Oussama Soualah, Marouen Mechtri, Chaima Ghribi, D. Zeghlache
{"title":"A green VNFs placement and chaining algorithm","authors":"Oussama Soualah, Marouen Mechtri, Chaima Ghribi, D. Zeghlache","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406183","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an Integer Linear Program (ILP) to address Virtualized Network Function Forwarding Graph (VNF-FG) placement and chaining with Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) shared across tenants to optimize resource usage and increase provider revenue. The proposed algorithm selects a limited number of candidate hosts from the infrastructure to reduce the complexity of the ILP and scale with problem size. Results from extensive simulations report performance improvements in terms of rejection rate, energy consumption and scalability. Limiting the number of candidates is an efficient heuristic to ensure scalability.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"34 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81311453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IP/NDN: A multi-level translation and migration mechanism","authors":"Sheng Luo, Shangru Zhong, Kai Lei","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406213","url":null,"abstract":"Different from TCP/IP architecture, Named Data Networking (NDN) adopts a data-centric and in-network caching approach to achieve improved network efficiency and reduced traffic redundancy. As NDN begins to incrementally deploy on the real-world, there will be a hybrid network of TCP/IP and NDN during the transitional period. However, redeveloping TCP/IP- based applications for NDN is a daunting and time-consuming task. Thus, a more sensible and economical approach is to design an effective strategies for leveraging NDN to deliver IP datagrams and porting TCP/IP-based applications on NDN without changing its original code. Towards this end, this paper introduces three different migration methods at Internet layer, TCP layer and application layer, respectively to translate TCP/IP-based packets into NDN packets and run TCP/IP-based applications on NDN. By implementing these methods on a real NDN test-bed, we demonstrate the multi-level IP/NDN translation and migration mechanism is feasible. The analysis of testing results shows that each of the proposed methods is valid with varying benefits and costs: translating at TCP layer with more time overhead can have a less packets overhead than Internet layer. And when translated at application layer, the network load is reduced by half because of the in-network cache.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"61 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89401850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Raschellà, F. Bouhafs, M. Mackay, Q. Shi, J. Ortín, J. Gállego, M. Canales
{"title":"AP selection algorithm based on a potential game for large IEEE 802.11 WLANs","authors":"A. Raschellà, F. Bouhafs, M. Mackay, Q. Shi, J. Ortín, J. Gállego, M. Canales","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406147","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel Access Point (AP) selection strategy based on a potential game played at a centralized controller. The proposed approach relies on Software Defined Networking (SDN), which has long been considered in the literature as a method to control management functionalities for Wi-Fi networks. The use of SDN provides a global view of the network, which guarantees an efficient distribution of Wi-Fi users among the APs. The centralized potential game proposed in this paper is based on the Fittingness Factor (FF) concept, which is a metric reflecting the suitability of the available spectrum resources to the application requirements. This paper describes the development of a new SDN-based framework that implements the potential game-based algorithm relying on the FF for efficient AP selection. The simulation campaign illustrates the important gains, both in terms of data rates assigned to the Wi-Fi users and their satisfaction compared against the AP selection suggested by the IEEE 802.11 standards and another algorithm proposed in the literature.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87350839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization on parametric model","authors":"Fenfen Huang, Wenbin Yao","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406287","url":null,"abstract":"Neural networks are both computationally intensive and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems with large number of weights consume considerable storage and memory bandwidth. To address this limitation, pruning is an effective way to compress neural networks with high accuracy. To address this limitation, we proposed a method for optimization on parametric model. This method contains three steps. First, we train the network like conventional training. Next, we prune the unimportant connections and retrain the network to get the sparse weight matrix. Finally, we use Singularly Valuable Decomposition (SVD) to do further compression on the sparse weight matrix. Our experiments on MNIST dataset show that our method has the ability on reducing the model size by 4 times and the accuracy could still be kept over 90%.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"31 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83789481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptively scaled back-off (ASB) mechanism for enhanced performance of CSMA/CA in IEEE 802.11ax high efficiency WLAN","authors":"N. Shahin, R. Ali, S. Kim, Young-Tak Kim","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406219","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an adaptively scaled back-off (ASB) mechanism to mitigate the performance degradations in the Binary Exponential Back-off (BEB) of IEEE 802.11 CSMA/CA in the highly dense environment such as IEEE 802.11ax high efficiency WLAN (HEW). The proposed ASB mechanism selects the optimal CW size to achieve maximized network performance adaptively based on the measured conditional collision probability (pc) and the estimated number of contending stations. The ASB protocol can provide higher efficiency than the legacy Binary Exponential Back-off (BEB) that simply adjust the back-off contention window (CW) size by blind exponential increase at repeated collision avoidance and resetting to the minimum value (CWmin) at successful transmission. The performance analysis of the proposed ASB scheme with ns-3 network simulation shows that the proposed ASB scheme can achieve 21.14% higher throughput and take 32.45% less average interval between successful transmissions than the BEB mechanism in highly dense WLANs with saturated traffic environment.1","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85977453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Tahir Abbas, T. Khan, Asif Mahmood, Javier Jose Diaz Rivera, Wang-Cheol Song
