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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 name)

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

We mainly collect papers from high-quality journals and conferences, and classify them according to method categories. Particularly, you can find more details of papers in the Machine Learning-based section, which represents an encouraging technique to efficiently solve network resource allocation problems.

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You can search the relevant papers by following keywords:

Direction: Chaining, Deployment, Scheduling, Routing, Joint
Publication: SIGCOMM,INFOCOM, JSAC, TON,TMC, TPDS, TSC, ...
PUB-rank: CCF-A, CCF-B, JCR-Q1, ...
Scenario: Dsitributed, 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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Content

<a href="#1-survey-and-analysis">1. Survey and Analysis</a>
<a href="#2-mathematical-based-methods">2. Mathematical-based Methods</a>
- <a href="#23-Deployment">2.3 Deployment</a>
<a href="#3-heuristic-based-methods">3. Heuristic-based Methods</a>
- <a href="#31-Slicing">3.1 Slicing</a>
- <a href="#32-Chaining">3.2 Chaining</a>
- <a href="#33-Deployment">3.3 Deployment</a>
- <a href="#34-Scheduling">3.4 Scheduling</a>
- <a href="#35-Routing">3.5 Routing</a>
<a href="#4-machine-learning-based-methods">4. Machine Learning-based Methods</a>
- <a href="#41-Slicing">4.1 Slicing</a>
- <a href="#42-Chaining">4.2 Chaining</a>
- <a href="#43-Deployment">4.3 Deployment</a>
- <a href="#44-Scheduling">4.4 Scheduling</a>
- <a href="#45-Routing">4.5 Routing</a>
<a href="#5-other-and-unclassified">5. Other and Unclassified</a>

1. Survey and Analysis

VNF and CNF Placement in 5G: Recent Advances and Future Trends
- Publication: TNSM 2023 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Wissal Attaoui, Essaid Sabir, Halima Elbiaze, Mohsen Guizani
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Network Services Anomalies in NFV: Survey, Taxonomy, and Verification Methods
- Publication: TNSM 2022 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Moubarak Zoure;Toufik Ahmed;Laurent Réveillére
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: ACM DL
ONETS: Online Network Slice Broker From Theory to Practice
- Publication: TWC 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Vincenzo Sciancalepore; Lanfranco Zanzi; Xavier Costa-Pérez; Antonio Capone
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Graph-based Deep Learning for Communication Networks: A Survey
- Publication: arXiv 2021
- Authors: Weiwei Jiang
- Link: arXiv
On the Hardness and Inapproximability of Virtual Network Embeddings
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Matthias Rost and Stefan Schmid
- Link: paper
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
5G network slicing using SDN and NFV: A survey of taxonomy, architectures and future challenges
- Publication: CN 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Alcardo AlexBarakabitze, ArslanAhmad, Rashid Mijumb, Andrew Hinesd
- Link: ScienceDirect
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: IEEE Xplore
A Survey on the Placement of Virtual Resources and Virtual Network Functions
- Publication: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2019 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi and Tarik Taleb
- Link: paper
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: ScienceDirect
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Resource Allocation in NFV: A Comprehensive Survey
- Publication: TNSM 2016 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Juliver Gil Herrera, Juan Felipe Botero
- Link: IEEE Xplore
A Survey on Service Function Chaining
- Publication: Journal of Network and Computer Applications 2016 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Deval Bhamare, Raj Jain, Mohammed Samaka, Aiman Erbad
- Link: paper
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: IEEE Xplore

2. Mathematical-based Methods

Solving these problems with exact mathematical methods usually needs expensive computing resources and running time, which limits its applications in most realistic scenarios.

