Approximation and Online Algorithms for NFV-Enabled Multicasting in SDNs - Zichuan Xu; Weifa Liang; Meitian Huang; Mike Jia; Song Guo; Galis, Alex (Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2017)
Keywords: Approximation algorithms; approximation and online algorithms; Bandwidth; Heuristic algorithms; Middleboxes; Multicast communication; multicasting; Network function virtualization; NFV-enabled multicasting; Optical switches; Servers; service chains; software-defined networks; virtualized network functions