Abstract. New generation network services must be deployed and managed according to the specific customer requirements. In this context, service providers must devise a way to des...
—In mobile environment, it is very common that mobile devices periodically stay in disconnection mode. In a networked world as today, computer users rely on network services so h...
—With the increased network size and diversity, and the proliferation in applications and services, the network service providers are faced with a flood of information from many...
Custom packet processing functionality in routers is one of the key characteristics of next-generation Internet architectures. Network services have been proposed as an abstractio...