I suggest for you to read this research

"Network virtualization and software defined networking for cloud computing: a survey"

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Dear Emanuel Coutinho,

the two concepts of cloud computing (CC) and NFV complement each other ideally and have an important significance for the IoT. The integration of CC and NFV in the IoT allows to create a variety of interesting new IoT services. In IoT, virtualized network features (that is, NFV instances) can be provided as a kind of mini-clouds (or micro-clouds). Mini-clouds in the IoT enable the realization of widely distributed and time-critical IoT services. In this case we speak of fog computing. Mini-Clouds (as NFV instances) can also be located in WSNs, this means at the edge of the Internet (in so-called endge components). This means edge computing.

The NFV instances provide intelligence. This intelligence makes it possible to realize a new type of computing, so-called cognitive computing, both in mini-clouds (Fog Computing) and in edge components (Edge Computing). This is especially important in the IoRT (Internet of Robotic Things).

Of great importance is the integration of SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NFV for the IoT. An SDN controller can be realized in a cloud. If a hierarchical structure of SDN controllers is required, this structure can be set up as a cloud hierarchy. The SDN switches can be implemented as NFV instances and provided as clouds. Consequently, one type of integration CC and NFV is the integration of SDN and NFV.

For the future container networking, the integration of SDN and NFV (in fact the integration CC and NFV) is of great importance. With Container Networking, the NFV instances can be transported in containers. Multiple distributed NFV instances can be orchestrated using SDN controllers. New Internet of Vehicles (IoV) services can be provided through container networking and orchestration of NFV mobile instances in Cluods and / or Mini Clouds (Fog). In this way, various IoV services can be organized to support autonomous driving.

When integrating CC and NFV, the concept of SFC (Service Function Chaining) can play an important role.

The literature sources listed here show some of these ideas.

Good luck and best regards

Anatol Badach

SDN/NFV-based Internet-of-Things

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3102319

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7563828/

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7848825/

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7073808/

Orchestration of IoT Services

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7537713/

SDN-based IoT Framework with NFV Implementation

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01197042/document

A SDN-IoT Architecture with NFV Implementation

http://www.laneas.com/sites/default/files/publications/1/J21.pdf

A Software-Defined Approach for End-to-end IoT Networking

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/91/slides/slides-91-sdnrg-3.pdf

Container Network Functions

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7945849/

For the basic ideas of SDN, NFV and SFC see:

For SDN the figures 005455, 5466 and 5458 in:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281408584_SDN_-_Software_Defined_Networking

For NFV the figures 007012, 7013 and 7017 in:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281554379_NFV_-_Network_Functions_Virtualisation

For SFC the figures 007101, 7102, 7103, 7105 and 7107 in:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280569318_SFC_Service_Function_Chaining

Thanks!