Paper Info
Title
Toy Block Networking: Easily Deploying Diverse Network Functions in Programmable Networks
Abstract
Recent progress on virtualization and deeply programmable network technologies brings opportunities for network operators to flexibly deploy a diverse set of network functions as software-based middle boxes. We present a new deployment and configuration management framework for network functions, called toy block networking. In our framework, an operator can describe its network-wide deployment plan of various network functions by using a unified abstraction representing essential features of composition of network functions, without including the detail of the functions and specific configuration interfaces. This abstraction is based on a network-wide configuration graph that captures the relationships between various network functions, and thus network-wide consistency of their configurations is systematically validated by the framework. Our framework enables the network operator, like building toy blocks into a structure, to compose various network functions from different vendors into a unified network service plan, and deploy them in an operational network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/COMPSACW.2014.14
COMPSAC Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtualization, programmability, deployment,virtualization,configuration management,deployment,graph theory,switches,virtualisation,security
Network service,Core network,Computer science,Computer network,Network architecture,Network simulation,Open network architecture,Real-time computing,Network management application,Distributed computing,Network management station,Intelligent computer network
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
1.10
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Masaki Fukushima1276.13
Yoshiaki Yoshida251.10
Atsushi Tagami36925.29
Shu Yamamoto483.58
Akihiro Nakao581498.64