Paper Info
Title
Understand Your Chains: Towards Performance Profile-Based Network Service Management
Abstract
Allocating resources to virtualized network functions and services to meet service level agreements is a challenging task for NFV management and orchestration systems. This becomes even more challenging when agile development methodologies, like DevOps, are applied. In such scenarios, management and orchestration systems are continuously facing new versions of functions and services which makes it hard to decide how much resources have to be allocated to them to provide the expected service performance. One solution for this problem is to support resource allocation decisions with performance behavior information obtained by profiling techniques applied to such network functions and services. In this position paper, we analyze and discuss the components needed to generate such performance behavior information within the NFV DevOps workflow. We also outline research questions that identify open issues and missing pieces for a fully integrated NFV profiling solution. Further, we introduce a novel profiling mechanism that is able to profile virtualized network functions and entire network service chains under different resource constraints before they are deployed on production infrastructure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/EWSDN.2016.9
2016 Fifth European Workshop on Software-Defined Networks (EWSDN)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
network function virtualization,sdn,profiling,benchmarking,resource management,5g,devops,emulation,network management
Conference
abs/1703.08206
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-6147-1
8
0.69
References 
Authors
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuel Peuster16211.02
H. Karl21817180.47