Dynamic Flow Migration for Embedded Services in SDN/NFV-Enabled 5G Core Networks - Qu, Kaige; Zhuang, Weihua; Ye, Qiang; Shen, Xuemin; Li, Xu; Rao, Jaya (IEEE transactions on communications, 2020)
Keywords: 5G mobile communication; Algorithms; Communication networks; Delays; dynamic flow migration; Dynamic scheduling; Embedding; end-to-end (E2E) delay; Heuristic methods; Mixed integer; Multiple objective analysis; Network function virtualization; network slicing; Optimization; Post-production processing; Provisioning; Quality of service; Quality of service architectures; Reconfiguration; Resource management; SDN/NFV-enabled 5G networks; Service function chaining (SFC); Software; Software-defined networking; Tradeoffs; Traffic delay; VNF state transfer