2.3 Deployment

PlaceRAN: optimal placement of virtualized network functions in Beyond 5G radio access networks
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A) (Early Access)
- Authors: Fernando Zanferrari Morais; Gabriel Matheus Faria De Almeida; Leizer Lima Pinto; Kleber 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: IEEE Xplore
Digital Twin-Assisted, SFC-Enabled Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge Computing
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A) (Early Access)
- 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: IEEE Xplore
Placement and Allocation of Virtual Network Functions: Multi-dimensional Case
- Publication: TMC 2022 (CCF-A) (Early Access)
- Authors: Sallam Gamal; Zizhan Zheng; Bo Ji
- Keywords: Deployment, Mobile, Edge, Relaxation, Multi-dimensional, Primal-dual technique
- Objective: Placement cost -, Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore

3. Heuristic-based Methods

Here are many heuristic-based and meta-heuristic-based methods, only part of which recently published are displayed directly. You can obtain more papers by clicking more button.

3.1 Slicing

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: IEEE Xplore
Multiservice-Based Network Slicing Orchestration With Impatient Tenants
- Publication: TWC 2022 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Bin Han; Vincenzo Sciancalepore; Xavier Costa-Pérez; Di Feng; Hans D. Schotten
- Keywords: Slicing, Orchestration
- Objective: Delay -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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)
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
An Efficient Linear Programming Rounding-and-Refinement Algorithm for Large-Scale Network Slicing Problem
- Publication: ICASSP 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Wei-Kun Chen; Ya-Feng Liu; Yu-Hong Dai; Zhi-Quan Luo
- Keywords: Slicing, Large-Scale, Linear Programming, Rounding-and-Refinement
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
LACO: A Latency-Driven Network Slicing Orchestration in Beyond-5G Networks
- Publication: TWC 2022 (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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: /
- Link: ScienceDirect
Optimization Model for Cross-Domain Network Slices in 5G Networks
- Publication: TMC 2019 (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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore

3.2 Chaining

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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: Throughput +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Toward a Real Deployment of Network Services Orchestration and Configuration Convergence Framework for 5G Network Slices
- Publication: IEEE Network 2021 (JCR-1)
- Authors: Ibrahim Afolabi; Miloud Bagaa; Walid Boumezer; Tarik Taleb
- Keywords: Chaining, Deployment, Joint, Network Slice, Distributed
- Objective: Framework
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Slicing-based Reliable Resource Orchestration for Secure Software Defined Edge-Cloud Computing Systems
- Publication: IoTJ 2021 (JCR-1)
- Authors: Ahmadreza Montazerolghaem
- Keywords: Chaining, IoT, Network Slice
- Objective: Placement cost -, Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore

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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: ScienceDirect
Towards Latency Optimization in Hybrid Service Function Chain Composition and Embedding
- Publication: INFOCOM 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Panpan Jin; Xincai Fei; Qixia Zhang; Fangming Liu; Bo Li
- Keywords: Chaining, Deployment, HSFCE (Hybrid SFC composition and Embedding), Latency-aware, Betweenness Centrality
- Objective: Latency
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Multiservice-Based Network Slicing Orchestration With Impatient Tenants
- Publication: TMC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ibrahim Afolabi; Jonathan Prados-Garzon; Miloud Bagaa; Tarik Taleb; Pablo Ameigeiras
- Keywords: Chaining, Dynamic
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Multiservice-Based Network Slicing Orchestration With Impatient Tenants
- Publication: TWC 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: PDF Bin Han; Vincenzo Sciancalepore; Xavier Costa-Pérez; Di Feng; Hans D. Schotten
- Keywords: Chaining
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: ScienceDirect
A Scalable Stateful Approach for Virtual Security Functions Orchestration
- 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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore

