Keyword

network function virtualization

Description: A network architecture that implements communication functions as software on general-purpose hardware rather than dedicated network appliances.

Primary topic: Software-Defined Networks and 5G (77%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q7000834

OpenAlex ID: keywords/network-function-virtualization

Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges

2015 · Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 1,925

Internet of Things (IoT) for Next-Generation Smart Systems: A Review of Current Challenges, Future Trends and Prospects for Emerging 5G-IoT Scenarios

2020 · Kinza Shafique, Bilal A. Khawaja, et al. · IEEE Access · 1,357

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Network function virtualization: Challenges and opportunities for innovations

2015 · Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine · 1,167

A Survey on Mobile Edge Networks: Convergence of Computing, Caching and Communications

2017 · Shuo Wang, Xing Zhang, et al. · IEEE Access · 950

Resource Allocation in NFV: A Comprehensive Survey

2016 · Juliver Gil Herrera, Juan Felipe Botero · IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 905

A Survey on Low Latency Towards 5G: RAN, Core Network and Caching Solutions

2018 · Imtiaz Parvez, Ali Rahmati, et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 883

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Future Edge Cloud and Edge Computing for Internet of Things Applications

2017 · Jianli Pan, James McElhannon · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 868

Network Slicing for 5G with SDN/NFV: Concepts, Architectures, and Challenges

2017 · Jose Ordonez-Lucena, Pablo Ameigeiras, et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine · 837

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5G network slicing using SDN and NFV: A survey of taxonomy, architectures and future challenges

2019 · Alcardo Alex Barakabitze, Arslan Ahmad, et al. · Computer Networks · 816

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A new distributed architecture for evaluating AI-based security systems at the edge: Network TON_IoT datasets

2021 · Nour Moustafa · Sustainable Cities and Society · 731

ClickOS and the Art of Network Function Virtualization

2014 · Joao Martins, Mohamed Ahmed, et al. · 698

Fog-computing-based radio access networks: issues and challenges

2016 · Mugen Peng, Shi Yan, et al. · IEEE Network · 661

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Service Function Chaining (SFC) Architecture

2015 · 659

Internet of Things for the Future of Smart Agriculture: A Comprehensive Survey of Emerging Technologies

2021 · Othmane Friha, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, et al. · IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica · 638

Making middleboxes someone else's problem

2012 · Justine Sherry, Shaddi Hasan, et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication (SIGCOMM) · 621

Design considerations for a 5G network architecture

2014 · Patrick Agyapong, Mikio Iwamura, et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine · 611

A comprehensive survey of Network Function Virtualization

2018 · Bo Yi, Xingwei Wang, et al. · Computer Networks · 534

Near optimal placement of virtual network functions

2015 · Rami Cohen, Liane Lewin-Eytan, et al. · 525

Specifying and placing chains of virtual network functions

2014 · Sevil Mehraghdam, Matthias Keller, et al. · IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking · 518

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An Overview of Network Slicing for 5G

2019 · Shunliang Zhang · IEEE Wireless Communications · 513

Toward Edge Intelligence: Multiaccess Edge Computing for 5G and Internet of Things