Software-Defined Network Function Virtualization: A Survey

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 3; pp. 2542 - 2553
• Main Authors: Li, Yong, Chen, Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2015; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Chaining; Computer architecture; Control systems; Hardware; Home appliances; middlebox; network function virtualization; network virtualization; Optimization; Provisioning; Servers; service chain; Software; Software-defined networking; Software-defined networks; Steering; Virtual networks; Virtualization; service chain; network function virtualization; network virtualization; Software-defined networks; middlebox

Diverse proprietary network appliances increase both the capital and operational expense of service providers, meanwhile causing problems of network ossification. Network function virtualization (NFV) is proposed to address these issues by implementing network functions as pure software on commodity...