T-NOVA: An Open-Source MANO Stack for NFV Infrastructures

Kourtis, Michail-Alexandros; McGrath, Michael J.; Gardikis, Georgios; Xilouris, George; Riccobene, Vincenzo; Papadimitriou, Panagiotis; Trouva, Eleni; Liberati, Francesco; Trubian, Marco; Batalle, Josep; Koumaras, Harilaos; Dietrich, David; Ramos, Aurora; Riera, Jordi Ferrer; Bonnet, José; Pietrabissa, Antonio; Ceselli, Alberto; Petrini, Alessandro

doi:10.1109/tnsm.2017.2733620

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“…management between POPs, and data center cloud assets. The TeNOR Orchestrator is split into two elements: (i) Network Service Orchestrator that manages the Network Service lifecycle, and (ii) Virtualized Resource Orchestrator that orchestrates the underlying computing and network resources [87].…”

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Network Service Orchestration: A survey

Sousa

Perez

Rosa

et al. 2019

Computer Communications

103

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Business models of network service providers are undergoing an evolving transformation fueled by vertical customer demands and technological advances such as 5G, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Emerging scenarios call for agile network services consuming network, storage, and compute resources across heterogeneous infrastructures and administrative domains. Coordinating resource control and service creation across interconnected domains and diverse technologies becomes a grand challenge. Research and development efforts are being devoted to enabling orchestration processes to automate, coordinate, and manage the deployment and operation of network services. In this survey, we delve into the topic of Network Service Orchestration (NSO) by reviewing the historical background, relevant research projects, enabling technologies, and standardization activities. We define key concepts and propose a taxonomy of NSO approaches and solutions to pave the way to a common understanding of the various ongoing efforts towards the realization of diverse NSO application scenarios. Based on the analysis of the state of affairs, we present a series of open challenges and research opportunities, altogether contributing to a timely and comprehensive survey on the vibrant and strategic topic of network service orchestration.

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Network Service Orchestration: A survey

Sousa

Perez

Rosa

et al. 2019

Computer Communications

103

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“…Although these orchestrators are produced by different organizations, they are all open source. In particular, the Open Source Management and Orchestration (MANO) is an implementation of European Telecommunications Standards Institute standard NFV MANO, which is separated into service orchestrator and resource orchestrator for achieving fine‐grained control on developing open source NFV management and orchestration software stacks . Another implementation of NFV orchestrator is Tacker, which offers solution for both VNF management and NFV orchestration .…”

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“…On the basis of various proposed VNF placement and chaining algorithms, SFC orchestrators explore almost every aspect of the SFC deployment such as flexibility, scalability, automation, etc. Despite this, we should be aware that these orchestrators do not provide any “after‐sales service” for deployed SFCs, that is, the performance of any deployed SFCs cannot be guaranteed during its life cycle .…”

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SDN/NFV‐enabled performance estimation framework for SFC optimization

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Huang

2018

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Many network function virtualization management and orchestration frameworks have been proposed to offer an agile and automated service deployment with a set of virtual network function (VNF) placement and chaining algorithms. However, once the services are deployed, less attention is paid to the subsequent supervision on their performance which may be affected by the dynamic changing network conditions. In order to guarantee the performance of services, this article designs and presents a service function chain performance estimation framework, which can be used to complement the network function virtualization orchestrators by providing performance estimation and optimization for the already deployed services. In particular, the performance estimation is implemented based on the min‐plus algebra theory, and the optimization is fulfilled by using two VNF migration approaches on the basis of greedy and load balance, respectively. The proposed framework can (1) evaluate and compare existing VNF placement algorithms by statistics on service performance estimation, (2) estimate and optimize the performance of services by using VNF migration approaches, (3) integrate the VNF placement algorithms and VNF migration approaches, thus producing more efficient future solutions. Finally, this article presents an implementation of the proposed framework and evaluates its effectiveness in an experimental environment.

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“…This essentially fosters the integration of existing and novel network services into the infrastructure, as well as the co-existence of multiple services with significantly different requirements in terms of bandwidth, delay, resilience and/or security. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) [3], [4] and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) [5], [6] comprise some of the main enablers for network slicing.…”

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Multi-PoP Network Slice Deployment: A Feasibility Study

Valsamas

Papadimitriou

Sakellariou

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE 8th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet)

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Network slicing is seen as a key enabler for meeting the diverse network service requirements, which stem from the transition to 5G. Furthermore, network slicing provides inherent support for multi-tenancy, enabling network providers to slice their infrastructure and resell it to a large number of tenants. Most existing work on slicing has been focused on certain mechanisms (e.g., slice embedding) and architecture specifications. As such, the performance and scalability with network slice instantiation has not been studied in depth. These aspects are even more critical in the case of slice deployments across multiple Points-of-Presence (PoP), since the various slice components should be stitched together for the end-to-end slice instantiation. In this paper, we present the design and prototype implementation of a network slicing architecture, based on which we perform a feasibility study of network slicing using multiple experimental infrastructures. Our prototype implementation supports all the required functionality for slice instantiation, such as resource discovery, slice embedding, resource provisioning, link setup, and inter-PoP slice segment stitching. Our experimental results corroborate the feasibility of multi-PoP network slicing. We further gain useful insights on slice instantiation performance and scalability.

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T-NOVA: An Open-Source MANO Stack for NFV Infrastructures

Abstract: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Created by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the benefit of humanity.

Cited by 56 publications

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Network Service Orchestration: A survey

Network Service Orchestration: A survey

SDN/NFV‐enabled performance estimation framework for SFC optimization

Multi-PoP Network Slice Deployment: A Feasibility Study

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