Paper Info
Title
MeDICINE: Rapid prototyping of production-ready network services in multi-PoP environments
Abstract
Virtualized network services consisting of multiple individual network functions are already today deployed across multiple sites, so called multi-PoP (points of presence) environments. This allows to improve service performance by optimizing its placement in the network. But prototyping and testing of these complex distributed software systems becomes extremely challenging. The reason is that not only the network service as such has to be tested but also its integration with management and orchestration systems. Existing solutions, like simulators, basic network emulators, or local cloud testbeds, do not support all aspects of these tasks. To this end, we introduce MeDICINE, a novel NFV prototyping platform that is able to execute production-ready network functions, provided as software containers, in an emulated multi-PoP environment. These network functions can be controlled by any third-party management and orchestration system that connects to our platform through standard interfaces. Based on this, a developer can use our platform to prototype and test complex network services in a realistic environment running on his laptop.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490
2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
MeDICINE,NFV prototyping platform,production-ready network service rapid prototyping,multi-PoP environments,multi-points of presence environment,complex distributed software system testing,complex distributed software system prototyping,third-party management,orchestration system,laptop,SDN controller
Conference
abs/1606.05995
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-0934-3
19
1.32
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuel Peuster16211.02
H. Karl21817180.47
Steven van Rossem3557.48