Minh Nguyen; Eytan Modiano
- Keywords: Distributed wireless SDN; Max-weight control; Inter-domain scheduling; Delayed network state; Controller synchronization
- Objective: Throughput +; Control delay -; Stability +
- Link: DOI
ORANUS: Latency-Tailored Orchestration via Stochastic Network Calculus in 6G O-RAN
- Publication: INFOCOM 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa; Lanfranco Zanzi; Vincenzo Sciancalepore; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Xavier Costa-Pérez
- Keywords: 6G O-RAN; Stochastic network calculus; Tail latency; Orchestration
- Objective: Tail latency violations -; Resource utilization +
- Link: arXiv, published version

2.5 Routing

A Fast Solver-Free Algorithm for Traffic Engineering in Large-Scale Data Center Network
- Publication: NSDI 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yingming Mao; Qiaozhu Zhai; Ximeng Liu; Zhen Yao; Xia Zhu; Yuzhou Zhou
- Keywords: Data center network; Traffic engineering; Solver-free optimization; Split ratio; Maximum link utilization
- Objective: Maximum link utilization -; Solver runtime -; Scalability +
- Link: arXiv, usenix.org
An SFC-Constrained Max-Flow Solver for Satellite Networks Using Flexible Function-Time Expanded Graph
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Peng Wang; Suman Sourav; Binbin Chen; Hongyan Li
- Keywords: Satellite network; Service function chain; Maximum flow; Function-time expanded graph; Joint compute-network resources
- Objective: Maximum flow +; Resource utilization +; Solver runtime -
- Link: DOI
RRO: A Regularized Routing Optimization Algorithm for Enhanced Throughput and Low Latency With Efficient Complexity
- Publication: JSAC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: David Zenati; Tzalik Maimon; Kobi Cohen
- Keywords: Routing optimization; Regularization; Wireless networks; Low-complexity control
- Objective: Throughput +; Latency -; Computational complexity -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Network-Aided Intelligent Traffic Steering in 6G O-RAN: A Multi-Layer Optimization Framework
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: 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
- Keywords: 6G O-RAN; Traffic steering; Multi-layer optimization; Radio resource allocation
- Objective: Network utility +; Throughput +
- Link: arXiv, published version
COIN: Cost-Efficient Traffic Engineering with Various Pricing Schemes in Clouds
- Publication: INFOCOM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Gongming Zhao; Jingzhou Wang; Hongli Xu; Zhuolong Yu; Chunming Qiao
- Keywords: Cloud network; Inter-datacenter traffic; Traffic engineering; Pricing; Cost optimization
- Link: DOI

2.6 Other

KPI Guarantees in Network Slicing
- Publication: TON 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jorge Martín-Pérez; Francesco Malandrino; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini; Milan Groshev; Carlos J. Bernardos
- Keywords: Performance
- Link: DOI
End-to-End Delay Guaranteed SFC Deployment: A Multi-level Mapping Approach
- Publication: arXiv 2021
- Authors: Fatemeh Yaghoubpour; Bahador Bakhshi; Fateme Seifi
- Link: arXiv
Performance Modeling of Softwarized Network Services Based on Queuing Theory With Experimental Validation
- Publication: TMC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jonathan Prados-Garzon; Pablo Ameigeiras; Juan J. Ramos-Munoz; Jorge Navarro-Ortiz; Pilar Andres-Maldonado; Juan M. Lopez-Soler
- Keywords: Performance
- Link: DOI
Contention-Aware Performance Prediction For Virtualized Network Functions
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Antonis Manousis; Rahul Anand Sharma; Vyas Sekar; Justine Sherry
- Keywords: Performance
- Link: DOI, code, ACM DL
On the Hardness and Inapproximability of Virtual Network Embeddings
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Matthias Rost; Stefan Schmid
- Link: DOI
Routing via Functions in Virtual Networks: The Curse of Choices
- Publication: TON 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Thi-Minh Nguyen; André Girard; Catherine Rosenberg; Serge Fdida
- Link: DOI

3. Heuristic-based Methods

3.1 Slicing

Failure Recovery for Network Slicing in Software-Defined Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Huiting Yang; Shengyu Zhang; Wei Liu; Wenqiang Pu; Haibo Zhou; Zan Li; Tony Q. S. Quek
- Keywords: Network slicing; Software-defined satellite-terrestrial network; Failure recovery; VNF remapping; Dynamic topology
- Objective: Recovery success +; Service interruption -; Recovery cost -
- Link: DOI
Mixed Numerology-Based Intelligent Resource Management in a Sliced 6G Space–Terrestrial Integrated Radio Access Network
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ning Hui; Qian Sun; Jie Zeng; Lin Tian; Yuanyuan Wang; Yiqing Zhou
- Keywords: 6G slicing; Space-terrestrial RAN; Mixed numerology; Social group optimization; Inter-numerology interference
- Objective: System utility +; Inter-numerology interference -; Slice isolation +
- Link: DOI
SAST-VNE: A Flexible Framework for Network Slicing in 6G Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
- Publication: JSAC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Mario Minardi; Youssouf Drif; Thang X. Vu; Symeon Chatzinotas
- Keywords: Network slicing; Virtual network embedding; Satellite-terrestrial network; Traffic prioritization; Migration
- Objective: Migration cost -; Network load -; Slice priority satisfaction +
- Link: DOI
Dynamic Network Slice for Bursty Edge Traffic
- Publication: TON 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Rongxin Han; Jingyu Wang; Qi Qi; Dezhi Chen; Zirui Zhuang; Haifeng Sun; Xiaoyuan Fu; Jianxin Liao; Song Guo
- Keywords: Dynamic slicing; Bursty traffic; Edge network; Elastic resource provisioning
- Objective: Resource utilization +; QoS violations -
- Link: DOI
Information-Aware Driven Dynamic LEO-RAN Slicing Algorithm Joint With Communication, Computing, and Caching
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Geng Chen; Shuhu Qi; Fei Shen; Qingtian Zeng; Yu-Dong Zhang
- Keywords: LEO-RAN; Dynamic slicing; Communication-computing-caching; Information-aware scheduling
- Objective: Service utility +; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Maximize the Long-Term Average Revenue of Network Slice Provider via Admission Control Among Heterogeneous Slices
- Publication: TON 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Miao Dai; Gang Sun; Hongfang Yu; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Network slicing; Admission control; Heterogeneous slices; Auction mechanism
- Objective: Provider revenue +; Admission fairness +
- Link: arXiv, published version
SEM-O-RAN: Semantic and Flexible O-RAN Slicing for NextG Edge-Assisted Mobile Systems
- Publication: INFOCOM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Corrado Puligheddu; Jonathan Ashdown; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini; Francesco Restuccia
- Keywords: O-RAN; Network slicing; Edge-assisted AI; Semantic compression; Resource allocation
- Link: arXiv, published version
An Agile and Distributed Mechanism for Inter-Domain Network Slicing in Next Generation Mobile Networks
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jalal Khamse-Ashari; Gamini Senarath; Irem Bor-Yaliniz; Halim Yanikomeroglu
- Keywords: Slicing; Distributed; Mobile Network
- Objective: Privacy-saving +
- Link: DOI
Toward Enabling Network Slice Mobility to Support 6G System
- Publication: TWC 2022 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Miloud Bagaa; Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra; Tarik Taleb; Hannu Flinck
- Keywords: Slicing; 6G; Multiobjective Optimization
- Objective: Delay -
- Link: DOI
An Efficient Linear Programming Rounding-and-Refinement Algorithm for Large-Scale Network Slicing Problem
- Publication: ICASSP 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Wei-Kun Chen; Ya-Feng Liu; Yu-Hong Dai; Zhi-Quan Luo
- Keywords: Slicing; Large-Scale; Linear Programming; Rounding-and-Refinement
- Link: DOI
Coordinated 5G Network Slicing: How Constructive Interference Can Boost Network Throughput
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Salvatore D'Oro; Leonardo Bonati; Francesco Restuccia; Tommaso Melodia
- Keywords: Slicing; Radio access network (RAN)
- Link: DOI
LACO: A Latency-Driven Network Slicing Orchestration in Beyond-5G Networks
- Publication: TWC 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Lanfranco Zanzi; Vincenzo Sciancalepore; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Hans Dieter Schotten; Xavier Costa-Pérez
- Keywords: Slicing; Orchestration; Multi-armed-bandit-based (MAB)
- Objective: Delay -
- Link: arXiv, published version
A Coverage-Aware Resource Provisioning Method for Network Slicing
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Quang-Trung Luu; Sylvaine Kerboeuf; Alexandre Mouradian; Michel Kieffer
- Keywords: Slicing
- Link: DOI
End-to-end network slicing for future wireless in multi-region cloud platforms
- Publication: CN 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Simona Marinova; Thomas Lin; Hadi Bannazadeh; Alberto Leon-Garcia
- Keywords: Slicing; Multi-domain; E2E (End-to-end); network slicing
- Link: DOI
Multiservice-Based Network Slicing Orchestration With Impatient Tenants
- Publication: TWC 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Bin Han; Vincenzo Sciancalepore; Xavier Costa-Pérez; Di Feng; Hans D. Schotten
- Keywords: Slicing; Orchestration; Chaining
- Objective: Delay -
- Link: DOI
Optimization Model for Cross-Domain Network Slices in 5G Networks
- Publication: TMC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Rami Akrem Addad; Miloud Bagaa; Tarik Taleb; Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra; Hannu Flinck
- Keywords: Slicing; Multi-domain
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Multi-Tenant Radio Access Network Slicing: Statistical Multiplexing of Spatial Loads
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Pablo Caballero; Albert Banchs; Gustavo de Veciana; Xavier Costa-Pérez
- Keywords: Slicing
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI

3.2 Chaining

SDN-Based Service Function Chaining in Integrated Terrestrial and LEO Satellite-Based Space Internet
- Publication: JSAC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Gao Zheng; Ning Wang; Peng Qian; David Griffin; Regius Rahim Tafazolli
- Keywords: SDN; NFV; Service function chaining; LEO satellite; Geosynchronous orchestration
- Objective: Routing recalculation overhead -; Data-plane performance +; Control-plane performance +
- Link: DOI
A Practical Near Optimal Deployment of Service Function Chains in Edge-to-Cloud Networks
- Publication: INFOCOM 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Rasoul Behravesh; David Breitgand; Dean H. Lorenz; Danny Raz
- Keywords: Service function chain; Edge-to-cloud; Near-optimal deployment
- Objective: Deployment cost -; Latency -
- Link: arXiv, published version
FlexNF: Flexible Network Function Orchestration for Scalable On-Path Service Chain Serving
- Publication: TON 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jingyu Xiao; Xudong Zuo; Qing Li; Dan Zhao; Hanyu Zhao; Yong Jiang; Jiyong Sun; Bin Chen; Yong Liang; Jie Li
- Keywords: Network function orchestration; Service chaining; On-path serving; Programmable data plane
- Objective: Throughput +; Scalability +
- Link: DOI
QoS and Resource-Aware Security Orchestration and Life Cycle Management
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Miloud Bagaa; Tarik Taleb; Jorge Bernal Bernabe; Antonio Skarmeta
- Keywords: Chaining; Life Cycle Management; Security
- Objective: Cost -; delay -
- Link: DOI
Slicing-based Reliable Resource Orchestration for Secure Software Defined Edge-Cloud Computing Systems
- Publication: IoTJ 2022 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Jianhang Tang; Jiangtian Nie; Zehui Xiong; Jun Zhao; Yang Zhang; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Chaining; IoT; Network Slice
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
A Scalable Stateful Approach for Virtual Security Functions Orchestration
- Publication: TPDS 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Niloofar Moradi; Alireza Shameli-Sendi; Alireza Khajouei
- Keywords: Chaining; Scalable
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Combined Stateful Classification and Session Splicing for High-Speed NFV Service Chaining
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tom Barbette; Cyril Soldani; Laurent Mathy
- Keywords: Chaining; High-Speed
- Objective: Speed +
- Link: DOI
FlexNF: Flexible Network Function Orchestration on the Programmable Data Plane
- Publication: IWQoS 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Hanyu Zhao; Qing Li; Jingpu Duan; Yong Jiang; Kai Liu
- Keywords: Chaining; Programmable Data Plane
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
Leveraging Network Functions Virtualization Orchestrators to Achieve Software-Defined Access Control in the Clouds
- Publication: TDSC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Montida Pattaranantakul; Ruan He; Zonghua Zhang; Ahmed Meddahi; Ping Wang
- Keywords: Chaining; Security
- Objective: Throughput +
- Link: DOI
Log Management in NFV Service Orchestration
- Publication: SECON 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Engin Zeydan; Jorge Baranda; Josep Mangues-Bafalluy; Ricardo Martínez; Luca Vettori
- Keywords: Chaining; Log
- Objective: Log
- Link: DOI
On Cross-domain Service Function Chain orchestration: An architectural framework
- Publication: CN 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Nassima Toumi; Olivier Bernier; Djamal-Eddine Meddour; Adlen Ksentini
- Keywords: Chaining; Multi-domain
- Objective: Framework
- Link: DOI
Toward a Real Deployment of Network Services Orchestration and Configuration Convergence Framework for 5G Network Slices
- Publication: IEEE Network 2021 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Ibrahim Afolabi; Miloud Bagaa; Walid Boumezer; Tarik Taleb
- Keywords: Chaining; Deployment; Joint; Network Slice; Distributed
- Objective: Framework
- Link: DOI
Toward Optimal Partial Parallelization for Service Function Chaining
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: I-Chieh Lin; Yu-Hsuan Yeh; Kate Ching-Ju Lin
- Keywords: Chaining; Parallelization
- Objective: Latency -; Parallelization +
- Link: DOI
Dynamic Resource Provisioning of a Scalable E2E Network Slicing Orchestration System
- Publication: TMC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ibrahim Afolabi; Jonathan Prados-Garzon; Miloud Bagaa; Tarik Taleb; Pablo Ameigeiras
- Keywords: Chaining; Dynamic
- Link: DOI
pSMART: A lightweight, privacy-aware service function chain orchestration in multi-domain NFV/SDN
- Publication: CN 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Kalpana D. Joshi; Kotaro Kataoka
- Keywords: Chaining; Multi-domain; Privacy
- Objective: Utilize less sensitive information; to reduce privacy and security risks
- Link: DOI
Towards Latency Optimization in Hybrid Service Function Chain Composition and Embedding
- Publication: INFOCOM 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Danyang Zheng; Chengzong Peng; Xueting Liao; Ling Tian; Guangchun Luo; Xiaojun Cao
- Keywords: Chaining; Deployment; HSFCE (Hybrid SFC composition and Embedding); Latency-aware; Betweenness Centrality
- Objective: Latency
- Link: DOI
Enabling Heterogeneous Network Function Chaining
- Publication: TPDS 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Lin Cui; Fung Po Tso; Song Guo; Weijia Jia; Kaimin Wei; Wei Zhao
- Keywords: Chaining; Heterogeneous
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
VirtualEdge: Multi-Domain Resource Orchestration and Virtualization in Cellular Edge Computing
- Publication: ICDCS 2019 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Qiang Liu; Tao Han
- Keywords: Chaining; Deployment; Multi-Domain
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI

