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With Network Function Virtualization (NFV) generating significant interest in the network operator community, many network functions, including the LTE EPC, are being built as virtualized software appliances running on commodity hardware, as opposed to custom hardware. To provide fault tolerance and scalable performance, the virtualized network functions are typically built in a clustered architecture,...
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising solution for telecom operators and service providers to improve business agility, by enabling a fast deployment of new services, and by making it possible for them to cope with the increasing traffic volume and service demand. NFV enables virtualization of network functions that can be deployed as virtual machines on general purpose server hardware...
Next step of mobile is coming with 5G architecture where Software Defined Networking (SDN) will play a key role. Beyond the centralization of the control that alleviates the data forwarding task, because routing tables can be simply changed to reflect the mobile localization, we propose a new paradigm based on caching function to improve the quality of transfer during handover. Caching policy cooperates...
SDN aims to facilitate the management of increasingly complex, dynamic network environments and optimize the use of the resources available therein with minimal operator intervention. To this end, SDN controllers maintain a global view of the network topology and its state. However, the extraction of information about network flows and other network metrics remains a non-trivial challenge. Network...
Cheetah flows, which are high-rate flows, can cause increased packet delays and losses in other flows. Leveraging the flexibility offered by the NFV paradigm, our proposed Cheetah Flow Identification Network Function (CFINF) uses a novel method in which a new measure, short-duration flight rate, which is the rate of a flight of packets received over a fixed (short) time interval, is computed and compared...
Egress selection in an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the process of selecting an egress router to route interdomain traffic across the ISP such that a traffic engineering objective is achieved. In traditional ISP networks, traffic through the ISP is carried through the network and exits via an egress that is closest to the source in an attempt to minimize network resources for transit traffic...
Virtualized network function (VNF) service chaining in optical datacenter networks (DCN) is a more complex problem than that in packet-switched networks, as it introduces additional constraints related to the optical network. For example, in an optical DCN one needs to make sure that optical network resources are efficiently utilized, which requires multiplexing of several VNF chains to fill the optical...
Cloud Data Center (DC) service orchestration and resource management are important applications of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. In this paper, we introduce a novel dynamic allocation strategy for Virtual Machine (VM) allocation called Enhanced multi-objective Worst Fit (E-WF). E-WF combines the multi-objective Best Fit and Worst Fit allocation strategies, and it exploits the history...
In the context of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), we develop in this paper a resource allocation strategy for deploying Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) on distributed data centers. For this purpose, we rely on a three-level data center hierarchy exploiting co-location facilities available within Main and Core Central Offices. We precisely propose an active VNFs' placement strategy,...
We present RDCL 3D, a “model agnostic” web framework for the design and composition of NFV services and components. The framework allows editing and validating the descriptors of services and components both textually and graphically and supports the interaction with external orchestrators or with deployment and execution environments. RDCL 3D is open source and designed with a modular approach, allowing...
The deployment of modular virtual network functions (VNFs) in software defined infrastructures (SDI) enables cloud and network providers to deploy integrated network services across different resource domains. It leads to a large interleaving between network configuration through software defined network controllers and VNF deployment within this network. Most of the configuration management tools...
Service Assurance (SA) is a significant part of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to enable automated and efficient service delivery from end to end (E2E). In NFV, SA should be integrated into the design and development loop from the beginning. However, it sees slower pace than other NFV management and orchestration (MANO) components. Most of present NFV-SA solutions are partial and do not provide...
Topology control is a crucial process for an efficient operation of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The usage of WSNs in the Internet of Things (IoT) emerges new research challenges and novel applications. Recent WSNs proposals enhanced with Software Defined Networking (SDN) practices introduce new innovative network control strategies and protocols based on central control logic. This paper introduces...
Software defined networking (SDN) setups in general assume a perfect control channel between network devices and the centralized controller. Whilst this may be the case in certain controlled contexts such as data centers, when moving to wide area networks, this assumption does not necessarily hold true anymore. Therefore, there is the need to evaluate the impact of unreliable control plane behavior...
Recent standardization efforts in IEEE 802.15.4-2015 Time Scheduled Channel Hopping (TSCH) and the IETF 6TiSCH Working Group (WG), aim to provide deterministic communications and efficient allocation of resources across constrained Internet of Things (IoT) networks, particularly in Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios. Within 6TiSCH, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been identified as means of providing...
Network Functions Virtualization allows Communication Service Providers to extend their traditional service portfolio to new models of service offerings, such as Virtualized Network Functions as a Service (VNFaaS), in which network functions can be traded following the “on-demand” Cloud paradigm. Incremental deployment and interoperability with legacy infrastructure, in particular Wide Area Network...
The emergence of ubiquitous computing paradigms, and smart Ambient Intelligence environments, will play a crucial role, towards creating better living environments for activity-challenged individuals, such as disabled, or elderly people that require constant care. In addition, cloud computing has been an empowering force for that endeavour. In this paper, we propose a virtualized Cloud-based Ambient...
The 5G ESSENCE project context is based on the concept of Edge cloud computing and Small Cell-as-a-Service (SCaaS) and further “promotes” their role and/or influences within the related 5G vertical markets. 5G ESSENCE's core innovation is focused upon the development/provision of a highly flexible and scalable platform, offering benefits to the involved market actors. The present work identifies a...
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