Reducing Service Deployment Cost Through VNF Sharing

Cost and Quality-of-Service-aware Network Service Deployment

This paper presents the information aggr egation methods enabling costand QoS-aware service deployment. It is expected that network management tools will require the network itself to participate in the service deployment task so as to adapt to heterogeneous networknodes cost, QoS, and capabilities. The aggregation methods are part of a set of hierarchically-distributed computations, for which ...

AutoVNF: An Automatic Resource Sharing Schema for VNF Requests

Nowadays, network function virtualization (NFV) receives widespread concerns from the whole society for its promising application. The main challenge for the deployment of VNF that comes along is the resource allocation of demanded network services in NFV-based network infrastructures. Current offline resource mapping and scheduling algorithms are impractical for continuous VNF requests in data...

Achieving Breakthrough Service Delivery Through Dynamic Asset Deployment Strategies

On Service Capacity Pooling and Cost Sharing Among Independent Firms

We analyze the benefit of service capacity pooling for a set of independent firms. Firms have the choice of either operating their own service facilities or investing in a facility that is shared. Firms decide on capacity levels to minimize delay and capacity investment costs. If firms decide to operate a shared facility they must also decide on a scheme for sharing the cost of capacity and on ...

Parametric Cost Deployment

Parametric cost analysis is a mathematical approach to estimating cost. Parametric cost analysis uses non-cost parameters, such as quality characteristics, to estimate the cost to bring forth, sustain, and retire a product. This paper reviews parametric cost analysis and shows how it can be used within the cost deployment process. INTRODUCTION Cost is the measure in monetary units of the work a...