A network flow is required to be processed by multiple networkfunctions such as PGW and SGW in mobile networks as a service function chain (SFC). Compared to hardware-based networkfunctions, virtualized network func...
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A network flow is required to be processed by multiple networkfunctions such as PGW and SGW in mobile networks as a service function chain (SFC). Compared to hardware-based networkfunctions, virtualized networkfunctions are more flexible for deployment. Software defined network (SDN) provides a centralized network architecture to manage network resources and route the network flow among networkfunctions in sequence and virtual machines are leveraged to deploy the networkfunctions as network function virtualization (NFV). However, currently the performance of NFV suffers from I/O latency because packet processing causes lots of interrupts that decreases CPU utilization. To address the I/O latency issue, SR-I/OV network card is designed to replace OpenvSwitch in host machines to reduce the system interrupts. However, SR-I/OV is not compatible with existing SDN system, which is an important component in future 5G networks. Therefore, we propose an integrated architecture called the low latency service function chain from a wider perspective in system design to overcome main defects described above. We modify appropriate components in SR-I/OV driver and OpenvSwitch to dramatically reduce packet processing latency in SFC composed by several VNFs. Moreover, our design is compatible with SDN environment and benefited by central control.
With the advent of 5G technologies, vertical markets have been placed at the forefront, as fundamental drivers and adopters of technical developments and new business models. Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SUAVs) are...
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With the advent of 5G technologies, vertical markets have been placed at the forefront, as fundamental drivers and adopters of technical developments and new business models. Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SUAVs) are gaining traction in multiple vertical sectors, as key assets to generate, process, and distribute relevant information for the provision of value-added services. However, the enormous potential of SUAVs to support a flexible, rapid, and cost-effective deployment of vertical applications is still to be exploited. In this paper, we leverage our prior work on networkfunctions virtualization (NFV) and SUAVs to design and build a multi-site experimentation testbed based on open-source technologies. The goal of this testbed is to explore synergies among NFV, SUAVs, and vertical services, following a practical approach primarily governed by experimentation. To verify our testbed design, we realized a reference use case where a number of SUAVs, cloud infrastructures, and communication protocols are used to provide a multi-site vertical service. Our experimentation results suggest the potential of NFV and SUAVs to flexibly support vertical services. The lessons learned have served to identify missing elements in our NFV platform, as well as challenging aspects for potential improvement. These include the development of specific mechanisms to limit processing load and delays of service deployment operations.
The article discusses the existing routing methods, their advantages and disadvantages. It was discovered that to solve the routing methods disadvantages it is necessary to use the concept of networkfunctions Virtual...
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This article shows State of the Art of techno-economic modeling for access network technologies, presents the characteristics a universal techno-economic model should have, and shows a classification and analysis of t...
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network function virtualization (NFV) aims at satisfying various performance requirements of network services and increasing the performance/cost ratio mostly by decoupling software and hardware. However, network oper...
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Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) help reduce the operating expenditure (OPEX) and capital expenditure (CAPEX) as well as increase the network flexibility and agility. However...
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At the end of the battlefield, the efficient networking among combat resources to ensure the real-time and reliable transmission of information is one of the keys to forming information superiority. network resources ...
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With the rapid development of big data, cloud computing, mobile Internet and other new-generation information technologies, smart cities, carry more and more intelligent applications, and put forward higher requiremen...
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With the rapid development of big data, cloud computing, mobile Internet and other new-generation information technologies, smart cities, carry more and more intelligent applications, and put forward higher requirements for data processing capacity and network service quality. The integration system of Edge-to-Cloud collaboration provides a feasible method to effectively improve network performance to adapt to the changing needs of users. However, the existing network management mechanism is difficult to adapt to the actual demand changes due to the characteristics of the edge-cloud fusion system, such as device diversity, location complexity and resource dynamics. This article to the idea of sliding mode control function of networkvirtualization technology and network, the study method and collaborative optimization theory as the foundation, of the application of static and dynamic models of the intelligence cities, fault prediction and fault tolerant management mechanism, task scheduling and resource allocation adaptive collaborative optimization mechanism, to ensure that the cities network real-time, reliability, and security, At the same time, combined with the smart campus platform of our school, the real-time performance and effectiveness of the network are tested and evaluated, providing a case demonstration for the intelligent application of smart cities. This project will further enrich and improve the theoretical system of end-to-end cloud collaborative optimization and provide new means and methods for intelligent cities network QoS(Quality of Service) guarantee.
Nowadays, network function virtualization (NFV) is a growing and powerful technology in the research community and IT world. Traditional computer networks consist of hardware appliances such as firewalls and load bala...
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Nowadays, network function virtualization (NFV) is a growing and powerful technology in the research community and IT world. Traditional computer networks consist of hardware appliances such as firewalls and load balancers, called middleboxes. The implementation of these hardware devices is a difficult task due to their proprietary nature. NFV proposes an alternative way to design and deploy networkfunctions called Virtual networkfunctions (VNFs) on top of the commercial hardware by leveraging virtualization technology. NFV offers many advantages such as flexibility, agility, reduced capital and operational expenditure over the traditional network architecture. With the emergence of VNF, NFV needs to add new features regarding life-cycle management and end-to-end orchestration of VNFs. To fulfill this demand, NFV introduced the NFV-MANO framework for the management and orchestration of VNFs and provide network services to users. The NFV-MANO consists of NFV Orchestrator (NFVO), VNF Manager (VNFM), and Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM). This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Virtualized Infrastructure Managers with NFV orchestration and VNF Management for implementing Service function Chain (SFC) in NFV architecture. Further, this study critically analyzes relevant research articles and proposes a taxonomy to select an appropriate VIM based on Emulation, virtualization, Containerization, and Hybrid environment for reliable SFC provisioning. Finally, various use cases have been identified for selecting particular VIM according to the requirements of the application.
Modern network services make increasing use of virtualized compute and network resources. This is enabled by the growing availability of softwarized networkfunctions, which take on major roles in the total traffic fl...
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Modern network services make increasing use of virtualized compute and network resources. This is enabled by the growing availability of softwarized networkfunctions, which take on major roles in the total traffic flow (such as caching, routing or as firewall). To ensure reliable operation of its services, the service provider needs a good understanding of the performance of the deployed softwarized networkfunctions. Ideally, the service performance should be predictable, given a certain input workload and a set of allocated (virtualized) resources (such as vCPUs and bandwidth). This helps to estimate more accurately how much resources are needed to operate the service within its performance specifications. To predict its performance, the networkfunction should be profiled in the whole range of possible input workloads and resource configurations. However, this input can span a large space of multiple parameters and many combinations to test, resulting in an expensive and overextended measurement period. To mitigate this, we present a profiling framework and a sampling heuristic to help select both workload and resource configurations to test. Additionally, we compare several machine-learning based methods for the best prediction accuracy, in combination with the sampling heuristic. As a result, we obtain a reduced dataset which can still model the performance of the networkfunctions with adequate accuracy, while requiring less profiling time. Compared to uniform sampling, our tests show that the heuristic achieves the same modeling accuracy with up to five times less samples.
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