Title
Env2Vec: accelerating VNF testing with deep learning
Abstract
The adoption of fast-paced practices for developing virtual network functions (VNFs) allows for continuous software delivery and creates a market advantage for network operators. This adoption, however, is problematic for testing engineers that need to assure, in shorter development cycles, certain quality of highly-configurable product releases running on heterogeneous clouds. Machine learning (ML) can accelerate testing workflows by detecting performance issues in new software builds. However, the overhead of maintaining several models for all combinations of build types, network configurations, and other stack parameters, can quickly become prohibitive and make the application of ML infeasible. We propose Env2Vec, a deep learning architecture that combines contextual features with historical resource usage, and characterizes the various stack parameters that influence the test execution within an embedding space, which allows it to generalize model predictions to previously unseen environments. We integrate a single ML model in the testing workflow to automatically debug errors and pinpoint performance bottlenecks. Results obtained with real testing data show an accuracy between 86.2%-100%, while reducing the false alarm rate by 20.9%-38.1% when reporting performance issues compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3342195.3387525
EuroSys '20: Fifteenth EuroSys Conference 2020 Heraklion Greece April, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6882-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guangyuan Piao1163.63
Patrick K. Nicholson28814.10
Diego Lugones3359.77