{"title":"Cloud Management Using Network Function Virtualization to Reduce CAPEX and OPEX","authors":"Ananth M. D., Rinki Sharma","doi":"10.1109/CICN.2016.17","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As the users on the cloud network increase, the consumption of the Compute, Network and Storage resources also increases. This leads to increase in the cost of deployment, configuration and maintenance. Hence, the Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditure (OPEX) of the organization providing the cloud network increases. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a technology which virtualizes network functionalities. This paper studies the influence of NFV on CAPEX and OPEX of cloud based networks and compares it with traditional implementation (without NFV) of such networks. A prototype cloud networkbased on NFV implementation is developed and implemented. Based on the test cases developed on the prototype, CAPEX and OPEX of the resources used for both NFV based and traditional implementations are studied and analyzed. RESTful web services are created for the users of the cloud network to orchestrate and manage the network on the cloud. The results accomplished show that NFV based implementation reduces the CAPEX and OPEX, when compared with the traditional implementation. It is also observed that orchestration mechanism reduces complexity of management of cloud network.","PeriodicalId":189849,"journal":{"name":"2016 8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICN.2016.17","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
As the users on the cloud network increase, the consumption of the Compute, Network and Storage resources also increases. This leads to increase in the cost of deployment, configuration and maintenance. Hence, the Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditure (OPEX) of the organization providing the cloud network increases. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a technology which virtualizes network functionalities. This paper studies the influence of NFV on CAPEX and OPEX of cloud based networks and compares it with traditional implementation (without NFV) of such networks. A prototype cloud networkbased on NFV implementation is developed and implemented. Based on the test cases developed on the prototype, CAPEX and OPEX of the resources used for both NFV based and traditional implementations are studied and analyzed. RESTful web services are created for the users of the cloud network to orchestrate and manage the network on the cloud. The results accomplished show that NFV based implementation reduces the CAPEX and OPEX, when compared with the traditional implementation. It is also observed that orchestration mechanism reduces complexity of management of cloud network.