3.3 Deployment

PAAP: A Graph-Based VNF Deployment Framework for Embedding Bidirectional SFC in Mobile Edge Networks
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yuhao Xie; Dehui Ou; Zhen Zhang; Yuhui Deng; Geyong Min; Lin Cui; Zhijie Wang
- Keywords: Bidirectional service function chain; VNF deployment; Mobile edge network; Graph embedding; User mobility
- Objective: Resource utilization +; Embedding cost -; Service latency -
- Link: DOI
VMR-STAG Based Online SFC Orchestration in Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yepeng Liu; Ran Zhang; Jiang Liu; Ninghan Sun; Xinyuan Zhang
- Keywords: Space-terrestrial integrated network; Online SFC orchestration; Time-aggregated graph; Dynamic topology; Multi-resource storage
- Objective: Acceptance ratio +; Blocking rate -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
AoRA: AI-on-RAN for Backhaul-free Edge Inference
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Siyavushkhon Kholmatov; Seongsik Cho; Kyunghan Lee; Song Chong
- Keywords: AI-on-RAN; Edge inference; RAN compute; Accelerator sharing; Backhaul-free execution
- Objective: Inference latency -; RAN resource utilization +; Backhaul traffic -
- Link: DOI
GreenRAN: A Channel-Aware Green O-RAN Framework for NextG Mobile Systems
- Publication: INFOCOM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Chaoqun You; Xingqiu He; Yao Sun; Gang Feng; Tony Q. S. Quek
- Keywords: O-RAN; Radio unit sleep control; CU-DU placement; Workload consolidation; Channel-aware scheduling
- Objective: Power consumption -; QoS violations -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
Joint Dynamic VNF Placement and Delay and Jitter Aware Multicast Routing in NFV-Enabled SDNs
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Liang Liu; Siyuan Tan; Songtao Guo; Guiyan Liu; Hao Feng
- Keywords: NFV-enabled SDN; Dynamic VNF placement; Multicast routing; Service function tree; Delay and jitter
- Objective: End-to-end delay -; Jitter -; Routing cost -
- Link: DOI
O-RAN Intelligence Orchestration Framework for Quality-Driven xApp Deployment and Sharing
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Federico Mungari; Corrado Puligheddu; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
- Keywords: O-RAN; xApp orchestration; xApp sharing; Multi-layer graph; Energy-aware deployment
- Objective: Deployed services +; Energy consumption -; Resource sharing +
- Link: DOI
Provable Approximation Algorithms for Online Traffic-Sensitive SFC Deployment
- Publication: TON 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yingling Mao; Xiaojun Shang; Yuanyuan Yang
- Keywords: NFV; Online SFC deployment; Traffic-sensitive placement; Flow routing; Approximation algorithm
- Objective: Resource cost -; Network latency -; Competitive ratio +
- Link: DOI
Provably Efficient Service Function Chain Embedding and Protection in Edge Networks
- Publication: TON 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Danyang Zheng; Xiaojun Cao
- Keywords: Service function chain; Edge network; Reliable embedding; Backup path; Approximation algorithm
- Objective: Resource consumption -; Reliability +; Embedding cost -
- Link: DOI
Service Function Chain Deployment With VNF-Dependent Software Migration in Multi-Domain Networks
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yuhan Zhang; Ran Wang; Jie Hao; Qiang Wu; Yidan Teng; Ping Wang; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Service function chain; VNF migration; Multi-domain network; SDN; NFV
- Objective: Deployment cost -; Migration overhead -; End-to-end latency -
- Link: DOI
Small-scale LEO Satellite Networking for Global-scale Demands
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yuanjie Li; Yimei Chen; Jiabo Yang; Jinyao Zhang; Bowen Sun; Lixin Liu; Hewu Li; Jianping Wu; Zeqi Lai; Qian Wu; Jun Liu
- Keywords: LEO satellite network; Software-defined networking; Supply-demand matching; Constellation design; Network orchestration
- Objective: Constellation size -; Demand coverage +; Capital cost -
- Link: DOI
SPAVM: A SFC Placement and VNF Migration Framework for VNF Instance Reuse in Vehicle-Infrastructure Collaboration
- Publication: TSC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Shihong Hu; Kaixin Zhang; Zhihao Qu; Baoliu Ye
- Keywords: Service function chain; VNF migration; VNF instance reuse; Vehicular edge network; Vehicle-infrastructure collaboration
- Objective: Delay -; Operating cost -; VNF reuse +
- Link: DOI
Adaptive Network Management Service Based on Control Relation Graph for Software-Defined LEO Satellite Networks in 6G
- Publication: TSC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Long Chen; Feilong Tang; Xu Li; Jiacheng Liu; Yanmin Zhu; Jiadi Yu
- Keywords: Software-defined LEO satellite network; Controller placement; Controller assignment; Control relation graph
- Objective: Management cost -; Control latency -; Load imbalance -
- Link: DOI
CloudRIC: Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Virtualization with Shared Heterogeneous Computing
- Publication: MobiCom 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Leonardo Lo Schiavo; Gines Garcia-Aviles; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Marco Gramaglia; Marco Fiore; Albert Banchs; Xavier Costa-Perez
- Keywords: O-RAN; Virtualized RAN; Heterogeneous computing; GPU sharing; O-Cloud
- Objective: Resource utilization +; Deadline violations -
- Link: DOI
Efficient Deployment of Partial Parallelized Service Function Chains in CPU+DPU-Based Heterogeneous NFV Platforms
- Publication: TMC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ran Wang; Xue Yu; Qiang Wu; Changyan Yi; Ping Wang; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Partial parallelization; Service function chain; CPU; DPU; Heterogeneous NFV
- Objective: Deployment cost -; End-to-end delay -
- Link: DOI
Ant Colony based Online Learning Algorithm for Service Function Chain Deployment
- Publication: INFOCOM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yingling Mao; Xiaojun Shang; Yuanyuan Yang
- Keywords: Service function chain; Online deployment; Ant colony optimization; Resource allocation
- Link: DOI
ClickINC: In-network Computing as a Service in Heterogeneous Programmable Data-center Networks
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Wenquan Xu; Zijian Zhang; Yong Feng; Haoyu Song; Zhikang Chen; Wenfei Wu; Guyue Liu; Yinchao Zhang; Shuxin Liu; Zerui Tian; Bin Liu
- Keywords: In-network computing; Programmable network; Program deployment; Program placement; Heterogeneous devices
- Link: arXiv, published version
Collaborative Orchestration of Multi-Domain Edges From a Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) Perspective
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Nina Slamnik-Kriještorac; Girma M. Yilma; Marco Liebsch; F. Zarrar Yousaf; Johann M. Marquez-Barja
- Keywords: 5G; NFV; Multi-domain edge; Collaborative orchestration; Service deployment
- Link: DOI
Compiling Service Function Chains via Fine-Grained Composition in the Programmable Data Plane
- Publication: TSC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiaoquan Zhang; Lin Cui; Fung Po Tso; Weijia Jia
- Keywords: Service function chain; Programmable data plane; Fine-grained composition; Program placement; Resource constraints
- Link: DOI
Energy-Aware Service Function Chaining Embedding in NFV Networks
- Publication: TSC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Rongping Lin; Liu He; Shan Luo; Moshe Zukerman
- Keywords: NFV; Service function chain; Energy-aware embedding; Hierarchical resource allocation
- Link: DOI
Exploring the Impact of Critical Programmability on Controller Placement for Software-Defined Wide Area Networks
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Songshi Dou; Li Qi; Chao Yao; Zehua Guo
- Keywords: Software-defined WAN; Controller placement; Critical programmability; Control plane
- Link: DOI

Earlier papers (101)