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3.3 Deployment

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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
SFT-Box: An Online Approach for Minimizing the Embedding Cost of Multiple Hybrid SFCs
- Publication: TON 2022 (CCF-A) (Early Access)
- Authors: Xu Lin; Deke Guo; Yulong Shen; Guoming Tang; Bangbang Ren; Ming Xu
- Keywords: Deployment, Online algorithm
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: Placement cost -, Reliability +, Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
CoShare: An Efficient Approach for Redundancy Allocation in NFV
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A) (Early Access)
- Authors: Yordanos Tibebu Woldeyohannes; Besmir Tola; Yuming Jiang; K. K. Ramakrishnan
- Keywords: Deployment, Redundancy Allocation, Reliablity
- Objective: Reliablity -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Prune and Plant: Efficient Placement and Parallelism of Virtual Network Functions
- Publication: TC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Wei Bao; Dong Yuan; Bing Bing Zhou; Albert Y. Zomaya
- Keywords: Deployment, Parallelization, Prune and Plant
- Objective: Placement cost -, Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Prioritized Deployment of Dynamic Service Function Chains
- Publication: TC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiaojun Shang; Zhenhua Liu; Yuanyuan Yang
- Keywords: Deployment, Prioritized
- Objective: Latency -, Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Mobility-Aware and Delay-Sensitive Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge-Cloud Networks
- Publication: TC ( Early Access ) (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yu Ma; Weifa Liang; Jing Li; Xiaohua Jia; Song Guo
- Keywords: Deployment, Mobility, Latency
- Objective: Latency -, Mobility +, Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Request Reliability Augmentation with Service Function Chain Requirements in Mobile Edge Computing
- Publication: TMC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Weifa Liang; Yu Ma; Wenzheng Xu; Zichuan Xu; Xiaohua Jia; Wanlei Zhou
- Keywords: Deployment, Reliability
- Objective: Reliability +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Keywords: Deployment, Scheduling, Joint
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Migration cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Dynamic Network Function Provisioning to Enable Network in Box for Industrial Applications
- Publication: TII 2021 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Gang Sun; Zhu Xu; Hongfang Yu; Victor Chang
- Keywords: Deployment, Path Selection
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Joint Virtual Network Topology Design and Embedding for Cybertwin-Enabled 6G Core Networks
- Publication: IoTJ 2021 (JCR-1)
- Authors: Junling Li; Weisen Shi; Qiang Ye; Shan Zhang; Weihua Zhuang; Xuemin Shen
- Keywords: Deployment, Joint, Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Energy-Aware Service Function Chain Embedding in Edge–Cloud Environments for IoT Applications
- Publication: IoTJ 2021 (JCR-1)
- 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: IEEE Xplore
Profit-aware Edge Server Placement
- Publication: IoTJ 2021 (JCR-1)
- Authors: Yuanzhe Li; Ao Zhou; Xiao Ma; Shangguang Wang
- Keywords: Deployment, Edge
- Objective: Energy consumption -, Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore

