Paper Info
Title
Enabling network function virtualization over heterogeneous resources.
Abstract
The economies of scale afforded by cloud computing has been a driving force behind the rapid development and deployment of new cloud-based network applications and services. With the massive growth of IoT devices, we expect a sharp rise in the volume of traffic seen going to and coming from cloud datacenters, which will continue to grow over the next several years. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a recent concept which promises to grant network operators the required flexibility to quickly develop and provision new network functions and services in the cloud. As NFV is agnostic to the computing resource, we foresee scenarios where unconventional resources such as FPGAs and GPUs will be of benefit. To this end, we present an architecture based on Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) which offers an abstracted control and management interface over virtualized heterogeneous resources in the cloud. Through a unified set of APIs, this architecture enables both application developers and network operators to dynamically deploy and manage new services in the cloud alongside the underlying network that interconnects them, all in a fully software-defined manner. We demonstrate and evaluate an implementation of our NFV-enablement architecture using the SAVI testbed, a multi-tier and SDN-enabled cloud containing virtualized heterogeneous compute resources.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium-APNOMS
Architecture,Software deployment,Computer science,Computer network,Field-programmable gate array,Testbed,Desktop Management Interface,Operator (computer programming),Economies of scale,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2576-8565
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Lin1658.21
Naif Tarafdar2445.14
Byungchul Park3234.58
Paul Chow4868119.97
Alberto Leon-Garcia51718264.79