Paper Info
Title
STEAN: A storage and transformation engine for advanced networking context
Abstract
Legacy Internet systems and protocols are mostly static and keep state information in silo-style storage, thus making state migration, transformation and re-use difficult. Software Defined Networking (SDN) approaches in unison with Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) allow for more flexibility, yet they are currently restricted to a limited set of state migration options. Impeding the sharing of networking and system state severely limits the ability to optimally manage resources and dynamically adapt to a desirable overall configuration. We propose a generalized way to collect, store, transform, and share context between NFs in both the legacy Internet and NFV/SDN-driven systems. To this end, we design and implement a Storage and Transformation Engine for Advanced Networking Context (STEAN), which constitutes a shared context storage, making network state information available to other systems and protocols. Its pivotal feature is the ability to allow for state transformation as well as for persisting state to enable future reuse. By means of experimentation, we show that STEAN covers a diverse set of challenging use cases in legacy systems as well as in NFV/SDN-enabled systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/IFIPNetworking.2016.7497203
2016 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
STEAN,storage and transformation engine for advanced networking context,legacy Internet systems,software defined networking,SDN,network function virtualization,NFV,state transformation
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marc Werner100.34
Johannes Schwandke200.68
Matthias Hollick375097.29
Oliver Hohlfeld426331.91
Torsten Zimmermann5579.39
Klaus Wehrle61062105.97