To distribute or not to distribute? Impact of latency on Virtual Network Function distribution at the edge of FMC networks
| Autor: | Marco Savi, Stefan Höst, Giacomo Verticale, Massimo Tornatore, Ali Hmaity |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Savi, M, Hmaity, A, Verticale, G, Höst, S, Tornatore, M |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Computer science ING-INF/03 - TELECOMUNICAZIONI Mobile computing Core network 02 engineering and technology 5G mobile communication Hardware Web and internet services fixed and mobile convergence metro network network function virtualization service chaining Public land mobile network NFV 020210 optoelectronics & photonics 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Virtual network Network architecture Access network business.industry 020206 networking & telecommunications Intelligent computer network Service Function Chaining The Internet business Computer network |
| Popis: | The Network Function Virtualization paradigm enables the possibility to dynamically instantiate Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware. Such VNFs are then concatenated together in Service Chains (SCs) to provide specific Internet services to the users. Depending on latency requirements for such services and considering the aim of maximally consolidating the VNFs (i.e., of minimizing the COTS hardware), the VNFs can be centralized in few datacenters in the core network or they can be distributed closer to the edge of the network. In this paper we evaluate the impact of latency requirements of SCs on VNF distribution towards the edge of the network, by also showing the benefits of a Fixed and Mobile Convergent (FMC) metro/access network, with respect to a non-convergent network, in terms of consolidation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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