The Box of Virtual Middleboxes Design and Implementation in Software Defined Networking

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a box of packages containing application models of virtual middleboxes based hypervisor technology and to propose a standard container (box) program with a virtual appliance. The net element of physical hardware is the virtual middleboxes applying virtual appliance of open virtualization format (OVF) package for business application service. It is software-defined networking (SDN) based on network management theory, NFV implementation, and cloud computing service concept. It addresses flexible, elastic, and on-demand self-service of the out-of-the-box service platform. Applications packaged with operating system in the virtual appliance are pre-configured software stack. They can be loaded into virtual middleboxes anywhere, enabling flexible rapid distribution and deployment to meet customized user needs. In this study, the virtual appliance container is x86-based server hardware with installed hypervisor virtualization platform.