A novel evaluation function for higher acceptance rates and more profitable metaheuristic-based online virtual network embedding
- Publication: CN 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: ChristianAguilar-Fuster, JavierRubio-Loyola
- Keywords: Deployment, VNE, Evaluation functions, Fitness landscape
- Objective: Revenue-to-cost ratio+
- Link: ScienceDirect
Virtual Network Function Allocation in Service Function Chains Using Backups With Availability Schedule
- Publication: TNSM 2021 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Rui Kang; Fujun He; Eiji Oki
- Keywords: Deploymeny, Availability Schedule, Reliablity
- Objective: Reliablity +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Reliable Placement of Service Function Chains and Virtual Monitoring Functions With Minimal Cost in Softwarized 5G Networks
- Publication: TNSM 2021 (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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: ACM DL
Dynamic VNF Placement, Resource Allocation and Traffic Routing in 5G
- Publication: CN 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Morteza Golkarifard, C. Chiasserini, F. Malandrino, A. Movaghar
- Keywords: Deployment, Routing
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: arXiv
Efficient Virtual Network Embedding of Cloud-Based Data Center Networks into Optical Networks
- Publication: TSC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Weibei Fan; Fu Xiao; Xiaobai Chen; Lei Cui; Shui Yu
- Keywords: Deployment, Integer Linear Programming (ILP)
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Energy and Cost Efficient Resource Allocation for Blockchain-Enabled NFV
- Publication: TSC 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Shiva Kazemi Taskou, Mehdi Rasti, Pedro H. J. Nardelli
- Keywords: Deployment, Blockchain-Enabled, HuRA (Hungarian-based Resource Allocation), HuRA (Hungarian-based Resource Allocation)
- Objective: Energy consumption -, Placement cost -
- Link: paper
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 Iinear Programming), Latency, CDFSA (constrained depth-first search algorithm)
- Objective: Placement cost -, E2E Latency-
- Link: paper
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: Operating cost -, Placement cost -
- Link: paper
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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Sova: A Software-Defined Autonomic Framework for Virtual Network Allocations
- Publication: TPDS 2020 (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: IEEE Xplore
Latency and Mobility-Aware Service Function Chain Placement in 5G Networks
- Publication: TMC 2020 (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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Reducing the Service Function Chain Backup Cost over the Edge and Cloud by a Self-adapting Scheme
- Publication: TMC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Xiaojun Shang; Yaodong Huang; Zhenhua Liu; Yuanyuan Yang
- Keywords: Deployment, Edge, Reliablity, Backup
- Objective: Reliablity +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Approximation algorithms for data-intensive service chain embedding
- Publication: MobiHoc 2020(CCF-B)
- Authors: Konstantinos Poularakis, J. Llorca, A. Tulino, L. Tassiulas
- Keywords: Deployment, Data-intensive
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: ACM DL
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Virtual Network Embedding With Guaranteed Connectivity Under Multiple Substrate Link Failures
- Publication: TCOM 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Zhiyong Ye, Yang Wang, Shuibing He, Chengzhong Xu, Xian-He Sun
- Keywords: Deployment, Connectivity, Fault Tolerance, Redundancy
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Reliability Aware Service Placement Using a Viterbi-Based Algorithm
- Publication: TNSM 2020 (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: IEEE Xplore
A Constructive Particle Swarm Optimizer for Virtual Network Embedding
- Publication: TNSE 2020 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Yongqiang Gao; Haibing Guan; Zhengwei Qi; Yang Hou; Liang Liu
- Keywords: Deployment, CPSO (Constructive Particle Swarm Optimizer)
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Service Placement and Request Scheduling for Data-intensive Applications in Edge Clouds
- Publication: INFOCOM 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Vajiheh Farhadi; Fidan Mehmeti; Ting He; Tom La Porta; Hana Khamfroush; Shiqiang Wang; Kevin S Chan
- Keywords: Deployment, Scheduling, Mobile Edge
- Objective:Acceptance rate +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Virtual Network Embedding Approximations: Leveraging Randomized Rounding
- Publication: TON 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Matthias Rost; Stefan Schmid
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Provably Efficient Algorithms for Placement of Service Function Chains with Ordering Constraints
- Publication: INFOCOM 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ziyue Luo, Chuan Wu
- Keywords: Deployment, Equivalence with Hitting Set, Naive and Faster Greedy, LP-Rounding, DP (Dynamic Programming)
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: paper
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: Acceptance rate+
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Multi-Timescale Online Optimization of Network Function Virtualization for Service Chaining
- Publication: TMC 2018 (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: IEEE Xplore
Optimal Network Service Chain Provisioning
- Publication: TON 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Nicolas Huin; Brigitte Jaumard; Frédéric Giroire
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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 -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Efficiently Embedding Service Function Chains with Dynamic Virtual Network Function Placement in Geo-Distributed Cloud System
- Publication: TPDS 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Jianing Pei; Peilin Hong; Kaiping Xue; Defang Li
- Keywords: Deployment, Distributed, Binary Integer Programming (BIP)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Automated Function Placement and Online Optimization of Network Functions Virtualization
- Publication: TCOM 2018 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Xiaojing Chen; Wei Ni; Iain B. Collings; Xin Wang; Shugong Xu
- Keywords: Deployment, Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -, Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Distributed Virtual Network Embedding System With Historical Archives and Set-Based Particle Swarm Optimization
- Publication: TSMC 2018 (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: IEEE Xplore
Enhancing Metaheuristic-Based Online Embedding in Network Virtualization Environments
- Publication: TNSM 2018 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Javier Rubio-Loyola, Christian Aguilar-Fuster, Gregorio Toscano-Pulido, Rashid Mijumbi, and Joan Serrat-Fernández
- Keywords: Deployment, VNE, Fitness Function
- Objective: Revenue-to-cost ratio+
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Mobility Aware Virtual Network Embedding
- Publication: TMC 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Giorgos Chochlidakis; Vasilis Friderikos
- Keywords: Deployment, Mobility, Distributed
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Mobility +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Optimizing Virtual Backup Allocation for Middleboxess
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yossi Kanizo; Ori Rottenstreich; Itai Segall; Jose Yallouz
- Keywords: Deployment, Backup
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: ACM DL
Deploying chains of virtual network functions: On the relation between link and server usage
- Publication: INFOCOM 2016 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tung-Wei Kuo; Bang-Heng Liou; Kate Ching-Ju Lin; Ming-Jer Tsai
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Optimizing Virtual Backup Allocation for Middleboxess
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Yossi Kanizo; Ori Rottenstreich; Itai Segall; Jose Yallouz
- Keywords: Deployment, Backup
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Optimizing virtual backup allocation for middleboxes
- Publication: ICNP 2016 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yossi Kanizo; Ori Rottenstreich; Itai Segall; Jose Yallouz
- Keywords: Placement, Backup, Reliablity
- Objective: Reliablity +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Toward Profit-Seeking Virtual Network Embedding
- Publication: INFOCOM 2014 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Long Gong, Yonggang Wen, Zuqing Zhu and Tony Lee
- Keywords: Deployment, GRC (Global Resource Control)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Revenue-to-cost ratio +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Carlo Fuerst; Maciek Pacut; Paolo Costa; Stefan Schmid
- Publication: ICNP 2015 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Carlo Fuerst; Maciek Pacut; Paolo Costa; Stefan Schmid
- Keywords: Placement
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
A Multi-objective Ant Colony System algorithm for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Computing
- Publication: JCSS 2013 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Panpan Jin; Xincai Fei; Qixia Zhang; Fangming Liu; Bo Li
- Keywords: Deployment, ACS (Ant Colony System), Multi-objective
- Objective: Placement cost -, Energy consumption -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore

