Abstract | ||
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One of the biggest emerging challenges for telco operators is to dynamically create new services while maintaining the network at its optimal performance/revenue break point. To this end, operators are moving to a much leaner cloud-based Software Defined Network (SDN) infrastructure to achieve a truly programmable network fabric. While cloud services can be provisioned in seconds and tested in-production, service provisioning in SDNs still lasts many weeks and requires substantial manual effort. A large part of this service creation time can be attributed to testing and tuning the control plane. In this paper we present SCP-CLUB (SDN Control Plane CLoUd-based Benchmarking), a platform for in-production performance testing of telco operator SDNs, offering a level of automation as available in deploying cloud services. Telco cloud SDN performance testing with SCP-CLUB focuses on the analysis of how design choices in the cloud and SDN control planes influence SLA metrics like throughput and latency. We describe the SCP-CLUB architecture and its performance testing support capabilities. Experiments are performed on an SDN telco cloud built to demonstrate SCP-CLUB under production load conditions. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1109/DSN.2018.00071 | 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
telecom operator,sdn,telco cloud,benchmarking,performance | Computer science,Provisioning,Automation,Network topology,Operator (computer programming),Throughput,Software-defined networking,Benchmarking,Distributed computing,Cloud computing | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
1530-0889 | 978-1-5386-5597-9 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 9 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Catello Di Martino | 1 | 219 | 14.78 |
Ugo Giordano | 2 | 3 | 0.73 |
Nishok Mohanasamy | 3 | 0 | 0.68 |
Stefano Russo | 4 | 728 | 78.07 |
Marina Thottan | 5 | 464 | 42.14 |