Design and Deployment of an Open Management and Orchestration Platform for Multi-Site NFV Experimentation

Nogales, Borja; Vidal, Iván; López, Diego; Rodríguez, Juan; García-Reinoso, Jaime; Azcorra, Arturo

doi:10.1109/mcom.2018.1800084

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“…Different flavours of MANO platforms are available (e.g., OSM [8] or 5GTANGO [9]), and each one may have proprietary interfaces and service descriptor formats, which can act as a barrier to the integration of other PaaS solutions. The authors in reference [10] and reference [11] show that the characteristics might differ significantly when comparing existing MANO solutions. It may be necessary, depending on the targeted use-case, to augment an existing MANO platform and integrate new functionalities ( [10,12]).…”

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The Next Generation Platform as A Service: Composition and Deployment of Platforms and Services

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The emergence of widespread cloudification and virtualisation promises increased flexibility, scalability, and programmability for the deployment of services by Vertical Service Providers (VSPs). This cloudification also improves service and network management, reducing the Capital and Operational Expenses (CAPEX, OPEX). A truly cloud-native approach is essential, since 5G will provide a diverse range of services - many requiring stringent performance guarantees while maximising flexibility and agility despite the technological diversity. This paper proposes a workflow based on the principles of build-to-order, Build-Ship-Run, and automation; following the Next Generation Platform as a Service (NGPaaS) vision. Through the concept of Reusable Functional Blocks (RFBs), an enhancement to Virtual Network Functions, this methodology allows a VSP to deploy and manage platforms and services, agnostic to the underlying technologies, protocols, and APIs. To validate the proposed workflow, a use case is also presented herein, which illustrates both the deployment of the underlying platform by the Telco operator and of the services that run on top of it. In this use case, the NGPaaS operator facilitates a VSP to provide Virtual Network Function as a Service (VNFaaS) capabilities for its end customers.

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“…The authors in reference [10] and reference [11] show that the characteristics might differ significantly when comparing existing MANO solutions. It may be necessary, depending on the targeted use-case, to augment an existing MANO platform and integrate new functionalities ( [10,12]).…”

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“…On the other hand, network function virtualization (NFV) technology decouples network functions from hardware and implements them in software . Moreover, a network service can be represented as a set of virtual network functions in a specific order, called service function chain (SFC) . When a new data flow arrives, it is required to bypass all the virtual network functions in the SFC in a given sequence.…”

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“…3 Moreover, a network service can be represented as a set of virtual network functions in a specific order, called service function chain (SFC). 4 When a new data flow arrives, it is required to bypass all the virtual network functions in the SFC in a given sequence. The integration of SDN and NFV brings a new opportunity to achieve flexible service function deployment and reduce service deployment cost.…”

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Dynamic network service deployment across multiple SDN domains

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The integration of software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising approach to support flexible service deployment and provisioning. In particular, NFV enables a network service to be represented as one network service function chain, which is composed of several virtual network functions in a specific order. However, with regard to service provisioning in multidomain SDN networks, virtual network functions are deployed in several different SDN domains due to limited resource capacity of each SDN domain. It results in the network service deployment complexity increase and causes additional operating cost. On the other hand, most current network service deployment proposals are limited to static user request scenarios. How to effectively deploy network service across multiple SDN domains to satisfy dynamic service demands of end users is a challenging problem. To address the aforementioned challenge, in this paper, we study the problem of dynamic network service deployment across multiple SDN domains. Specifically, we first design a novel service deployment framework to support dynamic deployment and optimization of virtual network function in multidomain SDN networks. Then, we formulate the problem as a multiobjective optimization problem with the target of jointly minimizing resource consumption cost and operating cost. Furthermore, we transform the multiobjective optimization problem into a single objective optimization model and present an efficient heuristic service deployment approach to solve it by leveraging Dijkstra algorithm. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed service deployment method is efficient and outperforms comparison methods in terms of service rejection ratio, resource cost, and operating cost.

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“…Furthermore, technical requirements from manufacturing for 5G were addressed; e.g., timing requirements, heterogeneity requirements, security and safety requirements, network infrastructure requirements and service management requirements. In order to achieve these, changes to existing technologies are necessary which leads to the development of next generation radio technologies, such as Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) schemes [4] to service-level technologies, such as hybrid clouds [5], as well as backhaul and core network technologies, such as software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV).…”

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Putting NFV into Reality: Physical Smart Manufacturing Testbed

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Behnke

Bök

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2019 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)

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5G and network function virtualization (NFV) have the potential to make factory networks more flexible and scalable. For this purpose, we defined use cases in previous work and demonstrated them using emulation-based prototype deployments. In this paper, we extend our previous work and deploy our developed vertical-specific network services and cloud-native virtualized network functions (VNFs) in a physical NFV testbed that is located on the shop floor to analyze the potential of NFV in real-life environments. We use the 5GTANGO service platform to deploy them on Kubernetes. Both are running on top of OpenStack.

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Design and Deployment of an Open Management and Orchestration Platform for Multi-Site NFV Experimentation

Cited by 38 publications

References 6 publications

The Next Generation Platform as A Service: Composition and Deployment of Platforms and Services

The Next Generation Platform as A Service: Composition and Deployment of Platforms and Services

Dynamic network service deployment across multiple SDN domains

Putting NFV into Reality: Physical Smart Manufacturing Testbed

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