@techreport{vazquez-nfvrg-netcod-function-virtualization-02,
    number =    {draft-vazquez-nfvrg-netcod-function-virtualization-02},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vazquez-nfvrg-netcod-function-virtualization/02/},
    author =    {M.A. Vazquez-Castro and Tan Do-Duy and Simon Pietro Romano and Antonia Maria Tulino},
    title =     {{Network Coding Function Virtualization}},
    pagetotal = 17,
    year =      2017,
    month =     nov,
    day =       16,
    abstract =  {This document describes network coding as a network function. It also describes how a network coding function can be virtualized and integrated with virtual network functions architectures. The network coding function is not a traditionally implemented network function in dedicated hardware as those that have triggered network function virtualization. It refers to a novel network functionality that generalizes classic packet-level end-to-end coding. Classic packet- level end-to-end coding helps in the provision of quality of service by trading off delay and reliability. Network coding goes beyond that by enabling in-network optimized re-encoding, which can provide both throughput gains and diverse network-controlled degrees of reliability. Consequently, a virtualized network coding function can serve as a flow engineering tool over virtualized networks (e.g. over network slices).},
}