A Scalable Algorithm for the Placement of Service Function Chains

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 533-546

  Mechtri, Marouen ^a   Ghribi, Chaima ^a   Zeghlache, Djamal ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed cloud environments; eigendecomposition; function placement and chaining; Virtual network function

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ADJACENCY MATRICES; DISTRIBUTED CLOUDS; EIGEN DECOMPOSITION; OPERATIONAL EXPENSE; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; SCALABLE ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84991396242     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2016.2598068     Document Type: Article

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