{"title":"Introducing network slice management inside M-CORD-based-5G framework","authors":"Muhammad Tahir Abbas, T. Khan, Asif Mahmood, Javier Jose Diaz Rivera, Wang-Cheol Song","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406113","url":null,"abstract":"Network slicing has been considered as one of the fundamental technologies in the fifth generation (5G) mobile networks. Slicing mechanism enables virtual networks while providing customized services on demand. There are several papers attempting to narrow down the architectural requirement for 5G networks. Many of them consider the aspect of slice creation as a central point, sometimes strengthening slices with slice isolation. The aim of this paper is to focus more on network slice management, slicing of transport network (TN) and challenges to elaborate technological options and enablers, irrespective of the slicing mechanism. Our proposed framework creates, manages and associates the slice to user equipment (UE) upon the request made by different applications. Proposed framework exploits the key features offered by CORD including OpenStack and ONOS as well as modules based on M-CORD such as vBBU, NSSF and vEPC for establishing a network slice scenario.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87967089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Harutyunyan, Supreeth Herle, Dimitri Maradin, George Agapiu, R. Riggio
{"title":"Traffic-aware user association in heterogeneous LTE/WiFi radio access networks","authors":"D. Harutyunyan, Supreeth Herle, Dimitri Maradin, George Agapiu, R. Riggio","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406258","url":null,"abstract":"WiFi networks are known to be a cost-efficient traffic offloading solution for mobile networks. The Multi Access Packet Data Network Connectivity is a feature introduced in LTE Release 10 in order to allow users to be simultaneously connected to multiple radio access networks (RAN). Although this feature brings many advantages, such as the possibility to implement QoS-based traffic steering, it poses also many challenges, one of which is distributing traffic among the two radio access technologies. In this paper, we propose a traffic- aware user association algorithm for heterogeneous LTE/WiFi RANs. The proposed algorithm is formulated as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problem jointly optimizing user association and resource allocation. A heuristic is also proposed in order to address the scalability issues of the ILP-based algorithm. Numerical simulations are used in order to compare the proposed approaches. Finally, we implemented and tested the heuristic in small-scale testbed using the 5G-EmPOWER platform.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88643594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stanislav Lange, Lorenz Reinhart, T. Zinner, D. Hock, N. Gray, P. Tran-Gia
{"title":"Integrating network management information into the SDN control plane","authors":"Stanislav Lange, Lorenz Reinhart, T. Zinner, D. Hock, N. Gray, P. Tran-Gia","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406228","url":null,"abstract":"With software defined networking (SDN), operators benefit from a higher flexibility, cost efficiency, as well as programmability of their networks. Since modern networks are comprised of a multitude of heterogeneous devices and also include non-SDN legacy devices, network management systems (NMSs) are often used in order to monitor and configure the network. Although both, the SDN controller and the NMS, have a centralized view of the network, they operate at different time scales and deal with information at different levels of granularity. In this work, we investigate the impact on the network performance when an NMS regularly provides information to an SDN controller. To this end, we design, implement, and compare three interaction mechanisms based on the ONOS controller. These represent different trade-offs regarding the complexity of the resulting system and its performance. In addition to the default ONOS controller, we develop two extended versions. One performs hash-based load balancing on equal cost paths while the other utilizes external NMS information via ONOS's intent and annotation framework to optimize control plane decisions. In addition to evaluations that show a significant performance improvement when using the optimized controllers, we present a parameter study that highlights the performance impact of network characteristics like the flow interarrival time, the flow duration, and the number of active flows.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"22 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91518707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JOX: An event-driven orchestrator for 5G network slicing","authors":"Kostas Katsalis, N. Nikaein, A. Huang","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406236","url":null,"abstract":"Network slicing is expected to be the main pillar around which virtualization technologies together with SDN control and NFV, will provide on-demand network and cloud infrastructures and facilitate rapid service deployment. In this paper we present JOX, an event-driven orchestrator for the virtu- alized network, operating on top of the Juju management system, that inherently supports network slicing. JOX is a python-based generic network slicing orchestrator, with a plugins architecture that is able to support different segments of a modern mobile edge network. We present a concrete prototype implementation of JOX for LTE, with experimental results considering footprint analysis, performance metrics, and implementation experience for slicing and orchestrating of an operational LTE network.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":" 26","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91415652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Santos, P. Leroux, T. Wauters, B. Volckaert, F. Turck
{"title":"Anomaly detection for Smart City applications over 5G low power wide area networks","authors":"José Santos, P. Leroux, T. Wauters, B. Volckaert, F. Turck","doi":"10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406257","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced a whole new set of challenges and opportunities in Telecommunications. Traffic over wireless networks has been increasing exponentially since many sensors and everyday devices are being connected. Current networks must therefore adapt to and cope with the specific requirements introduced by IoT. One fundamental need of the next generation networked systems is to monitor IoT applications, especially those dealing with personal health monitoring or emergency response services, which have stringent latency requirements when dealing with malfunctions or unusual events. Traditional anomaly detection approaches are not suitable for delay-sensitive IoT applications since these approaches are significantly impacted by latency. With the advent of 5G networks and by exploiting the advantages of new paradigms, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and edge computing, scalable, low-latency anomaly detection becomes feasible. In this paper, an anomaly detection solution for Smart City applications is presented, focusing on low-power Fog Computing solutions and evaluated within the scope of Antwerp's City of Things testbed. Based on a collected large dataset, the most appropriate Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies for our Smart City use case are investigated.","PeriodicalId":19331,"journal":{"name":"NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium","volume":"17 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88859910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}