A service-oriented hybrid access network and clouds architecture

Many telecom operators are deploying their own cloud infrastructure with the two-fold objective of providing cloud services to their customers and enabling network function virtualization. In this article we present an architecture we call SHINE, which focuses on orchestrating cloud with heterogeneo...

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Autores: Velasco Esteban, Luis Domingo|||0000-0002-7345-296X, Contreras, Luis Miguel, Ferraris, Giuseppe, Stavdas, Alexandros, Cugini, Filippo, Wiegand, Manfred, Fernández Palacios, Juan Pedro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
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:2117/28302
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/28302
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2015.7081090
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cloud computing
Telecommunication -- Traffic -- Management
Computació en núvol
Telecomunicació -- Tràfic -- Gestió
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
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Sumario:Many telecom operators are deploying their own cloud infrastructure with the two-fold objective of providing cloud services to their customers and enabling network function virtualization. In this article we present an architecture we call SHINE, which focuses on orchestrating cloud with heterogeneous access and core networks. In this architecture intra and inter DC connectivity is dynamically controlled, maximizing the overall performance in terms of throughput and latency while minimizing total costs. The main building blocks are: a future-proof network architecture that can scale to offer potentially unlimited bandwidth based on an active remote node (ARN) to interface end-users and the core network; an innovative distributed DC architecture consisting of micro-DCs placed in selected core locations to accelerate content delivery, reducing core network traffic, and ensuring very low latency; and dynamic orchestration of the distributed DC and access and core network segments. SHINE will provide unprecedented quality of experience, greatly reducing costs by coordinating network and cloud and facilitating service chaining by virtualizing network functions.