Meeting SLOs in cross-platform NFV
Jane Yen, Jianfeng Wang, Sucha Supittayapornpong, Marcos A. M. Vieira, Ramesh Govindan, Barath Raghavan
Abstract
Network Functions (NFs) perform on-path processing of network traffic. ISPs are deploying NF Virtualization (NFV) with software NFs run on commodity servers. ISPs aim to ensure that NF chains, directed acyclic graphs of NFs, do not violate Service Level Objectives (SLOs) promised by the ISP to its customers. To meet SLOs, NFV systems sometimes leverage on-path hardware (such as programmable switches and smart NICs) to accelerate NF execution.
Topics & Concepts
Network Functions VirtualizationComputer scienceLeverage (statistics)ServerVirtualizationPath (computing)Computer networkOperating systemEmbedded systemCloud computingMachine learningSoftware-Defined Networks and 5GCaching and Content DeliveryAdvanced Optical Network Technologies