Flexible Offloading of Service Function Chains to Programmable Switches
- Publication: TSC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Junte Ma; Sihao Xie; Jin Zhao
- Keywords: Service function chain; Programmable switch; Offloading; Programmable data plane
- Link: DOI
In-network Placement of Reusable Computing Tasks in an SDN-based Network Edge
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Marica Amadeo; Claudia Campolo; Gianmarco Lia; Antonella Molinaro; Giuseppe Ruggeri
- Keywords: Software-defined networking; Edge computing; In-network computing; Task placement; Compute reuse
- Link: DOI
Optimized Controller Provisioning in Software-Defined LEO Satellite Networks
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xu Li; Feilong Tang; Luoyi Fu; Jiadi Yu; Long Chen; Jiacheng Liu; Yanmin Zhu; Laurence T. Yang
- Keywords: Software-defined satellite network; LEO; Controller provisioning; Controller placement; Online optimization
- Link: DOI
RED: Distributed Program Deployment for Resource-aware Programmable Switches
- Publication: INFOCOM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xingxin Jia; Fuliang Li; Songlin Chen; Chengxi Gao; Pengfei Wang; Xingwei Wang
- Keywords: Programmable switch; Distributed program deployment; Resource awareness; In-network computing
- Link: DOI
Revenue Maximizing Online Service Function Chain Deployment in Multi-Tier Computing Network
- Publication: TPDS 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Haolin Liu; Saiqin Long; Zhetao Li; Yu Fu; Yong Zuo; Xinglin Zhang
- Keywords: Service function chain; Multi-tier computing; Online deployment; Revenue maximization; Resource allocation
- Link: DOI
RQAP: Resource and QoS Aware Placement of Service Function Chains in NFV-Enabled Networks
- Publication: TSC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Haojun Huang; Jialin Tian; Hao Yin; Geyong Min; Dapeng Wu; Wang Miao
- Keywords: NFV; Service function chain; Resource-aware placement; QoS-aware placement
- Link: DOI
SFT-Box: An Online Approach for Minimizing the Embedding Cost of Multiple Hybrid SFCs
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xu Lin; Deke Guo; Yulong Shen; Guoming Tang; Bangbang Ren; Ming Xu
- Keywords: Deployment; Online algorithm
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Space Information Network With Joint Virtual Network Function Deployment and Flow Routing Strategy With QoS Constraints
- Publication: JSAC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Huiting Yang; Wei Liu; Jiandong Li; Tony Q. S. Quek
- Keywords: Space information network; Virtual network function; Joint deployment and routing; QoS
- Link: DOI
CoShare: An Efficient Approach for Redundancy Allocation in NFV
- Publication: TON 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yordanos Tibebu Woldeyohannes; Besmir Tola; Yuming Jiang; K. K. Ramakrishnan
- Keywords: Deployment; Redundancy Allocation; Reliability
- Objective: Reliability -
- Link: DOI
Delay and Reliability-Constrained VNF Placement on Mobile and Volatile 5G Infrastructure
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Balázs Németh; Nuria Molner; Jorge Martín-Pérez; Carlos J. Bernardos; Antonio de la Oliva; Balázs Sonkoly
- Keywords: Deployment; Mobile; 5G Network
- Objective: Placement cost -; Reliability -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Energy and Cost Efficient Resource Allocation for Blockchain-Enabled NFV
- Publication: TSC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Shiva Kazemi Taskou; Mehdi Rasti; Pedro H. J. Nardelli
- Keywords: Deployment; Blockchain-Enabled; HuRA (Hungarian-based Resource Allocation)
- Objective: Energy consumption -; Placement cost -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Latency and Mobility-Aware Service Function Chain Placement in 5G Networks
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Davit Harutyunyan; Nashid Shahriar; Raouf Boutaba; Roberto Riggio
- Keywords: Deployment; Latency; Mobility; Edge computing
- Objective: Latency -; Placement cost -; Energy consumption -; QoS +
- Link: DOI
Maximum Flow Routing Strategy for Space Information Network With Service Function Constraints
- Publication: TWC 2022 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Huiting Yang; Wei Liu; Hongyan Li; Jiandong Li
- Keywords: Deployment; Commodity maximum flow
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Multi-Resource VNF Deployment in a Heterogeneous Cloud
- Publication: TC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jiaqi Zheng; Zixuan Zhang; Qiufang Ma; Xiaofeng Gao; Chen Tian; Guihai Chen
- Keywords: Deployment; Multi-Resource; Heterogeneous Cloud
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Online Reliability-Enhanced Virtual Network Services Provisioning in Fault-Prone Mobile Edge Cloud
- Publication: TWC 2022 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yu Qiu; Junbin Liang; Victor C. M. Leung; Xu Wu; Xia Deng
- Keywords: Deployment; Reliability; approximation algorithm
- Objective: Placement cost -; Throughput +; Reliability +
- Link: DOI
Online Service Function Chain Placement for Cost-effectiveness and Network Congestion Control
- Publication: TC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiaojun Shang; Zhenhua Liu; Yuanyuan Yang
- Keywords: Deployment; Routing; Online candidate path selection (OCPS)
- Objective: Latency -; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Optimal Embedding of Aggregated Service Function Tree
- Publication: TPDS 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Deke Guo; Bangbang Ren; Guoming Tang; Lailong Luo; Tao Chen; Xiaoming Fu
- Keywords: Deployment; aggregated service function tree; approximation algorithm
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Pricing and Resource Allocation Optimization for IoT Fog Computing and NFV: An EPEC and Matching Based Perspective
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Neetu Raveendran; Huaqing Zhang; Lingyang Song; Li-Chun Wang; Choong Seon Hong; Zhu Han
- Keywords: Deployment; Pricing
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Profit-aware Edge Server Placement
- Publication: IoTJ 2022 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Yuanzhe Li; Ao Zhou; Xiao Ma; Shangguang Wang
- Keywords: Deployment; Edge
- Objective: Energy consumption -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Reducing the Service Function Chain Backup Cost Over the Edge and Cloud by a Self-Adapting Scheme
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiaojun Shang; Yaodong Huang; Zhenhua Liu; Yuanyuan Yang
- Keywords: Deployment; Edge; Cloud; Reliability; Backup
- Objective: Placement cost -; Reliability +; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Request Reliability Augmentation with Service Function Chain Requirements in Mobile Edge Computing
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Weifa Liang; Yu Ma; Wenzheng Xu; Zichuan Xu; Xiaohua Jia; Wanlei Zhou
- Keywords: Deployment; Reliability
- Objective: Reliability +
- Link: DOI
A novel evaluation function for higher acceptance rates and more profitable metaheuristic-based online virtual network embedding
- Publication: CN 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Christian Aguilar-Fuster; Javier Rubio-Loyola
- Keywords: Deployment; VNE; Evaluation functions; Fitness landscape
- Objective: Revenue-to-cost ratio +
- Link: DOI
Delay-Aware Virtual Network Function Placement and Routing in Edge Clouds
- Publication: TMC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Song Yang; Fan Li; Stojan Trajanovski; Xu Chen; Yu Wang; Xiaoming Fu
- Keywords: Deployment; Latency
- Objective: Latency -
- Link: DOI
Distributed Virtual Network Embedding System With Historical Archives and Set-Based Particle Swarm Optimization
- Publication: TSMC 2021 (CCF-B; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: An Song; Wei-Neng Chen; Tianlong Gu; Huaqiang Yuan; Sam Kwong; Jun Zhang
- Keywords: Deployment; Distributed; Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
Dynamic Network Function Provisioning to Enable Network in Box for Industrial Applications
- Publication: TII 2021 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Gang Sun; Zhu Xu; Hongfang Yu; Victor Chang
- Keywords: Deployment; Path Selection
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Dynamic VNF Placement, Resource Allocation and Traffic Routing in 5G
- Publication: CN 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Morteza Golkarifard; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini; Francesco Malandrino; Ali Movaghar
- Keywords: Deployment; Routing
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Efficient Virtual Network Embedding of Cloud-Based Data Center Networks into Optical Networks
- Publication: TPDS 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Weibei Fan; Fu Xiao; Xiaobai Chen; Lei Cui; Shui Yu
- Keywords: Deployment; Optical Networks; Integer Linear Programming (ILP)
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Energy-Aware Service Function Chain Embedding in Edge–Cloud Environments for IoT Applications
- Publication: IoTJ 2021 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Nguyen Huu Thanh; Nguyen Trung Kien; Ngo Van Hoa; Truong Thu Huong; Florian Wamser; Tobias Hossfeld
- Keywords: Deployment; IoT; Edge; Energy
- Objective: Energy consumption -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Incremental Server Deployment for Software-Defined NFV-Enabled Networks
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jianchun Liu; Hongli Xu; Gongming Zhao; Chen Qian; Xingpeng Fan; Xuwei Yang; He Huang
- Keywords: Incremental Server Deployment
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Joint Placement and Allocation of VNF Nodes With Budget and Capacity Constraints
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Gamal Sallam; Bo Ji
- Keywords: Deployment; Relaxation
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Joint SFC Deployment and Resource Management in Heterogeneous Edge for Latency Minimization
- Publication: TPDS 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yu Liu; Xiaojun Shang; Yuanyuan Yang
- Keywords: Deployment; Scheduling; Joint; Heterogeneous; Edge; Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Joint Virtual Network Topology Design and Embedding for Cybertwin-Enabled 6G Core Networks
- Publication: IoTJ 2021 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Junling Li; Weisen Shi; Qiang Ye; Shan Zhang; Weihua Zhuang; Xuemin Shen
- Keywords: Deployment; Joint; Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Latency-Sensitive Edge/Cloud Serverless Dynamic Deployment Over Telemetry-Based Packet-Optical Network
- Publication: JSAC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: István Pelle; Francesco Paolucci; Balázs Sonkoly; Filippo Cugini
- Keywords: Deployment; Latency; Optical Network
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Online Adaptive Interference-Aware VNF Deployment and Migration for 5G Network Slice
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Qixia Zhang; Fangming Liu; Chaobing Zeng
- Keywords: Deployment; Scheduling; Joint
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Migration cost -
- Link: DOI
Optimal Virtual Network Embeddings for Tree Topologies
- Publication: SPAA 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Aleksander Figiel; Leon Kellerhals; Rolf Niedermeier; Matthias Rost; Stefan Schmid; Philipp Zschoche
- Keywords: Deployment; VNE; parameterized complexity
- Objective: Running time -
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
Prioritized Deployment of Dynamic Service Function Chains
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Behrooz Farkiani; Bahador Bakhshi; S. Ali MirHassani; Tim Wauters; Bruno Volckaert; Filip De Turck
- Keywords: Deployment; Prioritized
- Objective: Latency -; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Reliable Placement of Service Function Chains and Virtual Monitoring Functions With Minimal Cost in Softwarized 5G Networks
- Publication: TNSM 2021 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Prabhu Kaliyammal Thiruvasagam; Abhishek Chakraborty; Abin Mathew; C. Siva Ram Murthy
- Keywords: Deployment; VNE; Optical Network; Data Center
- Objective: Reduce complexity of the network topology by using the parallel transmission characteristics of optical fiber
- Link: DOI
Service Placement and Request Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications in Edge Clouds
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Vajiheh Farhadi; Fidan Mehmeti; Ting He; Thomas F. La Porta; Hana Khamfroush; Shiqiang Wang; Kevin S. Chan; Konstantinos Poularakis
- Keywords: Deployment; Scheduling; Joint; Mobile Edge; Mobile Edge Computing
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Migration cost -; Cost -
- Link: DOI, related DOI
Sova: A Software-Defined Autonomic Framework for Virtual Network Allocations
- Publication: TPDS 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zhiyong Ye; Yang Wang; Shuibing He; Chengzhong Xu; Xian-He Sun
- Keywords: Deployment; VNFM; SDN
- Objective: Optimize the network allocation between different services by coordinating virtual dynamic SR-IOV and virtual machine live migration in autonomic way
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Function Allocation in Service Function Chains Using Backups With Availability Schedule
- Publication: TNSM 2021 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Rui Kang; Fujun He; Eiji Oki
- Keywords: Deployment; Availability Schedule; Reliability
- Objective: Reliability +
- Link: DOI
VNF-Based Service Provision in Software Defined LEO Satellite Networks
- Publication: TWC 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Ziye Jia; Min Sheng; Jiandong Li; Di Zhou; Zhu Han
- Keywords: Deployment; Branch-and-price; Beam search
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
A Constructive Particle Swarm Optimizer for Virtual Network Embedding
- Publication: TNSE 2020 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: An Song; Wei-Neng Chen; Tianlong Gu; Huaxiang Zhang; Jun Zhang
- Keywords: Deployment; CPSO (Constructive Particle Swarm Optimizer)
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
A Virtual Network Customization Framework for Multicast Services in NFV-Enabled Core Networks
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Omar Alhussein; Phu Thinh Do; Qiang Ye; Junling Li; Weisen Shi; Weihua Zhuang; Xuemin Shen; Xu Li; Jaya Rao
- Keywords: Deployment; Multipath routing; Joint
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
An Online Algorithm for VNF Service Chain Scaling in Datacenters
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ziyue Luo; Chuan Wu
- Keywords: Deployment; ILP (Integer Linear Program); Regularization; Rounding; Scheduling; Scaling
- Objective: Operating cost -; Placement cost -; Deployment cost -
- Link: DOI, PDF
Approximation algorithms for data-intensive service chain embedding
- Publication: MobiHoc 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Konstantinos Poularakis; Jaime Llorca; Antonia M. Tulino; Leandros Tassiulas
- Keywords: Deployment; Data-intensive
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
Clustered Virtualized Network Functions Resource Allocation based on Context-Aware Grouping in 5G Edge Networks
- Publication: TMC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Sooeun Song; Changsung Lee; Hyoungjun Cho; Goeun Lim; Jong-Moon Chung
- Keywords: Deployment; Latency; Mobility; Edge computing
- Objective: Mobility +
- Link: DOI
Congestion-Aware and Energy-Aware Virtual Network Embedding
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Minh Pham; Doan B. Hoang; Zenon Chaczko
- Keywords: Deployment; relaxed LP (linear Program); Congestion; Energy; SR (Segment Routing)
- Objective: Placement cost -; Energy Consumption -; Network congestion -
- Link: DOI
Cost-Efficient VNF Placement and Scheduling in Public Cloud Networks
- Publication: TCOM 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Tao Gao; Xin Li; Yu Wu; Weixia Zou; Shanguo Huang; Massimo Tornatore; Biswanath Mukherjee
- Keywords: Deployment; Scheduling; Cost Efficiency; Public Cloud
- Link: DOI
Efficient Algorithms for Delay-Aware NFV-Enabled Multicasting in Mobile Edge Clouds With Resource Sharing
- Publication: TPDS 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Haozhe Ren; Zichuan Xu; Weifa Liang; Qiufen Xia; Pan Zhou; Omer F. Rana; Alex Galis; Guowei Wu
- Keywords: Deployment; Latency
- Objective: Latency -
- Link: DOI
Joint Availability- and Traffic-aware Placement of Parallelized Service Chain in NFV-enabled Data Center
- Publication: ICWS 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Meng Wang; Bo Cheng; Junliang Chen
- Keywords: Deployment; Parallelization; Multi-flow backup; Hybrid Placement Algorithm (HPA)
- Objective: Latency -; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Joint Resource Allocation and Routing for Service Function Chaining with In-Subnetwork Processing
