Service Overlay Forest Embedding for Software-Defined Cloud Networks
Jian-Jhih Kuo, Shan-Hsiang Shen, Ming-Hong Yang, De-Nian Yang, Ming-Jer Tsai, Wen-Tsuen Chen
TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel Service Overlay Forest (SOF) model for SDN/NFV environments, optimizing multicast service trees with multiple VNFs, and presents an approximation algorithm that outperforms existing solutions in simulations and real SDN tests.
Contribution
It formulates the first optimization model for service forests with multiple VNFs per destination and develops a new approximation algorithm with distributed implementation.
Findings
The proposed algorithm reduces total cost by over 25% in simulations.
SOF significantly improves QoE for YouTube streaming in SDN environments.
The distributed implementation is practical for real network deployment.
Abstract
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) on Software-Defined Networks (SDN) can effectively optimize the allocation of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and the routing of network flows simultaneously. Nevertheless, most previous studies on NFV focus on unicast service chains and thereby are not scalable to support a large number of destinations in multicast. On the other hand, the allocation of VNFs has not been supported in the current SDN multicast routing algorithms. In this paper, therefore, we make the first attempt to tackle a new challenging problem for finding a service forest with multiple service trees, where each tree contains multiple VNFs required by each destination. Specifically, we formulate a new optimization, named Service Overlay Forest (SOF), to minimize the total cost of all allocated VNFs and all multicast trees in the forest. We design a new…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSoftware-Defined Networks and 5G · Cloud Computing and Resource Management · Caching and Content Delivery