NFV orchestration framework addressing SFC challenges

Marouen Mechtri (1, 2, 3) , Chaima Ghribi (1, 2, 3) , Oussama Soualah (1, 2, 3) , Djamal Zeghlache (4, 1, 2, 3)

1 TSP - RS2M - Département Réseaux et Services Multimédia Mobiles
2 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4 R3S-SAMOVAR - Réseaux, Systèmes, Services, Sécurité

In the context of NFV and agile service production, virtualization of resources and SFC play a key role in automating network services deployment. Designing NFV management and orchestration to provide dynamic SFC as a service is addressed by the proposed NFV orchestration framework.1 The framework is designed to facilitate the development of NFV architecture components with a focus on SFC orchestration, placement algorithms, required monitoring, and network services stitching. The proposed framework can be used to compare placement algorithms as well as develop and evaluate other service function chaining solutions using a variety of SDN controllers to interact with heterogeneous underlying networking technologies. This article presents the SFC orchestration framework, an implementation, and a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of its components in an experimental environment

Mots clés: NFV orchestration framework; SDN controllers; Agile service production; Resource virtualization; SFC challenges; Network services deployment automation; NFV management; NFV architecture components; Placement algorithms; Network services stitching; Networking technologies

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Marouen Mechtri, Chaima Ghribi, Oussama Soualah, Djamal Zeghlache. NFV orchestration framework addressing SFC challenges. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2017, 55 (6), pp.16 - 23. ⟨10.1109/MCOM.2017.1601055⟩. ⟨hal-01629431⟩