- Publication: ICASSP 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Navid Reyhanian; Hamid Farmanbar; Soheil Mohajer; Zhi-Quan Luo
- Keywords: Deployment; Routing
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Latency-aware VNF Chain Deployment with Efficient Resource Reuse at Network Edge
- Publication: INFOCOM 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Panpan Jin; Xincai Fei; Qixia Zhang; Fangming Liu; Bo Li
- Keywords: Deployment; MILP (Mixed-Integer Linear Programming); Latency; CDFSA (constrained depth-first search algorithm)
- Objective: Placement cost -; E2E Latency -
- Link: DOI, PDF
Mobility-Aware and Delay-Sensitive Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge-Cloud Networks
- Publication: TMC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yu Ma; Weifa Liang; Jing Li; Xiaohua Jia; Song Guo
- Keywords: Deployment; Mobility; Latency
- Objective: Latency -; Mobility +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Optimal Virtual Network Function Deployment for 5G Network Slicing in a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
- Publication: TWC 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Antonio De Domenico; Ya-Feng Liu; Wei Yu
- Keywords: Deployment; ILP (Integer Linear Programming); Network Slicing
- Objective: Lead to high resource utilization efficiency and large gains in terms of the number of supported VNF chains
- Link: DOI
Prune and Plant: Efficient Placement and Parallelism of Virtual Network Functions
- Publication: TC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Wei Bao; Dong Yuan; Bing Bing Zhou; Albert Y. Zomaya
- Keywords: Deployment; Parallelization; Prune and Plant
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Reliability Aware Service Placement Using a Viterbi-Based Algorithm
- Publication: TNSM 2020 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Mohammad Karimzadeh-Farshbafan; Vahid Shah-Mansouri; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Deployment; MICP (mixed integer convex programming); Viterbi-based
- Objective: Minimize the cost of resources of the InPs and maximize the reliability of the service
- Link: DOI
Reliability-Aware Virtualized Network Function Services Provisioning in Mobile Edge Computing
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Meitian Huang; Weifa Liang; Xiaojun Shen; Yu Ma; Haibin Kan
- Keywords: Deployment; Reliability-aware; approximation algorithms; DP (dynamic programming); MEC (mobile edge computing)
- Objective: Maximize the network throughput
- Link: DOI
Service Function Path Provisioning With Topology Aggregation in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Boyuan Yan; Yongli Zhao; Xiaosong Yu; Yajie Li; Sabidur Rahman; Yongqi He; Xiangjun Xin; Jie Zhang
- Keywords: Deployment; Multi-domain
- Link: DOI
SFC-Based Service Provisioning for Reconfigurable Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Guangchao Wang; Sheng Zhou; Shan Zhang; Zhisheng Niu; Xuemin Shen
- Keywords: Deployment; Routing; Joint; Space-Air-Ground
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Embedding With Guaranteed Connectivity Under Multiple Substrate Link Failures
- Publication: TCOM 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Nashid Shahriar; Reaz Ahmed; Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury; Md Mashrur Alam Khan; Raouf Boutaba; Jeebak Mitra; Feng Zeng
- Keywords: Placement; Deployment; Connectivity; Fault Tolerance; Redundancy
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Adaptive Interference-Aware VNF Placement for Service-Customized 5G Network Slices
- Publication: INFOCOM 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Qixia Zhang; Fangming Liu; Chaobing Zeng
- Keywords: Deployment; Interference
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
Automated Function Placement and Online Optimization of Network Functions Virtualization
- Publication: TCOM 2019 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Xiaojing Chen; Wei Ni; Iain B. Collings; Xin Wang; Shugong Xu
- Keywords: Deployment; Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
DYVINE: Fitness-Based Dynamic Virtual Network Embedding in Cloud Computing
- Publication: JSAC 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Chinmaya Kumar Dehury; Prasan Kumar Sahoo
- Keywords: Deployment; Dynamic; Multipath routing
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Efficiently Embedding Service Function Chains with Dynamic Virtual Network Function Placement in Geo-Distributed Cloud System
- Publication: TPDS 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jianing Pei; Peilin Hong; Kaiping Xue; Defang Li
- Keywords: Deployment; Distributed; Binary Integer Programming (BIP)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Energy-Efficient Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications in Virtualized Cellular Networks with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
- Publication: TMC 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Meng Li; F. Richard Yu; Pengbo Si; Yanhua Zhang
- Keywords: Deployment; Mobile; Edge; Energy; partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP)
- Objective: Placement cost -; Energy consumption -
- Link: DOI
Multi-Timescale Online Optimization of Network Function Virtualization for Service Chaining
- Publication: TMC 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiaojing Chen; Wei Ni; Tianyi Chen; Iain B. Collings; Xin Wang; Ren Ping Liu; Georgios B. Giannakis
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Network Function Deployment with Balanced Server and Link Resources in Tree Topologies
- Publication: SECON 2019 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yang Chen; Jie Wu
- Keywords: Deployment; Tree Topology
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Network Topology Mapping From Partial Virtual Coordinates and Graph Geodesics
- Publication: TON 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Anura P. Jayasumana; Randy Paffenroth; Gunjan Mahindre; Sridhar Ramasamy; Kelum Gajamannage
- Keywords: Deployment; Coordinates
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Octans: Optimal Placement of Service Function Chains in Many-Core Systems
- Publication: INFOCOM 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zhilong Zheng; Jun Bi; Heng Yu; Haiping Wang; Chen Sun; Hongxin Hu; Jianping Wu
- Keywords: Deployment; Many-Core Systems
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Embedding Approximations: Leveraging Randomized Rounding
- Publication: TON 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Matthias Rost; Stefan Schmid
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Embedding with Path-based Latency Guarantees in Elastic Optical Networks
- Publication: ICNP 2019 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Sepehr Taeb; Nashid Shahriar; Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury; Massimo Tornatore; Raouf Boutaba; Jeebak Mitra; Mahdi Hemmati
- Keywords: Deployment; Optical Networks; Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Deploying Chains of Virtual Network Functions: On the Relation Between Link and Server Usage
- Publication: TON 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tung-Wei Kuo; Bang-Heng Liou; Kate Ching-Ju Lin; Ming-Jer Tsai
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Placement cost -; Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI, related DOI
Enabling Efficient Network Service Function Chain Deployment on Heterogeneous Server Platform
- Publication: HPCA 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yang Hu; Tao Li
- Keywords: Deployment; Graph-partition; Reorganizing
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Enhancing Metaheuristic-Based Online Embedding in Network Virtualization Environments
- Publication: TNSM 2018 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Javier Rubio-Loyola; Christian Aguilar-Fuster; Gregorio Toscano-Pulido; Rashid Mijumbi; Joan Serrat-Fernández
- Keywords: Deployment; VNE; Fitness Function
- Objective: Revenue-to-cost ratio +
- Link: DOI
Joint Placement and Routing of Network Function Chains in Data Centers
- Publication: INFOCOM 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Linqi Guo; John Pang; Anwar Walid
- Keywords: Deployment; Routing; Joint; Data Center
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Joint VNF Placement and CPU Allocation in 5G
- Publication: INFOCOM 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Satyam Agarwal; Francesco Malandrino; Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini; S. De
- Keywords: Deployment; Joint
- Objective: Joint optimal decisions concerning the placement of Scheduling across the physical hosts for realizing the services; and the allocation of CPU resources in Scheduling sharing a host
- Link: DOI
LVRM: On the Design of Efficient Link Based Virtual Resource Management Algorithm for Cloud Platforms
- Publication: TPDS 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Prasan Kumar Sahoo; Chinmaya Kumar Dehury; Bharadwaj Veeravalli
- Keywords: Deployment; Cloud
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Network Function Virtualization in Dynamic Networks: A Stochastic Perspective
- Publication: JSAC 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiangle Cheng; Yulei Wu; Geyong Min; Albert Y. Zomaya
- Keywords: Deployment; Stochastic; Admission Control; decomposition method; Dynamic
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
Optimal Network Service Chain Provisioning
- Publication: TON 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Nicolas Huin; Brigitte Jaumard; Frédéric Giroire
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Provably Efficient Algorithms for Placement of Service Function Chains with Ordering Constraints
- Publication: INFOCOM 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Andrea Tomassilli; Frédéric Giroire; Nicolas Huin; Stéphane Pérennes
- Keywords: Deployment; Equivalence with Hitting Set; Naive and Faster Greedy; LP-Rounding; DP (Dynamic Programming)
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI, PDF
Rethinking Virtual Network Embedding in Reconfigurable Networks
- Publication: SECON 2018 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Max Curran; Md. Shaifur Rahman; Himanshu Gupta; Vyas Sekar
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Function Deployment in Tree-Structured Networks
- Publication: ICNP 2018 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yang Chen; Jie Wu; Bo Ji
- Keywords: Deployment; Tree Topology
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Function Placement Considering Resource Optimization and SFC Requests in Cloud Datacenter
- Publication: TPDS 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Defang Li; Peilin Hong; Kaiping Xue; Jianing Pei
- Keywords: Deployment; Data Center
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Survivability Through Joint Spare Capacity Allocation and Embedding
- Publication: JSAC 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Nashid Shahriar; Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury; Reaz Ahmed; Aimal Khan; Siavash Fathi; Raouf Boutaba; Jeebak Mitra; Liu Liu
- Keywords: Deployment; Reliability
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Reliability +
- Link: DOI
vSPACE: VNF Simultaneous Placement, Admission Control and Embedding
- Publication: JSAC 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Mohammad Ali Tahmasbi Nejad; Saeedeh Parsaeefard; Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali; Toktam Mahmoodi; Babak Hossein Khalaj
- Keywords: Deployment; Joint; Admission Control; Splittable VNF; Multipath routing
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
An Approach for Service Function Chain Routing and Virtual Function Network Instance Migration in Network Function Virtualization Architectures
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Vincenzo Eramo; Emanuele Miucci; Mostafa Ammar; Francesco Giacinto Lavacca
- Keywords: Deployment; Scheduling; Joint; energy
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Energy consumption -
- Link: DOI
Congestion-Aware Embedding of Heterogeneous Bandwidth Virtual Data Centers With Hose Model Abstraction
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Fangfang Yan; Tony T. Lee; Weisheng Hu
- Keywords: Deployment; Congestion
- Objective: Placement cost -; Congestion -
- Link: DOI
Distributed Service Function Chaining
- Publication: JSAC 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Milad Ghaznavi; Nashid Shahriar; Shahin Kamali; Reaz Ahmed; Raouf Boutaba
- Keywords: Deployment; Distributed
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Cost -
- Link: DOI
Joint Optimization of Chain Placement and Request Scheduling for Network Function Virtualization
- Publication: ICDCS 2017 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Qixia Zhang; Yikai Xiao; Fangming Liu; John C.S. Lui; Jian Guo; Tao Wang
- Keywords: Deployment; Scheduling; Joint
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Mobility Aware Virtual Network Embedding
- Publication: TMC 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Giorgos Chochlidakis; Vasilis Friderikos
- Keywords: Deployment; Mobility; Distributed
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Mobility +
- Link: DOI
Multi-resource Load Balancing for Virtual Network Functions
- Publication: ICDCS 2017 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Tao Wang; Hong Xu; Fangming Liu
- Keywords: Deployment; Load Balancing; Multi-resource
- Objective: Load Balancing +
- Link: DOI
Online Allocation of Virtual Machines in a Distributed Cloud
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Fang Hao; Murali Kodialam; T. V. Lakshman; Sarit Mukherjee
- Keywords: Deployment; Distributed
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Optimizing Virtual Backup Allocation for Middleboxes
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yossi Kanizo; Ori Rottenstreich; Itai Segall; Jose Yallouz
- Keywords: Deployment; Backup; Reliability
- Objective: Placement cost -; Reliability +
- Link: DOI, related DOI
Reliable Virtual Machine Placement and Routing in Clouds
- Publication: TPDS 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Song Yang; Philipp Wieder; Ramin Yahyapour; Stojan Trajanovski; Xiaoming Fu
- Keywords: Deployment; Routing; Cloud; Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Application of evolutionary mechanism to dynamic Virtual Network Function Placement
- Publication: ICNP 2016 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Mari Otokura; Kenji Leibnitz; Yuki Koizumi; Daichi Kominami; Tetsuya Shimokawa; Masayuki Murata
- Keywords: Placement; Dynamic; Genetic algorithm
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
SLA-NFV: an SLA-aware High Performance Framework for Network Function Virtualization
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2016 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Chen Sun; Jun Bi; Zhilong Zheng; Hongxin Hu
- Keywords: Deployment; Latency
- Objective: Latency +
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
How Hard Can It Be?: Understanding the Complexity of Replica Aware Virtual Cluster Embeddings
- Publication: ICNP 2015 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Carlo Fuerst; Maciej Pacut; Paolo Costa; Stefan Schmid
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Toward Profit-Seeking Virtual Network Embedding Algorithm via Global Resource Capacity
- Publication: INFOCOM 2014 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Long Gong; Yonggang Wen; Zuqing Zhu; Tony Lee
- Keywords: Deployment; GRC (Global Resource Control)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Revenue-to-cost ratio +
- Link: DOI
A Multi-objective Ant Colony System algorithm for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Computing
- Publication: JCSS 2013 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yongqiang Gao; Haibing Guan; Zhengwei Qi; Yang Hou; Liang Liu
- Keywords: Deployment; ACS (Ant Colony System); Multi-objective
- Objective: Placement cost -; Energy consumption -
- Link: DOI
Joint VM Placement and Routing for Data Center Traffic Engineering
- Publication: INFOCOM 2012 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Joe Wenjie Jiang; Tian Lan; Sangtae Ha; Minghua Chen; Mung Chiang
- Keywords: Deployment; Routing; Joint; Markov approximation
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Embedding through Topology Awareness and Optimization
- Publication: CN 2012 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Xiang Cheng; Sen Su; Zhongbao Zhang; Kai Shuang; Fangchun Yang; Yan Luo; Jie Wang
- Keywords: Deployment; PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization); Topology decomposition
- Objective: Placement cost -; Energy consumption -
- Link: DOI, ResearchGate

