Network Function Virtualization: A Primer

A New Approach to Network Function Virtualization

A New Approach to Network Function Virtualization

Towards Database Virtualization for Database as a Service

Advances in operating system and storage-level virtualization technologies have enabled the effective consolidation of heterogeneous applications in a shared cloud infrastructure. Novel research challenges arising from this new shared environment include load balancing, workload estimation, resource isolation, machine replication, live migration, and an emergent need of automation to handle lar...

A Design of Heterogeneous Cloud Infrastructure for Big Data and Cloud Computing Services

Cloud computing and big data are two core services in many organizations. Combining a big data platform, such as Hadoop, into the cloud architecture using virtualization technique will result in losing the performance benefit of MapReduce. Unique for the existing virtualized big data cloud, this work introduces an innovative cloud architecture called the heterogeneous cloud. In the heterogeneou...

Container and Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) Virtualization for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) White Paper

Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization: bridging the world of virtual networks

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are two emerging and complementary concepts that can be considered as key players in the virtual networks world. In particular, SDN allows managing different network services through abstraction of higher-level functionality, while NFV leverages the use of virtualization technologies to virtualize specific network funct...