• A Reliability-Aware Network Service Chain Provisioning with Delay Guarantees in NFV-Enabled Enterprise Datacenter Networks 

      Qu, Long; Assi, Chadi; Shaban, Khaled; Khabbaz, Maurice J. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      Traditionally, service-specific network functions (NFs) (e.g., Firewall, intrusion detection system, etc.) are executed by installation-and maintenance-costly hardware middleboxes that are deployed within a datacenter ...
    • Delay-Aware Scheduling and Resource Optimization with Network Function Virtualization 

      Qu, Long; Assi, Chadi; Shaban, Khaled ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      To accelerate the implementation of network functions/middle boxes and reduce the deployment cost, recently, the concept of network function virtualization (NFV) has emerged and become a topic of much interest attracting ...
    • Network function virtualization scheduling with transmission delay optimization 

      Qu, Long; Assi, Chadi; Shaban, Khaled ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      To accelerate the implementation of network functions/middle boxes and reduce the deployment cost, recently the concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has emerged and became a topic of much interest attracting ...
    • Prioritizing deadline-constrained data flows in cloud datacenter networks 

      Khabbaz, Maurice; Shaban, Khaled; Assi, Chadi; Qu, Long ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Real-time interactive application workloads (e.g. web search, social networking, etc.) are composed of a remarkably large number of mini request partitions that require stringent delayminimal aggregation of responses and ...
    • Reliability-aware service provisioning in NFV-enabled enterprise datacenter networks 

      Qu, Long; Assi, Chadi; Shaban, Khaled; Khabbaz, Maurice ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Network Function Visualization (NFV) enables the complete decoupling of Network Functions (NFs) (e.g., firewall, intrusion detection, routing, etc.) from physical middleboxes used to implement service-specific and strictly ...