3.4 Scheduling

Nezha: SmartNIC-based Virtual Switch Load Sharing
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: 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
- Keywords: SmartNIC; Virtual switch; Network function; Load sharing; Remote resource pool
- Objective: Throughput +; SmartNIC utilization +; Load imbalance -
- Link: DOI
Aquifer: Transparent Microsecond-Scale Scheduling for vRAN Workloads
- Publication: TSC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yunshan Jia; Yinmin Zhong; Meng Wang; Jiaqi Gao; Pengyu Zhang; Xuanzhe Liu; Xin Jin
- Keywords: vRAN; Microsecond-scale scheduling; CPU reallocation; Run-to-completion
- Objective: Scheduling latency -; Deadline violations -
- Link: DOI
Automatic Parallelization of Software Network Functions
- Publication: NSDI 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Francisco Pereira; Fernando M. V. Ramos; Luis Pedrosa
- Keywords: Software network functions; Automatic parallelization; Receive Side Scaling; Multi-core processing
- Objective: Throughput +; Parallelization scalability +
- Link: arXiv, usenix.org
O-M3: Real-Time Multi-Cell MIMO Scheduling in 5G O-RAN
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yongce Chen; Y. Thomas Hou; Wenjing Lou; Jeffrey H. Reed; Sastry Kompella
- Keywords: 5G O-RAN; Multi-cell MIMO; Real-time scheduling
- Objective: Throughput +; Scheduling latency -
- Link: DOI
OREO: O-RAN Intelligence Orchestration of xApp-Based Network Services
- Publication: INFOCOM 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Federico Mungari; Corrado Puligheddu; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
- Keywords: O-RAN; xApp; Network service orchestration; Resource contention
- Objective: Service utility +; Resource contention -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Providing UE-Level QoS Support by Joint Scheduling and Orchestration for 5G vRAN
- Publication: INFOCOM 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jiamei Lv; Yi Gao; Zhi Ding; Yuxiang Lin; Xinyun You; Guang Yang; Wei Dong
- Keywords: 5G vRAN; UE-level QoS; Joint scheduling; Resource orchestration
- Objective: QoS violations -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
State Disaggregation for Dynamic Scaling of Network Functions
- Publication: TON 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Fabrício B. Carvalho; Ronaldo A. Ferreira; Ítalo Cunha; Marcos A. M. Vieira; Murali K. Ramanathan
- Keywords: Stateful network functions; State disaggregation; Dynamic scaling; Multi-core processing
- Objective: Scaling time -; Throughput +
- Link: DOI
YinYangRAN: Resource Multiplexing in GPU-Accelerated Virtualized RANs
- Publication: INFOCOM 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Leonardo Lo Schiavo; Jose A. Ayala-Romero; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Marco Fiore; Xavier Costa-Perez
- Keywords: Virtualized RAN; GPU acceleration; Resource multiplexing; Deadline-aware scheduling
- Objective: GPU utilization +; Deadline violations -
- Link: DOI
Nimble: Fast and Safe Migration of Network Functions
- Publication: INFOCOM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Sheng Liu; Michael K. Reiter; Theophilus A. Benson
- Keywords: Network function; Migration; Routing update; Service chaining; Software-defined networking
- Link: DOI
Online Control of Service Function Chainings Across Geo-Distributed Datacenters
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Song Yang; Fan Li; Zhi Zhou; Xu Chen; Yu Wang; Xiaoming Fu
- Keywords: Scheduling; Online Control; Geo-Distributed Datacenters
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
SAFE: Service Availability via Failure Elimination Through VNF Scaling
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Rui Xia; Haipeng Dai; Jiaqi Zheng; Rong Gu; Xiaoyu Wang; Weijun Wang; Guihai Chen
- Keywords: Scheduling; Scaling; Dynamic Programming; Consolidation
- Objective: Number of servers -; Cost -
- Link: DOI
Scheduling Slice Requests in 5G Networks
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Reshma Prasad; Albert Sunny
- Keywords: 5G; Network slicing; Slice reservation; Admission control; Online scheduling
- Link: arXiv, published version
An Efficient Algorithm for Service Function Chains Reconfiguration in Mobile Edge Cloud Networks
- Publication: ICWS 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Biyi Li; Bo Cheng; Junliang Chen
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration; Dynamic Programmingbased
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
HASFC: A MANO-Compliant Framework for Availability Management of Service Chains
- Publication: IEEE Communications Magazine 2021 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Mario Di Mauro; Giovanni Galatro; Maurizio Longo; Fabio Postiglione; Marco Tambasco
- Keywords: Scheduling; Deployment; Reliability
- Objective: Cost -; Reliability +
- Link: DOI
Highly-Efficient Switch Migration for Controller Load Balancing in Elastic Optical Inter-Datacenter Networks
- Publication: JSAC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yong Liu; Huaxi Gu; Fulong Yan; Nicola Calabretta
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration; Data Center
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Joint Resource Optimization and Delay-aware Virtual Network Function Migration in Data Center Networks
- Publication: TNSM 2021 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Biyi Li; Bo Cheng; Xuan Liu; Meng Wang; Yi Yue; Junliang Chen
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration; Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
A Multi-Stage Approach for Virtual Network Function Migration and Service Function Chain Reconfiguration in NFV-enabled Networks
- Publication: ICWS 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Biyi Li; Bo Cheng; Junliang Chen
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration
- Objective: Latency -; Load balancing +
- Link: DOI
A seamless virtualized network functions migration mechanism in mobile edge networks
- Publication: MobiCom 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Biyi Li; Bo Cheng; Yi Yue; Meng Wang; Junliang Chen
- Keywords: Migration
- Objective: Cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
Finedge: A Dynamic Cost-Efficient Edge Resource Management Platform for NFV Network
- Publication: IWQoS 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Miao Li; Qixia Zhang; Fangming Liu
- Keywords: Scheduling
- Objective: QoS +
- Link: DOI
NFVnice: Dynamic Backpressure and Scheduling for NFV Service Chains
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Sameer G. Kulkarni; Wei Zhang; Jinho Hwang; Shriram Rajagopalan; K. K. Ramakrishnan; Timothy Wood; Mayutan Arumaithurai; Xiaoming Fu
- Keywords: Scheduling
- Objective: Energy Consumption -
- Link: DOI

Earlier papers (15)

On Parallel and Hitless vSDN Reconfiguration
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Sicheng Zhao; Xing Wu; Zuqing Zhu
- Keywords: Reconfiguration
- Objective: Parallelism +
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
A multi-criteria decision approach for minimizing the influence of VNF migration
- Publication: CN 2019 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Bo Yi; X. Wang; Min Huang; Anwei Dong
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration
- Objective: Influence -
- Link: DOI
Dynamic Cloud Network Control Under Reconfiguration Delay and Cost
- Publication: TON 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Chang-Heng Wang; Jaime Llorca; Antonia M. Tulino; Tara Javidi
- Keywords: Scheduling; Reconfiguration; Latency
- Objective: Latency -; Cost -
- Link: DOI
Dynamic Network Function Instance Scaling Based on Traffic Forecasting and VNF Placement in Operator Data Centers
- Publication: TPDS 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Hong Tang; Danny Zhou; Duan Chen
- Keywords: Scheduling; Deployment; Scaling; Traffic Forecasting; Data Center
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Network Virtualization with Energy Efficiency Optimization for Wireless Heterogeneous Networks
- Publication: TMC 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tai Manh Ho; Nguyen H. Tran; Long Bao Le; Zhu Han; S.M Ahsan Kazmi; Choong Seon Hong
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration; Heterogeneous
- Objective: Revenue of InP +
- Link: DOI
Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Scheduling on Data Centers with Heterogeneous Bandwidths
- Publication: TPDS 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Daniel Guimaraes Lago; Edmundo R. M. Madeira; Deep Medhi
- Keywords: Scheduling; Energy; Heterogeneous
- Objective: Energy consumption -
- Link: DOI
TerrierTail: Mitigating Tail Latency of Cloud Virtual Machines
- Publication: TPDS 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Esmail Asyabi; SeyedAlireza SanaeeKohroudi; Mohsen Sharifi; Azer Bestavros
- Keywords: Scheduling; Latency
- Objective: Latency -
- Link: DOI
Cluster-Aware Virtual Machine Collaborative Migration in Media Cloud
- Publication: TPDS 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Weizhan Zhang; Yuxuan Chen; Xiang Gao; Zhichao Mo; Qinghua Zheng; Zongqing Lu
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Mobile Edge Cloud Network Design Optimization
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Alberto Ceselli; Marco Premoli; Stefano Secci
- Keywords: Scheduling
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Raccoon: A Novel Network I/O Allocation Framework for Workload-Aware VM Scheduling in Virtual Environments
- Publication: TPDS 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Lingfang Zeng; Yang Wang; Xiaopeng Fan; Chengzhong Xu
- Keywords: Scheduling
- Objective: Latency -
- Link: DOI
Traffic-Aware Virtual Machine Migration in Topology-Adaptive DCN
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yong Cui; Zhenjie Yang; Shihan Xiao; Xin Wang; Shenghui Yan
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration
- Objective: Throughput +; cost -
- Link: DOI
Cache contention aware Virtual Machine placement and migration in cloud datacenters
- Publication: ICNP 2016 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Liuhua Chen; Haiying Shen; Stephen Platt
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration; Cache
- Objective: Throughput +
- Link: DOI
OpenBox: A Software-Defined Framework for Developing, Deploying, and Managing Network Functions
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2016 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Anat Bremler-Barr; Yotam Harchol; David Hay
- Keywords: Chaining; Deployment; Scheduling; Migration; Joint
- Objective: Framework
- Link: DOI
SliM: Enabling efficient, seamless NFV state migration
- Publication: ICNP 2016 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Leonhard Nobach; Ivica Rimac; Volker Hilt; David Hausheer
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Transparent flow migration for NFV
- Publication: ICNP 2016 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yang Wang; Gaogang Xie; Zhenyu Li; Peng He; Kavé Salamatian
- Keywords: Scheduling; Migration
- Objective: Throughput +
- Link: DOI

3.5 Routing

Fast Reoptimization With Only a Few Changes: Enhancing Tactical Traffic Engineering With Segment Routing Midpoint Optimization
- Publication: JSAC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Alexander Brundiers; Timmy Schüller; Nils Aschenbruck
- Keywords: Traffic engineering; Segment routing; Midpoint optimization; Local search; Fast reoptimization
- Objective: Configuration changes -; Provisioning time -; Maximum link utilization -
- Link: DOI
Maintaining Predictable Traffic Engineering Performance Under Controller Failures for Software-Defined WANs
- Publication: JSAC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Songshi Dou; Zehua Guo
- Keywords: Software-defined WAN; Controller failure; Traffic engineering; Flow-controller reassignment; Flow rerouting
- Objective: Load imbalance -; Failure resilience +; Computation time -
- Link: DOI
PreTE: Traffic Engineering with Predictive Failures
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Congcong Miao; Zhizhen Zhong; Yiren Zhao; Arpit Gupta; Ying Zhang; Sirui Li; Zekun He; Xianneng Zou; Jilong Wang
- Keywords: WAN traffic engineering; Predictive failures; Optical degradation; Proactive routing; Availability
- Objective: Network availability +; Traffic loss -; Link utilization +
- Link: DOI
SaTE: Low-Latency Traffic Engineering for Satellite Networks
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Hao Wu; Yizhan Han; Mohit Rajpal; Qizhen Zhang; Jingxian Wang
- Keywords: Satellite network; Traffic engineering; Dynamic topology; Low-latency optimization; Traffic allocation
- Objective: Optimization latency -; Maximum link utilization -; Scalability +
- Link: DOI
MegaTE: Extending WAN Traffic Engineering to Millions of Endpoints in Virtualized Cloud
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: 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
- Keywords: WAN traffic engineering; Virtualized cloud; Endpoint scalability; Hierarchical optimization
- Objective: Solver runtime -; Traffic engineering scalability +
- Link: DOI
Achieving High Availability in Inter-DC WAN Traffic Engineering
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Han Zhang; Xia Yin; Xingang Shi; Jilong Wang; Zhiliang Wang; Yingya Guo; Tian Lan; Yahui Li; Yongqing Zhu; Ke Ruan; Haijun Geng
- Keywords: Inter-datacenter WAN; Traffic engineering; High availability; Failure recovery; Routing
- Link: DOI
MiFi: Bounded Update to Optimize Network Performance in Software-Defined Data Centers
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Akbar Majidi; Xiaofeng Gao; Shunjia Zhu; Nazila Jahanbakhsh; Jiaqi Zheng; Guihai Chen
- Keywords: Software-defined data center; Network update; Traffic engineering; Bounded reconfiguration
- Link: DOI
PAINTER: Ingress Traffic Engineering and Routing for Enterprise Cloud Networks
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Thomas Koch; Shuyue Yu; Sharad Agarwal; Ethan Katz-Bassett; Ryan Beckett
- Keywords: Enterprise cloud; Ingress traffic engineering; Routing; Edge proxy; Resilience
- Link: DOI
Toward Flexible and Predictable Path Programmability Recovery Under Multiple Controller Failures in Software-Defined WANs
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zehua Guo; Songshi Dou; Wenfei Wu; Yuanqing Xia
- Keywords: Software-defined WAN; Controller failure; Path programmability; Failure recovery; Traffic engineering
- Link: DOI
SAFE-ME: Scalable and Flexible Policy Enforcement in Middlebox Networks
- Publication: TON 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Hongli Xu; Peng Xi; Gongming Zhao; Jianchun Liu; Chen Qian; Liusheng Huang
- Keywords: Routing; Middlebox
- Objective: Latency -; Scalability +
- Link: DOI
Software-defined Internet of Multimedia Things: Energy-efficient and Load-balanced Resource Management
- Publication: IoTJ 2022 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Ahmadreza Montazerolghaem
- Keywords: Routing; IoT; Energy; Load Balancing
- Objective: Energy consumption -; Load Balancing +
- Link: DOI
Real-Time Update of Joint SFC and Routing in Software Defined Networks
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xingpeng Fan; Hongli Xu; He Huang; Xuwei Yang
- Keywords: Routing; Joint; Latency
- Objective: Latency -
- Link: DOI
Congestion Minimization for Service Chain Routing Problems With Path Length Considerations
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Lingnan Gao; George N. Rouskas
- Keywords: Routing; Congestion
- Objective: Congestion -
- Link: DOI
On SDN-Driven Network Optimization and QoS Aware Routing Using Multiple Paths
- Publication: TWC 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Miloud Bagaa; Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra; Tarik Taleb; Konstantinos Samdanis
- Keywords: Routing
- Objective: Throughput +
- Link: DOI
Throughput Maximization of NFV-Enabled Multicasting in Mobile Edge Cloud Networks
- Publication: TPDS 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yu Ma; Weifa Liang; Jie Wu; Zichuan Xu
- Keywords: Routing; Edge; Energy; Multicasting
- Link: DOI
Throughput-Optimal Broadcast in Wireless Networks with Dynamic Topology
- Publication: TMC 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Abhishek Sinha; Leandros Tassiulas; Eytan Modiano
- Keywords: Routing; Dynamic
- Objective: Throughput +
- Link: DOI
Shortest Path and Maximum Flow Problems Under Service Function Chaining Constraints
- Publication: INFOCOM 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Gamal Sallam; Gagan R. Gupta; Bin Li; Bo Ji
- Keywords: Routing; Constrained
- Objective: Running time -
- Link: arXiv
Central Control Over Distributed Routing
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2015 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Stefano Vissicchio; Olivier Tilmans; Laurent Vanbever; Jennifer Rexford
- Keywords: Routing; Distributed
- Objective: Overhead -; Failure -
- Link: DOI, ACM DL

