Title
A Layer 2 Traffic Steering Mechanism for Network Slicing scenarios
Abstract
The need to support a wide variety of requirements, from the different verticals envisioned, make slicing a core component of the 5G scenario. One of the foundations of slicing is the capability of isolating the different services provided, to guarantee the required performance for each of them. The performance impact of the isolation mechanisms themselves becomes a key aspect that must be carefully balanced and evaluated in all the components of the infrastructure. In this paper, we introduce L2TSM, a Layer 2 Traffic Steering Mechanism for Network Slicing scenarios, including Service Function Chaining and Network Function Virtualization deployments. L2TSM minimizes the overhead, simplifies exposing the programmability of the network devices to be exploited by the service functions and maintains the isolation between the service chains, through a software-defined and standard compliant addressing scheme. With a case study in our L2TSM prototype, we show how different types of traffic composing a service chain are supported and gather some insights on the performance of the solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/NETSOFT.2018.8460100
2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft)
Keywords
Field
DocType
L2TSM,software-defined scheme,standard compliant addressing scheme,5G scenario,isolation mechanisms,Network Slicing scenarios,Layer 2 Traffic Steering Mechanism,network devices,Network Function Virtualization deployments,Service Function Chaining
Chaining,Network Functions Virtualization,Computer science,Slicing,Networking hardware,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-4634-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jokin Garay1805.92
Juanjo Unzilla2566.10
Eduardo Jacob329331.95
Jon Matias414913.53