Kong, JianKim, I.Wang, X.Zhang, Q.Xie, W.Cankaya, H. C.Wang, N.Ikeuchi, T.Jue, Jason P.2019-07-262019-07-262018-03-119781943580385https://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/6735Full text access from Treasures at UT Dallas is restricted to current UTD affiliates (use the provided Link to Article).Considering the availability of the datacenter's network elements, we propose a coordinated protection mechanism that adopts both backup path protection and SFC replicas distributed among datacenters to support high availability while reducing total cost.en©2018 OSAOptical fibersData centersHeuristic algorithmsCloud computingarticleKong, J., I. Kim, X. Wang, Q. Zhang, et al. 2018. "Guaranteed-availability network function virtualization in inter-datacenter networks." Proceedings -- Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition: 1-3,