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3.4 Scheduling

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: IEEE Xplore
SAFE: Service Availability via Failure Elimination Through VNF Scaling
- Publication: TON 2021 (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: IEEE Xplore
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: Joint, Deployment, Scheduling, Mobile Edge Computing
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Joint Resource Optimization and Delay-aware Virtual Network Function Migration in Data Center Networks
- Publication: TNSM 2021 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Biyi Li; Bo Cheng; Xuan Liu; Meng Wang; Yi Yue; Junliang Chen
- Keywords: Scheduling, Migration, Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -, Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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, Reliabilty
- Objective: Cost -, Reliabilty +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore

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: ACM DL
An Online Algorithm for VNF Service Chain Scaling in Datacenters
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ziyue Luo; Chuan Wu
- Keywords: Scheduling, Scaling
- Objective: Deployment cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
On Parallel and Hitless vSDN Reconfiguration
- Publication: TON 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Sicheng Zhao, Xing Wu, Zuqing Zhu
- Keywords: Reconfiguration
- Objective: Parallelism +
- Link: ACM DL
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Finedge: A Dynamic Cost-Efficient Edge Resource Management Platform for NFV Network
- Publication: ICWS 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Miao Li; Qixia Zhang; Fangming Liu
- Keywords: Scheduling
- Objective: QoS +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: ScienceDirect
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, Dynamic
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
TerrierTail: Mitigating Tail Latency of Cloud Virtual Machines
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Esmail Asyabi; SeyedAlireza SanaeeKohroudi; Mohsen Sharifi; Azer Bestavros
- Keywords: Scheduling, Latency
- Objective: Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: Thoughtout +, cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Mobile Edge Cloud Network Design Optimization
- Publication: TON 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Alberto Ceselli; Marco Premoli; Stefano Secc
- Keywords: Scheduling
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Cluster-Aware Virtual Machine Collaborative Migration in Media Cloud
- Publication: TPDS 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Lingfang Zeng; Yang Wang; Xiaopeng Fan; Chengzhong Xu
- Keywords: Scheduling
- Objective: Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
OpenBox: A Software-Defined Framework for Developing, Deploying, and Managing Network Functions
- Publication: TPDS 2017 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Weizhan Zhang; Yuxuan Chen; Xiang Gao; Zhichao Mo; Qinghua Zheng; Zongqing Lu
- Keywords: Chaining, Deployment, Scheduling, Migration, Joint
- Objective: Framework
- Link: ACM DL
Cache contention aware Virtual Machine placement and migration in cloud datacenters
- Publication: ICNP 2016 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yossi Kanizo; Ori Rottenstreich; Itai Segall; Jose Yallouz
- Keywords: Scheduling, Migration, Cache
- Objective: Throughput +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore

