Balázs Németh, János Czentye, Gabor Vaszkun, Levente Csikor, Balázs Sonkoly
{"title":"Customizable real-time service graph mapping algorithm in carrier grade networks","authors":"Balázs Németh, János Czentye, Gabor Vaszkun, Levente Csikor, Balázs Sonkoly","doi":"10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387400","url":null,"abstract":"Today the notion of Service Function Chaining (SFC) returns to the focus of technological development in the area of network management and design. Researchers focus on exploiting the advantages of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) to bring SFC to a brand new level of fast and flexible, modern end-to-end service orchestration. The core of SFC architecture is the orchestration algorithm, which has ultimate decision making responsibility over compute and networking resource reservation. There are many sophisticated solutions for this task with long running times, so those cannot be executed real-time for every new request arriving within a few seconds. There is a lack of very fast (meta)heuristic orchestration algorithms to deal with enormous amount of service request. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate novel approaches to designing, evaluating and fine-tuning of real-time parameterizable orchestration algorithms for carrier grade networks.","PeriodicalId":315251,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130789043","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":"Flowsim: Interactive SDN switch visualization","authors":"C. Casey, M. Yan, Colton Chojnacki, A. Sprintson","doi":"10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387402","url":null,"abstract":"We present Flowsim, a new web-based OpenFlow data plane simulator. Flowsim enables users to configure their own OpenFlow switches, issue OpenFlow messages, inject custom packet sequences into the data plane, and observe the resulting behavior. During a simulation, the life cycle of an injected packet is analyzed as it traverses the OpenFlow data plane. The user is presented with visualizations that include packet arrival, key extraction, table selection, flow selection, and action application. Flowsim allows new users to quickly grasp the key SDN concepts in a controlled environment, without the need to install or configure complicated software tools. We expect Flowsim to contribute to the adoption of the SDN technologies by a wider community of network practitioners.","PeriodicalId":315251,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128238153","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}
S. V. Rossem, W. Tavernier, Balázs Sonkoly, D. Colle, János Czentye, M. Pickavet, P. Demeester
{"title":"Deploying elastic routing capability in an SDN/NFV-enabled environment","authors":"S. V. Rossem, W. Tavernier, Balázs Sonkoly, D. Colle, János Czentye, M. Pickavet, P. Demeester","doi":"10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387398","url":null,"abstract":"SDN and NFV are two paradigms that introduce unseen flexibility in telecom networks. Where previously telecom services were provided by dedicated hardware and associated (vendor-specific) protocols, SDN enables to control telecom networks through specialized software running on controllers. NFV enables highly optimized packet-processing network functions to run on generic/multi-purpose hardware such as x86 servers. Although the possibilities of SDN and NFV are well-known, concrete control and orchestration architectures are still under design and few prototype validations are available. In this demo we demonstrate the dynamic up- and downscaling of an elastic router supporting NFV-based network management, for example needed in a VPN service. The framework which enables this elasticity is the UNIFY ESCAPE environment, which is a PoC following an ETSI NFV MANO-conform architecture. This demo is one of the first to demonstrate a fully closed control loop for scaling NFs in an SDN/NFV control and orchestration architecture.","PeriodicalId":315251,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126575405","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":"Impact of processing costs on service chain placement in network functions virtualization","authors":"Marco Savi, M. Tornatore, G. Verticale","doi":"10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387426","url":null,"abstract":"The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is the most promising technique to help network providers in the reduction of capital and energy costs. The deployment of virtual network functions (VNFs) running on generic x86 hardware allows higher flexibility than the classical middleboxes approach. NFV also reduces the complexity in the deployment of network services through the concept of service chaining, which defines how multiple VNFs can be chained together to provide a specific service. As a drawback, hosting multiple VNFs in the same hardware can lead to scalability issues, especially in the processing-resource sharing. