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Meeting Consumer Demand: Supporting Efficient Services Deployment for Cloud-Connected Devices

Iván Bernabé-Sánchez¹, Daniel Dı́az-Sánchez², Alberto Fernández¹, Holger Billhardt¹ and Sascha Ossowski¹

1. CETINIA, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
   Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles (Madrid)
   {ivan.bernabe,alberto.fernandez,holger.billhardt,sascha.ossowski}@urjc.es
2. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
   Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés (Madrid)
   dds@it.uc3m.es

Abstract

The demand for digital services driven by the growth of internet-connected devices and consumer needs is constantly increasing. Therefore, the provision of services to achieve a good user experience is becoming crucial. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has been established as a key technology for service providers. NFV decouples network functions from hardware devices by allowing network services, called virtualized network functions (VNF), to be hosted on commodity hardware, simplifying and making service deployment more flexible. The placement of VNFs within infrastructure presents a critical technical challenge due to its direct impact on network performance, reliability, and operational costs. This article presents a service architecture that can be integrated with network service managers to identify priorities that should be taken into account when deploying VNFs or services in infrastructures. The proposed solution collects information about the network service to be deployed and analyzes and evaluates its requirements by comparing them with operating patterns. As a result, recommendations for the deployment of each service are obtained. The solution also proposes a provisioning service which, based on the generated recommendations, adapts the configuration files for deployment and connects with the configuration management tools to automate the deployment.

Key words

VNF placement, Resource Allocation, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Network function virtualization, Service function chain

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS250915076B

Publication information

Volume 23, Issue 1 (January 2026)
Year of Publication: 2026
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Bernabé-Sánchez, I., Dı́az-Sánchez, D., Fernández, A., Billhardt, H., Ossowski, S.: Meeting Consumer Demand: Supporting Efficient Services Deployment for Cloud-Connected Devices. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1, 231-253. (2026), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS250915076B