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3.5 Routing

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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Software-defined Internet of Multimedia Things: Energy-efficient and Load-balanced Resource Management
- Publication: IoTJ 2021 (JCR-1)
- Authors: Jianhang Tang; Jiangtian Nie; Zehui Xiong; Jun Zhao; Yang Zhang; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Routing, IoT, Energy, Load Balancing
- Objective: Energy consumption -, Load Balancing +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Congestion Minimization for Service Chain Routing Problems With Path Length Considerations
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Lingnan Gao; George N. Rouskas
- Keywords: Routing
- Objective: Congestion -
- Link: IEEE Xplore

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: IEEE Xplore
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
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Throughput-Optimal Broadcast in Wireless Networks with Dynamic Topology
- Publication: TMC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Abhishek Sinha; Leandros Tassiulas; Eytan Modiano
- Keywords: Routing, Dynamic
- Objective: Throughput +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Shortest Path and Maximum Flow Problems Under Service Function Chaining Constraints
- Publication: INFOCOM 2018 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Gamal Sallam, Gagan R. Gupta, Bin Li, and Bo Ji
- Keywords: Routing, Constrained
- Objective: Running time -
- Link: paper
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: ACM DL

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4. Machine Learning-based Methods

This is an interesting and promising research direction, looking forward to your participation!

4.1 Slicing

A Constrained Reinforcement Learning Based Approach for Network Slicing
- Publication: ICNP 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Yongshuai Liu; Jiaxin Ding; Xin Liu
- Keywords: Slicing
- Objective: /
- Link: IEEE Xplore

4.2 Chaining

Fair and Scalable Orchestration of Network and Compute Resources for Virtual Edge Services
- Publication: TMC 2023 (CCF-A) (Early Access)
- Authors: Sharda Tripathi; Corrado Puligheddu; Somreeta Pramanik; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
- Keywords: Chaining, DQN, Pareto analysis Autoencoder
- Objective: Fair +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
EvrAIn: 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: IEEE Xplore
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Multi-Domain Network Resource Orchestration Based on Virtual Network Architecture: A DRL Method
- Publication: TITS 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Peiying Zhang; Chao Wang; Neeraj Kumar; Lei Liu
- Keywords: Chaining, Deployment, Multi-Domain, DQN
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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 , and Jia Hu
- Keywords: Chaining, Deployment, DQN, FL (Federated Learning)
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore

