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Neutron flux parameters and resonance integrals
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NFV Orchestrator Placement for Geo-Distributed Systems
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) developed Network
Functions Virtualization (NFV) Management and Orchestration (MANO) framework.
Within that framework, NFV orchestrator (NFVO) and Virtualized Network Function
(VNF) Manager (VNFM) functional blocks are responsible for managing the
lifecycle of network services and their associated VNFs. However, they face
significant scalability and performance challenges in large-scale and
geo-distributed NFV systems. Their number and location have major implications
for the number of VNFs that can be accommodated and also for the overall system
performance. NFVO and VNFM placement is therefore a key challenge due to its
potential impact on the system scalability and performance. In this paper, we
address the placement of NFVO and VNFM in large-scale and geo-distributed NFV
infrastructure. We provide an integer linear programming formulation of the
problem and propose a two-step placement algorithm to solve it. We also conduct
a set of experiments to evaluate the proposed algorithm.Comment: This paper has been accepted for presentation in 16th IEEE
International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2017
Proteome analyses of hepatocellular carcinoma
Proteomics has evolved into a powerful and widely used bioanalytical technique in the study of cancer, especially hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In this review, we provide an up to date overview of feasible proteome-analytical techniques for clinical questions. In addition, we present a broad summary of proteomic studies of HCC utilizing various
technical approaches for the analysis of samples derived from diverse sources like HCC cell lines, animal models, human tissue and body fluids
A Virtual Network PaaS for 3GPP 4G and Beyond Core Network Services
Cloud computing and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are emerging as key
technologies to overcome the challenges facing 4G and beyond mobile systems.
Over the last few years, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has gained momentum and
has become more widely adopted throughout IT enterprises. It simplifies the
applications provisioning and accelerates time-to-market while lowering costs.
Telco can leverage the same model to provision the 4G and beyond core network
services using NFV technology. However, many challenges have to be addressed,
mainly due to the specificities of network services. This paper proposes an
architecture for a Virtual Network Platform-as-a-Service (VNPaaS) to provision
3GPP 4G and beyond core network services in a distributed environment. As an
illustrative use case, the proposed architecture is employed to provision the
3GPP Home Subscriber Server (HSS) as-a-Service (HSSaaS). The HSSaaS is built
from Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) resulting from a novel decomposition
of HSS. A prototype is implemented and early measurements are made.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, 5th IEEE International Conference on
Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2016
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