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of two different types of costs that must be taken into account when multiple chained VNFs share the same processing resources: the upscaling costs and the context switching costs. Upscaling costs are incurred by VNFs multi-core implementations, since they suffer a penalty due to the needs of load balancing among cores. Context switching costs arise when multiple VNFs share the same CPU and thus require the loading/saving of their context. We model through an ILP problem the evaluation of such costs and we show their impact in a VNFs consolidation scenario, when the x86 hardware deployed in the network is minimized.","PeriodicalId":315251,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133680588","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":"DiG: Data-centers in the Grid","authors":"Hardik Soni, D. Saucez, T. Turletti","doi":"10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387391","url":null,"abstract":"We are witnessing a considerable amount of research work related to data center and cloud infrastructures but evaluations are often limited to small-scale scenarios as very few researchers have access to a real infrastructure to confront their ideas to reality. In this demo we will reveal our experiment automation tool, DiG (Data centers in the Grid), which explicitly allocates physical resources in grids to emulate data center and cloud networks. DiG allows one to utilize grid infrastructures to evaluate research ideas pertaining to data centers and cloud environments at massive scale and with real traffic workload. We have automated the procedure of building target network topologies while respecting available physical resources in the grid against the demand of links and hosts in the experiment. We will present a showcase where DiG automatically builds a large data center topology composed of hundreds of servers executing various Hadoop intensive workloads.","PeriodicalId":315251,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131132496","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}
G. Xilouris, M. Kourtis, M. Mcgrath, Vincenzo Riccobene, G. Petralia, E. Markakis, E. Pallis, Alexiou Georgios, G. Gardikis, J. Riera, Aurora Ramos, José Bonnet
{"title":"T-NOVA: Network functions as-a-service over virtualised infrastructures","authors":"G. Xilouris, M. Kourtis, M. Mcgrath, Vincenzo Riccobene, G. Petralia, E. Markakis, E. Pallis, Alexiou Georgios, G. Gardikis, J. Riera, Aurora Ramos, José Bonnet","doi":"10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387394","url":null,"abstract":"The EU funded FP7 project T-NOVA, with the specific goal of accelerating the evolution of NFV, proposes an open architecture to provide Virtual Network Functions as a Service (VNFaaS), together with a dynamic, and flexible platform for the management of Network Services (NSs) composed by those Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). The proposed architecture allows operators to deploy distinct virtualized network functions, not only for their internal operational needs, but also to offer them to their customers, as value-added services. Virtual network appliances (e.g. gateways, proxies or even traffic analyzers) can be provided on-demand, eliminating the need to acquire, install, and maintain specialized hardware at customer premises. This demo illustrates work carried out on the deployment of a VNF on a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) using resource aware scheduling methods to ensure optimal use of resources and performance while we focus also on business-related and customer front-end aspects, i.e. how the stakeholders interact with the services, which T-NOVA identifies as the marketplace layer.","PeriodicalId":315251,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127653144","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":"NFV use case — Delivering virtual CPE with multi-vendor VNF orchestration","authors":"Srini Beereddy, Kiran Sirupa","doi":"10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2015.7387399","url":null,"abstract":"Service Providers are relying on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), an ETS/ industry specification, to achieve on-demand delivery of network services by avoiding long hardware deployment cycles. ETS/ NFV supports dynamic workloads by scaling out virtual network functions (VNF) using industry standard high volume servers, switches and storage infrastructure. Further, NFV enables the /T administrator to quickly identify capacity bottlenecks and migrate tenant services for effective resource utilization.","PeriodicalId":315251,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133027022","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}
Md. Faizul Bari, Samir Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed, R. Boutaba
{"title":"nf.io: A file system abstraction for NFV orchestration","authors":"Md. Faizul Bari, Samir Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed, R. Boutaba","doi":"10.1145/2785956.2790028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785956.2790028","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has gained a lot of traction from both industry and academia. NFV promotes vendor-independence and rapid evolution through open source software, open standards, and open APIs. However, adopting these principles for virtual middleboxes or Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) is not enough. The VNF orchestration systems also need to adopt the same principles, otherwise a network operator may still face vendor lock-in. Moreover, standardization efforts take a long time to converge and are often futile. For this reason, we introduce nf.io that uses the existing well-known Linux file system interface for VNF orchestration. Different members of a DevOps team can readily utilize this tool without a cumbersome learning process. We have developed a prototype, and provided a set of example use-cases to demonstrate its effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":315251,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133724043","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}