{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2803591282","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2019.2894287","title":"<italic>NFVactor</italic>: A Resilient NFV System Using the Distributed Actor Model","display_name":"<italic>NFVactor</italic>: A Resilient NFV System Using the Distributed Actor Model","publication_year":2019,"publication_date":"2019-02-05","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2803591282","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2019.2894287","mag":"2803591282"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/jsac.2019.2894287","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2019.2894287","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S90422530","display_name":"IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications","issn_l":"0733-8716","issn":["0733-8716","1558-0008"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5016658545","display_name":"Jingpu Duan","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-2197"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I3045169105","display_name":"Southern University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/049tv2d57","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I3045169105"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Jingpu Duan","raw_affiliation_strings":["Institute of Future Networks, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Institute of Future Networks, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I3045169105"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5020679643","display_name":"Xiaodong Yi","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-9543"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I889458895","display_name":"University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/02zhqgq86","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Xiaodong Yi","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5088629918","display_name":"Shixiong Zhao","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-2583"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I889458895","display_name":"University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/02zhqgq86","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Shixiong Zhao","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5012597518","display_name":"Chuan Wu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-4398"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I889458895","display_name":"University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/02zhqgq86","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Chuan Wu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5015360935","display_name":"Heming Cui","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7746-440X"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I889458895","display_name":"University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/02zhqgq86","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Heming Cui","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I889458895"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5057170324","display_name":"Franck Le","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0372-5045"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210114115","display_name":"IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center","ror":"https://ror.org/0265w5591","country_code":"US","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227","https://openalex.org/I4210114115"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Franck Le","raw_affiliation_strings":["IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210114115"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":3,"institutions_distinct_count":6,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5016658545"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I3045169105"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":2.1223,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":18,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.88078203,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"37","issue":"3","first_page":"586","last_page":"599"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10714","display_name":"Software-Defined Networks and 5G","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10714","display_name":"Software-Defined Networks and 5G","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10829","display_name":"Interconnection Networks and Systems","score":0.9994000196456909,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10502","display_name":"Advanced Memory and Neural Computing","score":0.9973000288009644,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2208","display_name":"Electrical and Electronic Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.8007203340530396},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/parallel-computing","display_name":"Parallel computing","score":0.41196727752685547}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.8007203340530396},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C173608175","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232661","display_name":"Parallel computing","level":1,"score":0.41196727752685547}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/jsac.2019.2894287","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2019.2894287","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S90422530","display_name":"IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications","issn_l":"0733-8716","issn":["0733-8716","1558-0008"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G8912150218","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"61628209","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","ror":"https://ror.org/01h0zpd94"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320322170","display_name":"University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/02zhqgq86"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":50,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W192446467","https://openalex.org/W1424350945","https://openalex.org/W1435010830","https://openalex.org/W1604047786","https://openalex.org/W1604234259","https://openalex.org/W1980568117","https://openalex.org/W1987575199","https://openalex.org/W2003597767","https://openalex.org/W2010365467","https://openalex.org/W2030438500","https://openalex.org/W2039579846","https://openalex.org/W2054820097","https://openalex.org/W2072794470","https://openalex.org/W2099964107","https://openalex.org/W2109404835","https://openalex.org/W2122192036","https://openalex.org/W2123372830","https://openalex.org/W2144127235","https://openalex.org/W2166975838","https://openalex.org/W2202294430","https://openalex.org/W2334220851","https://openalex.org/W2338760474","https://openalex.org/W2465005408","https://openalex.org/W2469021143","https://openalex.org/W2498885363","https://openalex.org/W2513515172","https://openalex.org/W2558154288","https://openalex.org/W2584654322","https://openalex.org/W2585627514","https://openalex.org/W2588404098","https://openalex.org/W2604403546","https://openalex.org/W2744954493","https://openalex.org/W2783547952","https://openalex.org/W2784261442","https://openalex.org/W2787983338","https://openalex.org/W2901823013","https://openalex.org/W2917904088","https://openalex.org/W6607881844","https://openalex.org/W6628430602","https://openalex.org/W6628561984","https://openalex.org/W6636118494","https://openalex.org/W6668719185","https://openalex.org/W6684764998","https://openalex.org/W6687889994","https://openalex.org/W6702795250","https://openalex.org/W6704247515","https://openalex.org/W6732765728","https://openalex.org/W6736076345","https://openalex.org/W6756906074","https://openalex.org/W6758925993"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1604898313","https://openalex.org/W2034393996","https://openalex.org/W2164287667","https://openalex.org/W4233815414","https://openalex.org/W2140418760","https://openalex.org/W2581223690","https://openalex.org/W2372170743","https://openalex.org/W1491899005","https://openalex.org/W2117014006","https://openalex.org/W1975269480"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Resilience":[0],"functionality,":[1],"including":[2],"failure":[3,21,57],"resilience":[4,58,120],"and":[5,59,81,144],"flow":[6,35,61,78,131],"migration,":[7],"is":[8,94,112,136],"of":[9,90],"pivotal":[10],"importance":[11],"in":[12],"practical":[13],"network":[14,109],"function":[15,110],"virtualization":[16],"(NFV)":[17],"systems.":[18],"However,":[19],"existing":[20,142],"recovery":[22],"procedures":[23],"incur":[24],"high":[25],"packet":[26,129,145],"processing":[27,146],"delay":[28,147],"due":[29,40],"to":[30,41,54,69],"heavyweight":[31],"process":[32],"checkpointing,":[33],"while":[34,87],"migration":[36,132],"has":[37],"poor":[38],"performance":[39],"centralized":[42],"control.":[43],"This":[44],"paper":[45],"proposes":[46],"NFVactor,":[47,115],"a":[48,71,97,107],"novel":[49],"NFV":[50],"system":[51],"that":[52,76,126,135],"aims":[53],"provide":[55,70],"lightweight":[56],"high-performance":[60],"migration.":[62],"NFVactorenables":[63],"these":[64],"by":[65,96],"using":[66],"actor":[67,92],"model":[68,93],"per-flow":[72],"execution":[73],"environment,":[74],"so":[75],"each":[77],"can":[79],"replicate":[80],"migrate":[82],"itself":[83],"with":[84],"improved":[85],"parallelism,":[86],"the":[88,91,116,141],"efficiency":[89],"guaranteed":[95],"carefully":[98],"designed":[99],"runtime":[100],"system.":[101],"Moreover,":[102],"NFVactorachieves":[103,127],"transparent":[104],"resilience:":[105],"once":[106],"new":[108],"(NF)":[111],"implemented":[113],"for":[114],"NF":[117],"automatically":[118],"acquires":[119],"support.":[121],"Our":[122],"evaluation":[123],"result":[124],"shows":[125],"10-Gbps":[128],"processing,":[130],"completion":[133],"time":[134],"144":[137],"times":[138],"faster":[139],"than":[140],"system,":[143],"stabilized":[148],"at":[149],"around":[150],"20":[151],"\u03bcs":[152],"during":[153],"replication.":[154]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2025-11-06T03:46:38.306776","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}