A control and management architecture supporting autonomic NFV services

The proposed control, orchestration and management (COM) architecture is presented from a high-level point of view; it enables the dynamic provisioning of services such as network data connectivity or generic network slicing instances based on virtual network functions (VNF). The COM is based on Sof...

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Autores: Velasco Esteban, Luis Domingo|||0000-0002-7345-296X, Casellas Regi, Ramón, Llana, Sergio, Gifre Renom, Lluís, Martínez Rivera, Ricardo Victor, Vilata, Ricard, Muñoz González, Raül, Ruiz, Marc
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/127665
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/127665
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11107-018-0808-2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computer architecture
Software architecture
Optical communications
Autonomic networking
Control
Disaggregated optical networks
Orchestration and management
Arquitectura d'ordinadors
Programari -- Disseny
Comunicacions òptiques
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telecomunicació òptica
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Sumario:The proposed control, orchestration and management (COM) architecture is presented from a high-level point of view; it enables the dynamic provisioning of services such as network data connectivity or generic network slicing instances based on virtual network functions (VNF). The COM is based on Software Defined Networking (SDN) principles and is hierarchical, with a dedicated controller per technology domain. Along with the SDN control plane for the provisioning of connectivity, an ETSI NFV management and orchestration system is responsible for the instantiation of Network Services, understood in this context as interconnected VNFs. A key, novel component of the COM architecture is the monitoring and data analytics (MDA) system, able to collect monitoring data from the network, datacenters and applications which outputs can be used to proactively reconfigure resources thus adapting to future conditions, like load or degradations. To illustrate the COM architecture, a use case of a Content Delivery Network service taking advantage of the MDA ability to collect and deliver monitoring data is experimentally demonstrated.