4.3 Deployment

FlagVNE: A Flexible and Generalizable Reinforcement Learning Framework for Network Resource Allocation
- Publication: IJCAI 2024 (CCF-A)
- 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 2023 (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: IEEE Xplore
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: TPDS 2021 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Shaoyang Wang; Chau Yuen; Wei Ni; Yong Liang Guan; Tiejun Lvi
- Keywords: Deployment, Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning, deep deterministic policy gradient
- Objective: Cost -, Latency -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
A-DDPG: Attention Mechanism-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for NFV
- Publication: IWQoS 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Nan He, S. Yang, Fan Li, S. Trajanovski, F.A. Kuipers, Xiaoming Fu
- Keywords: Deployment, Attention, DDPG, Latency
- Objective: Placement cost -, Latency -
- Link: paper
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: paper, code
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: IEEE Xplore
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 Dehury, Prasan Kumar Sahoo
- Keywords: Deployment, Q-learning, ML(Machine Learning), Multi-Stage
- Objective: Long-term average revenue +, Placement cost -
- Link: paper
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
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Power consumption -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
A Dynamic Reliability-Aware Service Placement for Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Publication: JSAC 2020 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Zhongxia Yan, Jingguo Ge, Yulei Wu, Liangxiong Li, Tong Li
- Keywords: Deployment, Dynamic Reliability-aware, MDP (Markov Decision Process), Viterbi algorithm
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Placement cost -
- Link: arXiv
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: IEEE Xplore
A Dynamic and Collaborative Multi-Layer Virtual Network Embedding Algorithm in SDN Based on Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TNSM 2020 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Mohammad Karimzadeh-Farshbafan; Vahid Shah-Mansouri; Dusit Niyato
- Keywords: Deployment, Collaborative, Multi-Layer, REINFORCE
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Long-term average revenue +
- Link: IEEE Xplore
DDQP: A Double Deep Q-Learning Approach to Online Fault-Tolerant SFC Placement
- Publication: TNSM 2020 (JCR-Q1)
- Authors: Lei Wang; Weixi Mao; Jin Zhao; Yuedong Xu
- Keywords: Deployment, DDQN
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
A Continuous-Decision Virtual Network Embedding Scheme Relying on Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: TNSM 2020 (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: IEEE Xplore
Multi-domain Non-cooperative VNF-FG Embedding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
- Publication: INFOCOM 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Pham Tran Anh Quang, Abbas Bradai, Kamal Deep Singh, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul
- Keywords: Deployment, DDPG (Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient), Multi-domain, Non-cooperative
- Link: paper
DeepViNE: Virtual Network Embedding with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: INFOCOM 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Mahdi Dolati, Seyedeh Bahereh Hassanpour, Majid Ghaderi, Ahmad Khonsari
- Keywords: Deployment, DQN (Deep Q Network), Multi-channels Representations
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: paper
Virtual Network Function Placement Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: JSAC 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Ruben Solozabal, Josu Ceberio, Aitor Sanchoyerto, Luis Zabala, Bego Blanco, Fidel Liberal
- Keywords: Deployment, PG (Policy Gradient), Seq2Seq (Sequence-to-Sequence)
- Objective: Energy consumption -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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 Zomaya; Hai Jin
- Keywords: Deployment, DDPG, Latency
- Objective: Acceptance rate +, Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: paper
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: ScienceDirect
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: IEEE Xplore
Virtual Network Embedding via Monte Carlo Tree Search
- Publication: IEEE Trans on Cybernetics 2018 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Soroush Haeri and Ljiljana Trajkovi´c
- Keywords: Deployment, MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search)
- Objective: Revenue-to-cost +, Acceptance rate +
- Link: paper
Knowledge-Defined Networking
- Publication: CCNC 2017
- Authors: Oussama Soualah, Marouen Mechtri, Chaima Ghribi, Djamal Zeghlache
- Keywords: Deployment, MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search)
- Objective: Acceptance rate +
- Link: paper
An Efficient Algorithm for Virtual Network Function Placement and Chaining
- Publication: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2017
- Authors: Albert Mestres et al.
- Keywords: Placement an so on
- Objective: /
- Link: paper
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: IEEE Xplore

4.4 Scheduling

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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Towards Chain-Aware Scaling Detection in NFV with Reinforcement Learning
- Publication: IWQOS 2021 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Lin He; Lis han Li; Ying Liu
- Keywords: Scaling ,A3C
- Objective: Cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Virtual Network Functions Migration Cost: from Identification to Prediction
- Publication: CN 2020 (CCF-B)
- Authors: Rafael de JesusMartins, Cristiano Bonato Both, Juliano Araújo Wickboldt, Lisandro Zambenedett iGranville
- Keywords: Scheduling, SL, Linear regression
- Objective: A novel architecture for orchestrating and enforcing multi-domain SFCs
- Link: ScienceDirect
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: Scheduling, Latency-awareness, flow, DDPG (Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient)
- Objective: Latency -, Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Study of Reconfiguration Cost and Energy Aware VNE Policies in Cycle-Stationary Traffic Scenarios
- Publication: JASC 2016 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Tung-Wei Kuo; Bang-Heng Liou; Kate Ching-Ju Lin; Ming-Jer Tsai
- Keywords: Deployment, Reconfiguration, Joint, Energy, Cycle-Stationary Traffic, MDP
- Objective: Placement cost -
- Link: IEEE Xplore

