Overview of 9 Open-Source Resource Orchestrating ETSI MANO Compliant Implementations: A Brief Survey

Mamushiane, Lusani; Lysko, Albert A.; Mukute, Tariro; Mwangama, Joyce; Toit, Zaaid Du

doi:10.1109/africa.2019.8843421

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“…; 2) to address the labeling problem in the topology generator; 3) to add new use-cases, exploring other aspects such as large number of network slices and combination of network slicing and placement of vRAN network functions; 4) to improve the existing support for automating the service deployment and the system monitoring. Creating a fully service agnostic approach is challenging, but there is a lot of effort in literature and tools such as Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) and Open Source Mano (OSM) [40] are already following this direction. Among the improvements in system monitoring, there are the integration with analytics and interactive visualization tools such as Grafana.…”

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eXP-RAN—An Emulator for Gaining Experience With Radio Access Networks, Edge Computing, and Slicing

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Radio Access Networks (RAN), Edge Computing (EC), and Network Slicing are some of the critical components in 5G networks used to provide different transport services over the same infrastructure and to enable new features, e.g., low latency and context awareness. It is important to have tools for evaluating present and future applications over these components; however, there is a gap between theoretical work on resource allocation and its deployment in simulated, emulated, or real-world experiments. This paper addresses these issues through a new emulation software named eXP-RAN, which enables experimenting with network slicing in virtualized RAN nodes and EC scenarios. In this version, we have focused on the computing part of RANs. Experiments can be created manually or imported from an optimization model. We describe the software architecture and its advantages over traditional tools such as ns-3 and Mininet, as well as more recent tool targets to EC simulations such as EdgeCloudSim. We also illustrate how two use-cases, a virtual RAN (vRAN) / Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) orchestration and a network slicing for video service providers can be emulated and explored using eXP-RAN.

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eXP-RAN—An Emulator for Gaining Experience With Radio Access Networks, Edge Computing, and Slicing

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“…To fulfill the dynamic requirements of virtualized network services for 5G and beyond networks, NFV MANO systems have been widely explored by research community [81]. Several ETSI compliant MANO implementations have emerged [82]. Two of the well-known open-source MANO platforms are Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and Open Source MANO (ETSI OSM).…”

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An Overview of the Security Landscape of Virtual Mobile Networks

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5G enables the use of different types of services over the same physical infrastructure through the concepts and technologies of virtualization, softwarization, network slicing and cloud computing. Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), using these concepts, provide an opportunity to share the same physical infrastructure among multiple operators. Each MVNO can have own distinct operating and support systems. However, the technologies used to enable such an environment have their own explicit security challenges and solutions. The integrated environment built upon these novel concepts and technologies, thus, will have complex security implications and requirements to be satisfied. In this vain, this article provides an overview of the security challenges and potential solutions for MVNOs.

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“…NS, VNF, and their corresponded NFVI are connected and steered by a management and orchestration system(MANO) [19]. The NFV-MANO [27] is the brain of the NFV entity and is driven by the metadata predefined in the characteristics of the NS and their inner VNFs. To well manage and orchestrate the NFV entity, the MANO panel has three core components corresponding to the NS, VNF, and NFVI.…”

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An Automated VNF Manager based on Parameterized Action MDP and Reinforcement Learning

Samaan

Karmouch

2021

ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications

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Managing and orchestrating the behaviour of virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) remains a major challenge due to their heterogeneity and the ever increasing resource demands of the served flows. In this thesis, we propose a novel VNF manager (VNFM) that employs a parameterized actions-based reinforcement learning mechanism to simultaneously decide on the optimal VNF management action (e.g., migration, scaling, termination or rebooting) and the action's corresponding configuration parameters (e.g., migration location or amount of resources needed for scaling ). More precisely, we first propose a novel parameterized-action Markov decision process (PAMDP) model to accurately describe each VNF, instances of its components and their communication as well as the set of permissible management actions by the VNFM and the rewards of realizing these actions. The use of parameterized actions allows us to rigorously represent the functionalities of the VNFM in order perform various Lifecycle management (LCM) operations on the VNFs. Next, we propose a two-stage reinforcement learning (RL) scheme that alternates between learning an action-value function for the discrete LCM actions and updating the actions parameters selection policy. In contrast to existing machine learning schemes, the proposed work uniquely provides a holistic management platform the unifies individual efforts targeting individual LCM functions such as VNF placement and scaling. Performance evaluation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed VNFM in maintaining the required performance level of the VNF while optimizing its resource configurations. xii VM Virtual Machine

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Overview of 9 Open-Source Resource Orchestrating ETSI MANO Compliant Implementations: A Brief Survey

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

eXP-RAN—An Emulator for Gaining Experience With Radio Access Networks, Edge Computing, and Slicing

eXP-RAN—An Emulator for Gaining Experience With Radio Access Networks, Edge Computing, and Slicing

An Overview of the Security Landscape of Virtual Mobile Networks

An Automated VNF Manager based on Parameterized Action MDP and Reinforcement Learning

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