A Genetic Algorithm for VNF Provisioning in NFV-Enabled Cloud/MEC RAN Architectures

5G technologies promise to bring new network and service capacities and are expected to introduce significant architectural and service deployment transformations. The Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) architecture, enabled by the combination of Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function...

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Main Authors: Lidia Ruiz, Ramón J. Durán, Ignacio de Miguel, Pouria S. Khodashenas, Jose-Juan Pedreño-Manresa, Noemí Merayo, Juan C. Aguado, Pablo Pavón-Marino, Shuaib Siddiqui, Javier Mata, Patricia Fernández, Rubén M. Lorenzo, Evaristo J. Abril
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-12-01
Series:Applied Sciences
Subjects:
5G
NFV
SDN
VNF
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/12/2614