Research Directions in Network Service Chaining

@article{John2013ResearchDI,
  title={Research Directions in Network Service Chaining},
  author={Wolfgang John and Kostas Pentikousis and George Agapiou and Eduardo Jacob and Mario Kind and Antonio Manzalini and Fulvio Risso and Dimitri Staessens and Rebecca Steinert and Catalin Meirosu},
  journal={2013 IEEE SDN for Future Networks and Services (SDN4FNS)},
  year={2013},
  pages={1-7},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9770534}
}
This paper details prominent research challenges during the typical lifecycle of a network service chain in an operational telecommunications network, including service chain description, programming, deployment, and debugging, and summarizes the security considerations.
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