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Title: | Network functions virtualization: the long road to commercial deployments |
Author: | Rehman, A. U. Aguiar, Rui L. Barraca, João Paulo |
Keywords: | Network functions virtualization Virtual network functions Server virtualization Hypervisors Containers Unikernels Network management and orchestration Network programmability Network softwarization |
Issue Date: | 7-May-2019 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Abstract: | Network operators are under pressure to offer efficient network-based services while keeping service deployment costs to a minimum. Network functions virtualization (NFV) can potentially revolutionize network-based services bringing low-deployment costs for network operators. The NFV has been introduced to ultimately extend the non-proprietary and open-standard-based model to network and service deployments, significant improvements to today’s proprietary locked implementations. Notwithstanding the continuous efforts of both academia and industry to support the NFV paradigm, the current NFV solutions offered are still in its infancy. In this survey, we provide a detailed background of NFV to establish a comprehensive understanding of the subject, ranging from the basics to more advanced topics. Moreover, we offer a comprehensive overview of the NFV main concepts, standardization efforts, the benefits of NFV, and discussions of the NFV architecture as defined by the European telecommunications standardization institute (ETSI). Furthermore, we discuss the NFV applicability and current open source projects. We then highlight NFV requirements, design considerations, and developmental architectural impairments and barriers to commercial NFV deployments. Finally, we conclude enumerating future directions for NFV development |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/31135 |
DOI: | 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2915195 |
Publisher Version: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8708314 |
Appears in Collections: | DETI - Artigos IT - Artigos |
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