Dynamic SFC placement scheme with parallelized SFCs and reuse of initialized VNFs: An A3C-based DRL approach

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a well-known network architecture that extends cloud computing to the network edge. Compared with cloud computing, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) can provide flexible services in MEC for mobile users. Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) have emerged as software-bas...

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Published in:	Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
Main Authors:	Hongsheng Xu, Ganglong Fan, Libo Sun, Wanxing Li, Guofang Kuang, Bo Fan, Gholamreza Ahmadi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Springer 2023-06-01
Subjects:	MEC Dynamic placement SFC Reuse of VNFs Parallelized SFCs A3C
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319157823001313