Title
Making the Data Plane Ready for NFV: An Effective Way of Handling Resources
Abstract
In order to enable carrier grade network services constructed from software-based network functions, we need a novel data plane supporting high performance packet processing, low latency and flexible, fine granular programmability and control. The network functions implemented as virtual machines or containers use the same hardware resources (cpu, memory) as the elements responsible for networking, therefore, a low-level resource orchestrator which is capable of jointly controlling these resources is an indispensable component. In this demonstration, we showcase our novel resource orchestrator (FERO) on top of a data plane making use of open-source components such as, Docker, DPDK and OVS. It is capable of i) generating an abstract model of the underlying hardware architecture during the bootstrap process, ii) mapping the incoming network service requests to available resources based on our recently proposed Service Graph embedding engine and the generated graph model. The impact of the orchestration decision is shown on-the-fly by real-time performance measurements on a graphical dashboard.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123878.3131999
SIGCOMM Posters and Demos
Field
DocType
ISBN
Network service,Forwarding plane,Virtual machine,Computer science,Computer network,Carrier grade,Packet processing,Latency (engineering),Orchestration (computing),Hardware architecture,Distributed computing
Conference
978-1-4503-5057-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marton Szabo101.01
András Majdán2311.86
Gergely Pongrácz36816.25
László Toka4607.58
Balázs Sonkoly513722.70