Throughput Maximization of NFV-Enabled Multicasting in Mobile Edge Cloud Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 393 - 407
• Main Authors: Ma, Yu, Liang, Weifa, Wu, Jie, Xu, Zichuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.02.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Allocations; Applications programs; Approximation algorithms; Bandwidth; Cloud computing; Computer simulation; distributed resource allocation and provisioning; Edge computing; End users; Energy storage; Heuristic algorithms; Maximization; Mobile computing; Mobile edge-cloud networks (MEC); Multicast algorithms; Multicasting; NFV-enabled multicast requests; online algorithms; Optimization; Performance evaluation; Provisioning; Resource management; Servers; service function chains (SFCs); Steiner tree problems; Task analysis; Throughput; throughput maximization; Virtual networks; virtualized network function (VNF); VNF instance placement and sharing; Wireless networks

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reforms the cloud paradigm by bringing unprecedented computing capacity to the vicinity of end users at the mobile network edge. This provides end users with swift and powerful computing and storage capacities, energy efficiency, and mobility- and context-awareness suppor...