3.6 Other

Availability Aware Online Virtual Network Function Backup in Edge Environments
- Publication: TMC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yu Liu; Xiaojun Shang; Yingling Mao; Zhenhua Liu; Yuanyuan Yang
- Keywords: Backup
- Link: DOI
Dynamic Network Security Function Enforcement via Joint Flow and Function Scheduling
- Publication: TIFS 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Qi Li; Xinhao Deng; Zhuotao Liu; Yuan Yang; Xiaoyue Zou; Qian Wang; Mingwei Xu; Jianping Wu
- Keywords: Security
- Link: DOI

4. Machine Learning-based Methods

4.1 Slicing

Maritime-Oriented Network Slicing in O-RAN Integrated Aerial-Terrestrial Networks
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Sahar Ammar; Wiem Abderrahim; Basem Shihada
- Keywords: O-RAN; Maritime network slicing; Aerial-terrestrial network; UAV; AI-based resource allocation
- Objective: Slice utility +; QoS violations -; Coverage +
- Link: DOI
AdaSlicing: Adaptive Online Network Slicing Under Continual Network Dynamics in Open Radio Access Networks
- Publication: INFOCOM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ming Zhao; Yuru Zhang; Qiang Liu; Ahan Kak; Nakjung Choi
- Keywords: O-RAN; Adaptive network slicing; Bayesian learning; ADMM; Soft isolation
- Objective: Operating cost -; Slice performance +; Resource isolation +
- Link: arXiv, published version
O-RAN-Enabled Intelligent Network Slicing to Meet Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jiongyu Dai; Lianjun Li; Ramin Safavinejad; Shadab Mahboob; Hao Chen; Vishnu V Ratnam; Haining Wang; Jianzhong Zhang; Lingjia Liu
- Keywords: O-RAN; RAN slicing; Deep reinforcement learning; Two-level scheduling; SLA
- Objective: SLA violations -; Resource utilization +; Throughput +
- Link: DOI
Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning-Based Resource Allocation and Trading for Network Slicing in 5G
- Publication: TON 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Daniel Ayepah-Mensah; Guolin Sun; Gordon Owusu Boateng; Stephen Anokye; Guisong Liu
- Keywords: Network slicing; Federated learning; Blockchain; Resource trading
- Objective: Resource trading utility +; Privacy +
- Link: DOI
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Online Resource Allocation in Network Slicing
- Publication: TMC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yue Cai; Peng Cheng; Zhuo Chen; Ming Ding; Branka Vucetic; Yonghui Li
- Keywords: Network slicing; Online resource allocation; Deep reinforcement learning
- Objective: Long-term utility +; SLA violations -
- Link: DOI
Dynamic Fine-Grained SLA Management for 6G eMBB-Plus Slice Using mDNN & Smart Contracts
- Publication: TSC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Sadaf Bukhari; Kashif Sharif; Liehuang Zhu; Chang Xu; Fan Li; Sujit Biswas
- Keywords: 6G slicing; SLA management; Meta-learning; Smart contracts
- Objective: SLA violations -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
Energy-Aware Design Policy for Network Slicing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TSC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ranyin Wang; Vasilis Friderikos; A. Hamid Aghvami
- Keywords: Network slicing; Energy-aware deployment; Deep reinforcement learning
- Objective: Energy consumption -; Slice acceptance +
- Link: DOI
Flexible RAN Slicing in Open RAN With Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Mohammad Zangooei; Morteza Golkarifard; Mohamed Rouili; Niloy Saha; Raouf Boutaba
- Keywords: O-RAN; RAN slicing; Constrained multi-agent reinforcement learning; SLA
- Objective: Resource consumption -; SLA violations -
- Link: DOI
Safe and Accelerated Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based O-RAN Slicing: A Hybrid Transfer Learning Approach
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ahmad M. Nagib; Hatem Abou-Zeid; Hossam S. Hassanein
- Keywords: O-RAN slicing; Safe deep reinforcement learning; Transfer learning; Policy distillation
- Objective: Adaptation time -; SLA violations -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Slice Sandwich: Jagged Slicing Multi-Tier Dynamic Resources for Diversified V2X Services
- Publication: TMC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yu Liu; Zirui Zhuang; Qi Qi; Jingyu Wang; Dezhi Chen; Lu Lu; Hongwei Yang; Jianxin Liao; Zhu Han
- Keywords: V2X; Multi-tier computing; Neural bandits; Deep Q-learning; Dual-timescale allocation
- Objective: System revenue +; KPI satisfaction +
- Link: DOI
Consortium Blockchain-Based Spectrum Trading for Network Slicing in 5G RAN: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Gordon Owusu Boateng; Guolin Sun; Daniel Ayepah Mensah; Daniel Mawunyo Doe; Ruijie Ou; Guisong Liu
- Keywords: 5G RAN; Network slicing; Spectrum trading; Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning; Consortium blockchain
- Link: DOI
Intelligent and Collaborative Orchestration of Network Slices
- Publication: TSC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ying Wang; Naling Li; Peng Yu; Wenjing Li; Xuesong Qiu; Shangguang Wang; Mohamed Cheriet
- Keywords: Network slicing; Cloud-edge collaboration; Slice isolation; Deep reinforcement learning; Orchestration
- Link: DOI
Multi-SP Network Slicing Parallel Relieving Edge Network Conflict
- Publication: TPDS 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Rongxin Han; Dezhi Chen; Song Guo; Jingyu Wang; Qi Qi; Lu Lu; Jianxin Liao
- Keywords: Network slicing; Multi-service-provider; Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning; Edge resource conflict; Parallel deployment
- Link: DOI
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cross-Slice Federated Meta Learning for Resource Orchestration to Cold-Start Slice
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tianjian Dong; Qi Qi; Jingyu Wang; Zirui Zhuang; Haifeng Sun; Jianxin Liao; Zhu Han
- Keywords: Network slicing; Resource orchestration; Federated meta learning; Cold-start slice
- Link: DOI
Using Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Resource Orchestration in a Network Slicing Scenario
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Federico Mason; Gianfranco Nencioni; Andrea Zanella
- Keywords: Network slicing; Resource orchestration; Distributed reinforcement learning; Dynamic allocation
- Link: arXiv, published version
ONETS: Online Network Slice Broker From Theory to Practice
- Publication: TWC 2022 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Vincenzo Sciancalepore; Lanfranco Zanzi; Xavier Costa-Pérez; Antonio Capone
- Keywords: Slicing
- Link: DOI
A Constrained Reinforcement Learning Based Approach for Network Slicing
- Publication: ICNP 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yongshuai Liu; Jiaxin Ding; Xin Liu
- Keywords: Slicing
- Link: DOI

4.2 Chaining

Fair and Scalable Orchestration of Network and Compute Resources for Virtual Edge Services
- Publication: TMC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Sharda Tripathi; Corrado Puligheddu; Somreeta Pramanik; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
- Keywords: Chaining; DQN; Pareto analysis Autoencoder
- Objective: Fair +
- Link: DOI
Orchestrating Energy-Efficient vRANs: Bayesian Learning and Experimental Results
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jose A. Ayala-Romero; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Xavier Costa-Perez; George Iosifidis
- Keywords: Chaining; Energy; Bayesian Learning
- Objective: Energy -
- Link: DOI
Endogenous Trusted DRL-Based Service Function Chain Orchestration for IoT
- Publication: TC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Shaoyong Guo; Yuanyuan Qi; Yi Jin; Wenjing Li; Xuesong Qiu; Luoming Meng
- Keywords: Chaining; A3C (Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic)
- Objective: Orchestration cost -
- Link: DOI
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Multi-Domain Network Resource Orchestration Based on Virtual Network Architecture: A DRL Method
- Publication: TITS 2022 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Peiying Zhang; Chao Wang; Neeraj Kumar; Lei Liu
- Keywords: Chaining; Deployment; Multi-Domain; DQN
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
vrAIn: Deep Learning Based Orchestration for Computing and Radio Resources in vRANs
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jose A. Ayala-Romero; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Marco Gramaglia; Xavier Costa-Pérez; Albert Banchs; Juan J. Alcaraz
- Keywords: Chaining; DDPG (deep deterministic policy gradient); Autoencoder
- Objective: QoS +
- Link: DOI
Scalable Orchestration of Service Function Chains in NFV-Enabled Networks: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Approach
- Publication: JSAC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Haojun Huang; Cheng Zeng; Yangmin Zhao; Geyong Min; Yingying Zhu; Wang Miao; Jia Hu
- Keywords: Chaining; Deployment; DQN; FL (Federated Learning)
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI

