Fault Tolerant Service Function Chaining
Milad Ghaznavi, Elaheh Jalalpour, Bernard Wong, Raouf Boutaba, Ali José Mashtizadeh
Abstract
Network traffic typically traverses a sequence of middleboxes forming a service function chain, or simply a chain. Tolerating failures when they occur along chains is imperative to the availability and reliability of enterprise applications. Making a chain fault-tolerant is challenging since, in the event of failures, the state of faulty middleboxes must be correctly and quickly recovered while providing high throughput and low latency.
Topics & Concepts
ChainingComputer scienceFault toleranceLatency (audio)Computer networkDistributed computingService (business)Function (biology)Reliability (semiconductor)Chain (unit)TelecommunicationsQuantum mechanicsBiologyPower (physics)EconomyEconomicsPsychotherapistAstronomyEvolutionary biologyPhysicsPsychologySoftware-Defined Networks and 5GSoftware System Performance and ReliabilityDistributed systems and fault tolerance