4.5 Routing

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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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 (Surpervised Learning), GNN
- Link: arXiv
Routing or Computing? The Paradigm Shift Towards Intelligent Computer Network Packet Transmission Based on Deep Learning
- Publication: TC 2019 (CCF-A)
- Authors: Bomin Mao; Zubair Md. Fadlullah; Fengxiao Tang; Nei Kato; Osamu Akashi; Takeru Inoue; Kimihiro Mizutani
- Keywords: Routing, SL (Surpervised Learning)
- Link: IEEE Xplore
Learning to Route
- Publication: HotNets 2017
- Authors: Asaf Valadarsky, Michael Schapira, Dafna Shahaf, Aviv Tamar
- Keywords: Route, RL
- Objective: Automatically generate "good" routing configurations
- Link: paper

5. Other and Unclassified

Here are two types of papers: one is related to other topics of NFV and SDN and waiting to be classified; the other is the latest research work collected from arXiv.

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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
Performance Tuning via Lean Measurements for Acceleration of Network Functions Virtualization
- Publication: TON 2022 (CCF-A) (Early Access)
- Authors: Qiang Wu; Xiangping Bryce Zhai; Xi Liu; Chun-Ming Wu; Fangliang Lou; Hongke Zhang
- Keywords: Acceleration
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
KPI Guarantees in Network Slicing
- Publication: TON 2021 (CCF-A) (Early Access)
- Authors: Jorge Martín-Pérez; Francesco Malandrino; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini; Milan Groshev; Carlos J. Bernardos
- Keywords: Performance
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
The Greatest Teacher, Failure is: Using Reinforcement Learning for SFC Placement Based on Availability and Energy Consumption
- Authors: Guto Leoni Santos, Theo Lynn, Judith Kelner, Patricia Takako Endo
- Link: arXiv
Learning based E2E Energy Efficient in Joint Radio and NFV Resource Allocation for 5G and Beyond Networks
- Authors: Narges Gholipoor, Ali Nouruzi, Shima Salarhosseini, Mohammad Reza Javan, Nader Mokari, Eduard A. Jorswieck
- Link: arXiv
When SRv6 meets 5G Core: Implementation and Deployment of a Network Service Chaining Function in SmartNICs
- Authors: Guilherme Matos, Fabio Luciano Verdi, Luis Miguel Contreras, Leandro C. de Almeida
- Link: arXiv
End-to-End Delay Guaranteed SFC Deployment: A Multi-level Mapping Approach
- Authors: Fatemeh Yaghoubpour, Bahador Bakhshi, Fateme Seifi
- Link: arXiv
Service Function Chaining in MEC: A Mean-Field Game and Reinforcement Learning Approach
- Authors: Amine Abouaomar, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Zoubeir Mlika, Abdellatif Kobbane
- Link: arXiv
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: 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: 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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: Security
- Link: IEEE Xplore
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: ACM DL
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: 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: IEEE Xplore
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: IEEE Xplore
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: 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: IEEE Xplore

Contributing

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# Exemples

## A template of the survey / analysis

1. **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`: [IEEE Xplore](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9169857)

## A template of the research paper

1. **An Online Algorithm for VNF Service Chain Scaling in Datacenters**

- `Publication`: TON 2020 (**CCF-A**)
- `Authors`: Ziyue Luo, Chuan Wu
- `Keywords`: Scheduling, Deployment, ILP (Integer Linear Program), Regularization, Rounding
- `Objective`: Minimize the operating cost and deployment cost
- `Link`: [paper](https://i.cs.hku.hk/~cwu/papers/zyluo-ton19.pdf)

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