4.3 Deployment

Adaptive Orchestration of Service Function Chains in SAGIN-MEC via Graph Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Peiying Zhang; Shengpeng Chen; Jian Fan; Lizhuang Tan; Chunxiao Jiang
- Keywords: SAGIN-MEC; Service function chain; Graph reinforcement learning; Online embedding; Heterogeneous resources
- Objective: Acceptance ratio +; End-to-end latency -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
AvailGuard: An Availability-aware VNF Deployment Framework Based on Traffic Forecasting in SDN/NFV-enabled Networks
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yi Yue; Xiongyan Tang; Lexi Xu; Chang Cao; Wencong Yang; Yaru Zhao; Lingyang Song
- Keywords: SDN; NFV; VNF deployment; Traffic forecasting; Availability-aware orchestration
- Objective: Service availability +; Deployment cost -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
Dynamic VNF Orchestration for UAV-Aided Emergency Networks: A Learning and Optimization Control Loop Framework
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Chuan Pham; Kim Khoa Nguyen
- Keywords: UAV-aided emergency network; Dynamic VNF orchestration; Learning and optimization; Closed-loop control
- Objective: Service reliability +; Orchestration cost -; Response latency -
- Link: DOI
FlexVNE: A LLM-Powered Flexible Framework for Virtual Network Embedding in Cloud-Network Convergence
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Fan Pan; Le Tian; Dan Li; Pengshuai Cui; Yu Wang; Xuanyan Song; Menglong Li; Xinglong Pei; Yuxiang Hu; Xiaobo Guo
- Keywords: Virtual network embedding; Large language model; Cloud-network convergence; Flexible orchestration
- Objective: Acceptance ratio +; Embedding cost -; Generalization +
- Link: DOI
Virne: A Comprehensive Benchmark for RL-based Network Resource Allocation in NFV
- Publication: ICLR 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tianfu Wang; Liwei Deng; Xi Chen; Junyang Wang; Huiguo He; Zhengyu Hu; Wei Wu; Leilei Ding; Qilin Fan; Hui Xiong
- Keywords: Deployment; Deep Reinforcement Learning; Network Simulation; Benchmark
- Objective: Effectiveness; Solvability; Generalizability; Scalability
- Link: arXiv, code
DeepSelector: A Deep Learning-Based Virtual Network Function Placement Approach in SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yi Yue; Xiongyan Tang; Ying-Chang Liang; Chang Cao; Lexi Xu; Wencong Yang; Zhiyan Zhang
- Keywords: VNF placement; SDN; NFV; Deep learning; Service function chain
- Objective: Placement quality +; Decision time -; Scalability +
- Link: DOI
Network Diffuser for Placing-Scheduling Service Function Chains with Inverse Demonstration
- Publication: INFOCOM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zuyuan Zhang; Vaneet Aggarwal; Tian Lan
- Keywords: Service function chain; Diffusion model; Inverse demonstration; Joint placement and scheduling; Online arrivals
- Objective: SFC reward +; Waiting time -; Blocking rate -
- Link: arXiv, published version
AIRIC: Orchestration of Virtualized Radio Access Networks With Noisy Neighbours
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Josep Xavier Salvat Lozano; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Xi Li; Xavier Costa Perez
- Keywords: Virtualized RAN; Noisy neighbours; Relation network; Deep Q-learning
- Objective: Operating cost -; Resource consumption -; Service guarantees +
- Link: arXiv, published version
FlagVNE: A Flexible and Generalizable Reinforcement Learning Framework for Network Resource Allocation
- Publication: IJCAI 2024 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Tianfu Wang; Qilin Fan; Chao Wang; Long Yang; Leilei Ding; Nicholas Jing Yuan; Hui Xiong
- Keywords: Deployment; Deep Reinforcement Learning; Meta Learning; Graph Convolutional Network (GNN, GCN); proximal policy optimization (PPO)
- Objective: Cost -; Revenue-to-cost +; Long-term Revenue +
- Link: arXiv
Joint Admission Control and Resource Allocation of Virtual Network Embedding Via Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TSC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tianfu Wang; Li Shen; Qilin Fan; Tong Xu; Tongliang Liu; Hui Xiong
- Keywords: Deployment; Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning; Graph Attention Network (GNN, GAT); proximal policy optimization (PPO)
- Objective: Cost -; Revenue-to-cost +; Long-term Revenue +
- Link: DOI
Parallel Placement of Virtualized Network Functions via Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TON 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Haojun Huang; Jialin Tian; Geyong Min; Hao Yin; Cheng Zeng; Yangming Zhao; Dapeng Oliver Wu
- Keywords: VNF placement; Federated learning; Deep reinforcement learning; Parallel decision-making
- Objective: Placement cost -; Training overhead -; Privacy +
- Link: DOI
QoS Aware Virtual Network Embedding in Space-Air-Ground-Ocean Integrated Network
- Publication: TSC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yi Zhang; Peiying Zhang; Chunxiao Jiang; Shangguang Wang; Hongxia Zhang; Chunming Rong
- Keywords: Virtual network embedding; Space-air-ground-ocean network; K-means; Reinforcement learning
- Objective: Acceptance ratio +; Revenue +; Delay -
- Link: DOI
Traffic-Aware Lightweight Hierarchical Offloading Toward Adaptive Slicing-Enabled SAGIN
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zheyi Chen; Junjie Zhang; Geyong Min; Zhaolong Ning; Jie Li
- Keywords: SAGIN; Adaptive slicing; Hierarchical offloading; Deep reinforcement learning; Knowledge distillation
- Objective: Service latency -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
Dapper: Deploying Service Function Chains in the Programmable Data Plane Via Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TSC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiaoquan Zhang; Lin Cui; Fung Po Tso; Zhetao Li; Weijia Jia
- Keywords: Service function chain; Programmable data plane; Deep reinforcement learning; Deployment
- Link: DOI
Online Learning for Failure-Aware Edge Backup of Service Function Chains With the Minimum Latency
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Chen Wang; Qin Hu; Dongxiao Yu; Xiuzhen Cheng
- Keywords: Service function chain; Edge backup; Online bandit learning; Failure awareness; Latency
- Link: arXiv, published version
RuleDRL: Reliability-Aware SFC Provisioning With Bounded Approximations in Dynamic Environments
- Publication: TSC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yue Zeng; Zhihao Qu; Song Guo; Bin Tang; Baoliu Ye; Jing Li; Jie Zhang
- Keywords: NFV; Service function chain; Reliability; Deep reinforcement learning; Bounded approximation
- Link: DOI
Monkey Business: Reinforcement learning meets neighborhood search for Virtual Network Embedding
- Publication: CN 2022 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Maxime Elkael; Massinissa Ait Aba; Andrea Araldo; Hind Castel; Badii Jouaber
- Keywords: Deployment; MCTS (Monte Carlo tree search); Neighborhood Search
- Objective: Cost -; Revenue-to-cost +
- Link: arXiv, code
Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cost- and Delay-Sensitive Virtual Network Function Placement and Routing
- Publication: TCOM 2022 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Shaoyang Wang; Chau Yuen; Wei Ni; Yong Liang Guan; Tiejun Lv
- Keywords: Deployment; Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning; deep deterministic policy gradient
- Objective: Cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
A-DDPG: Attention Mechanism-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for NFV
- Publication: IWQoS 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Nan He; Song Yang; Fan Li; Stojan Trajanovski; Fernando A. Kuipers; Xiaoming Fu
- Keywords: Deployment; Attention; DDPG; Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI, PDF
DDQP: A Double Deep Q-Learning Approach to Online Fault-Tolerant SFC Placement
- Publication: TNSM 2021 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Lei Wang; Weixi Mao; Jin Zhao; Yuedong Xu
- Keywords: Deployment; DDQN
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI

Earlier papers (19)

DRL-SFCP: Adaptive Service Function Chains Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: ICC 2021 (CCF-C)
- Authors: Tianfu Wang; Qilin Fan; Xiuhua Li; Xu Zhang; Qingyu Xiong; Shu Fu; Min Gao
- Keywords: Deployment; GNN; GCN; Seq2Seq; GRU; A3C
- Objective: Placement cost -; Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI, code, ResearchGate
On the Effective Parallelization and Near-Optimal Deployment of Service Function Chains
- Publication: TPDS 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jianzhen Luo; Jun Li; Lei Jiao; Jun Cai
- Keywords: Deployment; Parallelization; Viterbi Dynamic Programming algorithm
- Objective: Latency -
- Link: DOI
A Continuous-Decision Virtual Network Embedding Scheme Relying on Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TNSM 2020 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Haipeng Yao; Sihan Ma; Jingjing Wang; Peiying Zhang; Chunxiao Jiang; Song Guo
- Keywords: Continuous-Decision; Time Series; RNN; Seq2Seq
- Objective: Long term average revenue to cost ratio +
- Link: DOI
A Dynamic and Collaborative Multi-Layer Virtual Network Embedding Algorithm in SDN Based on Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TNSM 2020 (CCF-C; JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Meilian Lu; Yun Gu; Dongliang Xie
- Keywords: Deployment; Collaborative; Multi-Layer; REINFORCE
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Long-term average revenue +
- Link: DOI
A Dynamic Reliability-Aware Service Placement for Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Mohammad Karimzadeh-Farshbafan; Vahid Shah-Mansouri; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Deployment; Dynamic Reliability-aware; MDP (Markov Decision Process); Viterbi algorithm
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Automatic Virtual Network Embedding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach With Graph Convolutional Networks
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zhongxia Yan; Jingguo Ge; Yulei Wu; Liangxiong Li; Tong Li
- Keywords: Deployment; A3C (Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic); GNN; GCN (Graph Convolutional Network)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Long-term average revenue +
- Link: DOI
Dynamic Service Function Chain Embedding for NFV-Enabled IoT: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
- Publication: TWC 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Xiaoyuan Fu; F. Richard Yu; Jingyu Wang; Qi Qi; Jianxin Liao
- Keywords: Deployment; Latency; DQN; Dynamic
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
MUVINE: Multi-Stage Virtual Network Embedding in Cloud Data Centers Using Reinforcement Learning-Based Predictions
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Hiren Kumar Thakkar; Chinmaya Kumar Dehury; Prasan Kumar Sahoo
- Keywords: Deployment; Q-learning; ML (Machine Learning); Multi-Stage
- Objective: Long-term average revenue +; Placement cost -
- Link: arXiv, published version
Optimal VNF Placement via Deep Reinforcement Learning in SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jianing Pei; Peilin Hong; Miao Pan; Jiangqing Liu; Jingsong Zhou
- Keywords: Deployment; DDQN (Double Deep Q Network); BIP (Binary Integer Programming)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Function Placement Optimization With Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ruben Solozabal; Josu Ceberio; Aitor Sanchoyerto; Luis Zabala; Bego Blanco; Fidel Liberal
- Keywords: Deployment; PG (Policy Gradients); Attention; LSTM; PG (Policy Gradient); Seq2Seq (Sequence-to-Sequence)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Power consumption -; Energy consumption -
- Link: DOI
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based VNF Management in Geo-distributed Edge Computing
- Publication: ICDCS 2019 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Lin Gu; Deze Zeng; Wei Li; Song Guo; Albert Y. Zomaya; Hai Jin
- Keywords: Deployment; DDPG; Latency; Scheduling; Latency-awareness; flow; DDPG (Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +; Placement cost -; Latency -
- Link: DOI
DeepViNE: Virtual Network Embedding with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: INFOCOM Workshops 2019
- Authors: Mahdi Dolati; Seyedeh Bahereh Hassanpour; Majid Ghaderi; Ahmad Khonsari
- Keywords: Deployment; DQN (Deep Q Network); Multi-channels Representations
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
Multi-domain Non-cooperative VNF-FG Embedding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
- Publication: INFOCOM Workshops 2019
- Authors: Quang Pham Tran Anh; Abbas Bradai; Kamal Deep Singh; Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul
- Keywords: Deployment; DDPG (Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient); Multi-domain; Non-cooperative
- Link: DOI, PDF
NFVdeep: Adaptive Online Service Function Chain Deployment with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: IWQoS 2019 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yikai Xiao; Qixia Zhang; Fangming Liu; Jia Wang; Miao Zhao; Zhongxing Zhang; Jiaxing Zhang
- Keywords: Deployment; PG (Policy Gradient); Serialization and Backtracking; Time Slots
- Objective: Energy consumption -; Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
VNE-TD: A virtual network embedding algorithm based on temporal-difference learning
- Publication: CN 2019 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Sen Wang; Jun Bi; Jianping Wu; Athanasios V. Vasilakos; Qilin Fan
- Keywords: Deployment; TD (Temporal Difference); GRC (Global Resource Control)
- Objective: Long-term time-average revenue +
- Link: DOI
NeuroViNE: A Neural Preprocessor for Your Virtual Network Embedding Algorithm
- Publication: INFOCOM 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Andreas Blenk; Patrick Kalmbach; Johannes Zerwas; Michael Jarschel; Stefan Schmid; Wolfgang Kellerer
- Keywords: Deployment; Hopfield Network
- Objective: Revenue-cost ratio +; Running time -
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Embedding via Monte Carlo Tree Search
- Publication: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 2018 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Soroush Haeri; Ljiljana Trajković
- Keywords: Deployment; MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search)
- Objective: Revenue-to-cost +; Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
An Efficient Algorithm for Virtual Network Function Placement and Chaining
- Publication: CCNC 2017
- Authors: Oussama Soualah; Marouen Mechtri; Chaima Ghribi; Djamal Zeghlache
- Keywords: Deployment; MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI
MDP and Machine Learning-Based Cost-Optimization of Dynamic Resource Allocation for Network Function Virtualization
- Publication: SCC 2015
- Authors: Runyu Shi; Jia Zhang; Wenjing Chu; Qihao Bao; Xiatao Jin; Chenran Gong; Qihao Zhu; Chang Yu; Steven Rosenberg
- Keywords: Deployment; MDP; Bayesian learning
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: DOI

