A Comprehensive Study on Load Balancers for VNF chains Horizontal Scaling

Autor:	Ma, Jiefei, Rankothge, Windhya, Makaya, Christian, Morales, Mariceli, Le, Frank, Lobo, Jorge
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We present an architectural design and a reference implementation for horizontal scaling of virtual network function chains. Our solution does not require any changes to network functions and is able to handle stateful network functions for which states may depend on both directions of the traffic. We use connection-aware traffic load balancers based on hashing function to maintain mappings between connections and the dynamically changing network function chains. Our references implementation uses OpenFlow switches to route traffic to the assigned network function instances according to the load balancer decisions. We conducted extensive simulations to test the feasibility of the architecture and evaluate the performance of our implementation. Comment: Short version of the paper has been accepted for CNSM 2018
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03238 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv