Optimal virtual network embedding: Energy aware formulation.

Network Virtualization is a key component of the Future Internet, providing the dynamic support of different networks with different paradigms and mechanisms in the same physical infrastructure. A major challenge in the dynamic provision of virtual networks is the embedding approach taking energy efficiency into account, while not affecting the overall Virtual Network (VN) acceptance ratio. Previous research focused on either designing heuristic-based algorithms to address the efficient embedding problem or to address the energy impact.