4.4 Scheduling

CORMO-RAN: Energy Efficiency at the Near-RT RIC via Lossless Migration of O-RAN xApps
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Antonio Calagna; Stefano Maxenti; Leonardo Bonati; Salvatore D’Oro; Tommaso Melodia; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
- Keywords: O-RAN; xApp migration; Near-RT RIC; Energy-aware orchestration; Traffic prediction
- Objective: Energy consumption -; Migration loss -; Resource utilization +
- Link: arXiv, published version
Traffic Digital Twin-Enabled Orchestration and Scheduling in O-RAN: A Multi-Timescale Joint Optimization Approach
- Publication: TMC 2026 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yinlin Ren; Longyu Zhou; Shaoyong Guo; Xuesong Qiu; Tony Q. S. Quek
- Keywords: O-RAN; Traffic digital twin; Multi-timescale optimization; Functional orchestration; Resource scheduling
- Objective: End-to-end latency -; Resource utilization +; Service utility +
- Link: DOI
Cost-Aware Neural Adaptive Scaling for vRAN Resource Allocation
- Publication: TMC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Taeyun Kim; Daeyoung Jung; Yujin Kim; Sangheon Pack
- Keywords: vRAN; Containerized network functions; Adaptive scaling; Neural resource allocation; Reconfiguration cost
- Objective: Operating cost -; Energy consumption -; Service interruptions -
- Link: DOI
Kairos: Energy-Efficient Radio Unit Control for O-RAN via Advanced Sleep Modes
- Publication: INFOCOM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: J. Xavier Salvat Lozano; Jose A. Ayala-Romero; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Xavier Costa-Perez
- Keywords: O-RAN; Radio unit control; Advanced sleep modes; Data-driven scheduling; QoS constraints
- Objective: Energy consumption -; QoS violations -; Scheduling latency -
- Link: arXiv, published version
ATHENA: Machine Learning and Reasoning for Radio Resources Scheduling in vRAN Systems
- Publication: JSAC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Nikolaos Apostolakis; Marco Gramaglia; Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou; Tejas Subramanya; Albert Banchs; Henning Sanneck
- Keywords: vRAN; Radio resource scheduling; Machine learning; Reasoning
- Objective: Resource utilization +; Service guarantees +
- Link: DOI
Self-Learning Multi-Mode Slicing Mechanism for Dynamic Network Architectures
- Publication: TON 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Haitham H. Esmat; Beatriz Lorenzo
- Keywords: Network slicing; Self-learning; Multi-mode operation; Dynamic architecture
- Objective: Utility +; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
Traffic Prediction-Based VNF Auto-Scaling and Deployment Mechanism for Flexible and Elastic Service Provision
- Publication: TSC 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Bo Yi; Jiacheng Wang; Qiang He; Xingwei Wang; Min Huang; Sajal K. Das; Keqin Li
- Keywords: VNF auto-scaling; Traffic prediction; GRU; Elastic deployment; State caching
- Objective: SLA violations -; Resource utilization +
- Link: DOI
Train Once Apply Anywhere: Effective Scheduling for Network Function Chains Running on FUMES
- Publication: INFOCOM 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Marcel Blöcher; Nils Nedderhut; Pavel Chuprikov; Ramin Khalili; Patrick Eugster; Lin Wang
- Keywords: Network function chain; Scheduling; Transferable learning; FUMES
- Objective: Scheduling performance +; Retraining cost -
- Link: DOI
EdgeBOL: A Bayesian Learning Approach for the Joint Orchestration of vRANs and Mobile Edge AI
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jose A. Ayala-Romero; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Xavier Costa-Perez; George Iosifidis
- Keywords: vRAN; Mobile edge AI; Bayesian online learning; Joint orchestration; Energy efficiency
- Link: DOI
Reliable Dynamic Service Chain Scheduling in 5G Networks
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Lei Yang; Junzhong Jia; Hongcai Lin; Jiannong Cao
- Keywords: 5G; Service function chain; Dynamic scheduling; Reinforcement learning; Reliability
- Link: DOI
Revenue-Optimal Auction for Resource Allocation in Wireless Virtualization: A Deep Learning Approach
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Kun Zhu; Yuanyuan Xu; Qian Jun; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Scheduling; Resource Allocation; Auction
- Objective: Maximize MVNOs' own revenues
- Link: DOI
Reliability-aware Dynamic Service Chain Scheduling in 5G Networks based on Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: INFOCOM 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Junzhong Jia; Lei Yang; Jiannong Cao
- Keywords: Scheduling; MIIP; Reliability; Redundancy; A3C; TextCNN
- Objective: Decide the redundancy of the Scheduling while minimizing delay
- Link: DOI
Towards Chain-Aware Scaling Detection in NFV with Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: IWQoS 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Lin He; Lishan Li; Ying Liu
- Keywords: Scaling; A3C
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: DOI
Intelligent VNF Orchestration and Flow Scheduling via Model-Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Lin Gu; Deze Zeng; Wei Li; Song Guo; Albert Y. Zomaya; Hai Jin
- Keywords: Scheduling; Latency-awareness; flow; DDPG (Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient)
- Objective: Maximize the overall network utility with the consideration of end-to-end delay and various cost
- Link: DOI
Management and Orchestration of Virtual Network Functions via Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Joan S. Pujol Roig; David M. Gutierrez-Estevez; Deniz Gündüz
- Keywords: Scheduling; Chaining; Actor-Critic
- Objective: Cost -; QoS +
- Link: DOI
Virtual Network Functions Migration Cost: from Identification to Prediction
- Publication: CN 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Rafael de Jesus Martins; Cristiano Bonato Both; Juliano Araújo Wickboldt; Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville
- Keywords: Scheduling; SL; Linear regression
- Objective: A novel architecture for orchestrating and enforcing multi-domain SFCs
- Link: DOI
Study of Reconfiguration Cost and Energy Aware VNE Policies in Cycle-Stationary Traffic Scenarios
- Publication: JSAC 2016 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Vincenzo Eramo; Emanuele Miucci; Mostafa H. Ammar
- Keywords: Deployment; Reconfiguration; Joint; Energy; Cycle-Stationary Traffic; MDP
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: DOI

4.5 Routing

Adaptive and Low-Cost Traffic Engineering: A Traffic Matrix Clustering Perspective
- Publication: JSAC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yi Liu; Nan Geng; Mingwei Xu; Yuan Yang; Enhuan Dong; Chenyi Liu; Qiaoyin Gan; Qing Li; Jianping Wu
- Keywords: Traffic engineering; Traffic matrix clustering; Adaptive routing; Operating overhead
- Objective: Traffic engineering cost -; Routing overhead -; Load balance +
- Link: DOI
Aether: Toward Generalized Traffic Engineering with Elastic Multi-agent Graph Transformers
- Publication: INFOCOM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yu Fan; Jingyao Liu; Pengjin Xie; Liang Liu
- Keywords: Traffic engineering; Multi-agent learning; Graph transformer; Cross-topology generalization; Elastic demand
- Objective: Traffic engineering performance +; Generalization +; Inference time -
- Link: DOI, code
Hattrick: Solving Multi-Class TE using Neural Models
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Abd AlRhman AlQiam; Zhuocong Li; Satyajeet Singh Ahuja; Zhaodong Wang; Ying Zhang; Sanjay G. Rao; Bruno Ribeiro; Mohit Tawarmalani
- Keywords: Multi-class traffic engineering; Neural optimization; Multi-task learning; WAN
- Objective: Traffic engineering performance +; Optimization time -; Class priorities +
- Link: DOI
Path-Based Graph Neural Network for Robust and Resilient Routing in Distributed Traffic Engineering
- Publication: JSAC 2025 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Minghao Ye; Junjie Zhang; Zehua Guo; H. Jonathan Chao
- Keywords: Distributed traffic engineering; Graph neural network; Robust routing; Link failures; Traffic fluctuations
- Objective: Throughput +; Failure resilience +; Inference time -
- Link: DOI
FlexDATE: Flexible and Disturbance-Aware Traffic Engineering With Reinforcement Learning in Software-Defined Networks
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Minghao Ye; Junjie Zhang; Zehua Guo; H. Jonathan Chao
- Keywords: Software-defined networking; Traffic engineering; Reinforcement learning; Network disturbance; Routing
- Link: DOI
Teal: Learning-Accelerated Optimization of WAN Traffic Engineering
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zhiying Xu; Francis Y. Yan; Rachee Singh; Justin T. Chiu; Alexander M. Rush; Minlan Yu
- Keywords: WAN; Traffic engineering; Graph neural network; Multi-agent reinforcement learning; Network optimization
- Link: arXiv, published version
DRL-OR: Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Online Routing for Multi-type Service Requirements
- Publication: INFOCOM 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Chenyi Liu; Mingwei Xu; Yuan Yang; Nan Geng
- Keywords: Scheduling; Latency; Multi-agent; PPO
- Link: DOI
Towards Real-Time Routing Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Open Challenges
- Publication: INFOCOM 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Paul Almasan; José Suárez-Varela; Bo Wu; Shihan Xiao; Pere Barlet-Ros; Albert Cabellos-Aparicio
- Keywords: RL; GNN; PPO
- Link: arXiv
A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Perspective on Distributed Traffic Engineering
- Publication: ICNP 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Nan Geng; Tian Lan; Vaneet Aggarwal; Yuan Yang; Mingwei Xu
- Keywords: Scheduling; Multi-agent; Traffic Engineering
- Link: DOI
Unveiling the potential of Graph Neural Networks for network modeling and optimization in SDN
- Publication: SOSR 2019
- Authors: Krzysztof Rusek; José Suárez-Varela; Albert Mestres; Pere Barlet-Ros; Albert Cabellos-Aparicio
- Keywords: Routing; SL (Supervised Learning); GNN
- Link: arXiv
Learning to Route
- Publication: HotNets 2017 (CCF-C)
- Authors: Asaf Valadarsky; Michael Schapira; Dafna Shahaf; Aviv Tamar
- Keywords: Route; RL
- Objective: Automatically generate "good" routing configurations
- Link: DOI, PDF
Routing or Computing? The Paradigm Shift Towards Intelligent Computer Network Packet Transmission Based on Deep Learning
- Publication: TC 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Bomin Mao; Zubair Md. Fadlullah; Fengxiao Tang; Nei Kato; Osamu Akashi; Takeru Inoue; Kimihiro Mizutani
- Keywords: Routing; SL (Supervised Learning)
- Link: DOI

4.6 Other

Federated Multi-Discriminator BiWGAN-GP Based Collaborative Anomaly Detection for Virtualized Network Slicing
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Weili Wang; Chengchao Liang; Lun Tang; Halim Yanikomeroglu; Qianbin Chen
- Keywords: Anomaly Detection
- Link: DOI
Near Optimal Learning-Driven Mechanisms for Stable NFV Markets in Multitier Cloud Networks
- Publication: TON 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zichuan Xu; Haozhe Ren; Weifa Liang; Qiufen Xia; Wanlei Zhou; Pan Zhou; Wenzheng Xu; Guowei Wu; Mingchu Li
- Keywords: Market
- Link: DOI
Learning based E2E Energy Efficient in Joint Radio and NFV Resource Allocation for 5G and Beyond Networks
- Publication: arXiv 2021
- Authors: Narges Gholipoor; Ali Nouruzi; Shima Salarhosseini; Mohammad Reza Javan; Nader Mokari; Eduard A. Jorswieck
- Link: arXiv
Service Function Chaining in MEC: A Mean-Field Game and Reinforcement Learning Approach
- Publication: arXiv 2021
- Authors: Amine Abouaomar; Soumaya Cherkaoui; Zoubeir Mlika; Abdellatif Kobbane
- Link: arXiv, published version
The Greatest Teacher, Failure is: Using Reinforcement Learning for SFC Placement Based on Availability and Energy Consumption
- Publication: arXiv 2020
- Authors: Guto Leoni Santos; Theo Lynn; Judith Kelner; Patricia Takako Endo
- Link: arXiv
Knowledge-Defined Networking
- Publication: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2017
- Authors: 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
- Keywords: Software-Defined Networking; Network Analytics; Artificial Intelligence
- Link: arXiv, published version

5. Systems and Other Methods

eBPFlow: A Hardware/Software Platform to Seamlessly Offload Network Functions Leveraging eBPF
- Publication: TON 2024 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Racyus D. G. Pacífico; Lucas F. S. Duarte; Luiz F. M. Vieira; Barath Raghavan; José A. M. Nacif; Marcos A. M. Vieira
- Keywords: NFV; SDN; eBPF; FPGA; Network function offloading
- Objective: Throughput +; Latency -
- Link: DOI
Performance Tuning via Lean Measurements for Acceleration of Network Functions Virtualization
- Publication: TON 2023 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Qiang Wu; Xiangping Bryce Zhai; Xi Liu; Chun-Ming Wu; Fangliang Lou; Hongke Zhang
- Keywords: Acceleration
- Link: DOI
SDNShield: NFV-Based Defense Framework Against DDoS Attacks on SDN Control Plane
- Publication: TON 2022 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Kuan-Yin Chen; Sen Liu; Yang Xu; Ishant Kumar Siddhrau; Siyu Zhou; Zehua Guo; H. Jonathan Chao
- Keywords: Attack
- Link: DOI
Automated SmartNIC Offloading Insights for Network Functions
- Publication: SOSP 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yiming Qiu; Jiarong Xing; Kuo-Feng Hsu; Qiao Kang; Ming Liu; Srinivas Narayana; Ang Chen
- Keywords: Offloading
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
Bento: safely bringing network function virtualization to Tor
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Michael Reininger; Arushi Arora; Stephen Herwig; Nicholas Francino; Jayson Hurst; Christina Garman; Dave Levin
- Keywords: Programmable
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
vSFC: Generic and Agile Verification of Service Function Chains in the Cloud
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiaoli Zhang; Qi Li; Zeyu Zhang; Jianping Wu; Jiahai Yang
- Keywords: Verification
- Link: DOI
When SRv6 meets 5G Core: Implementation and Deployment of a Network Service Chaining Function in SmartNICs
- Publication: arXiv 2021
- Authors: Guilherme Matos; Fabio Luciano Verdi; Luis Miguel Contreras; Leandro C. de Almeida
- Link: arXiv
Fault Tolerant Service Function Chaining
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Milad Ghaznavi; Elaheh Jalalpour; Bernard Wong; Raouf Boutaba; Ali José Mashtizadeh
- Keywords: Fault-tolerant
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
Looking Glass of NFV: Inferring the Structure and State of NFV Network From External Observations
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yilei Lin; Ting He; Shiqiang Wang; Kevin Chan; Stephen Pasteris
- Keywords: Framework
- Link: DOI
Adding Support for Automatic Enforcement of Security Policies in NFV Networks
- Publication: TON 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Cataldo Basile; Fulvio Valenza; Antonio Lioy; Diego R. Lopez; Antonio Pastor Perales
- Keywords: Security
- Link: DOI
Automated synthesis of adversarial workloads for network functions
- Publication: SIGCOMM 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Luis Pedrosa; Rishabh Iyer; Arseniy Zaostrovnykh; Jonas Fietz; Katerina Argyraki
- Keywords: Adversarial workloads
- Link: DOI, ACM DL
Design, Implementation and Verification of Cloud Architecture for Monitoring a Virtual Machine's Security Health
- Publication: TC 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tianwei Zhang; Ruby B. Lee
- Keywords: Security
- Link: DOI

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