Throughput Maximization of NFV-Enabled Multicasting in Mobile Edge Cloud Networks - Ma, Yu; Liang, Weifa; Wu, Jie; Xu, Zichuan (IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems, 2020)
Keywords: Algorithms; Allocations; Applications programs; Approximation algorithms; Bandwidth; Cloud computing; Computer simulation; distributed resource allocation and provisioning; Edge computing; End users; Energy storage; Heuristic algorithms; Maximization; Mobile computing; Mobile edge-cloud networks (MEC); Multicast algorithms; Multicasting; NFV-enabled multicast requests; online algorithms; Optimization; Performance evaluation; Provisioning; Resource management; Servers; service function chains (SFCs); Steiner tree problems; Task analysis; Throughput; throughput maximization; Virtual networks; virtualized network function (VNF); VNF instance placement and sharing; Wireless networks