CRI: CI-EN: Collaborative Research: OpenNetVM: A Software Platform Enabling Network Function Virtualization Research

CRI：CI-EN：协作研究：OpenNetVM：支持网络功能虚拟化研究的软件平台

• 批准号: 1823236
• 负责人: Timothy Wood
• 金额: $ 32.53万
• 依托单位: George Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823236&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRI; CI; EN; Collaborative; Research

Network Function Virtualization is a "disruptive" technology that changes the network from a transport pipe to a software-defined infrastructure offering flexible services. By transforming network functions to dynamically allocated software containers, new types of applications can be supported along with better network management. OpenNetVM is an open source software platform that seeks to lower the barrier for researchers wishing to explore challenges in this area, and for developers wishing to evaluate new types of network services. This project will provide a robust and flexible foundation that will enable new innovations in these areas. The principal investigators will engage the community to encourage adoption through frequent tutorials and demonstrations. Communication Networks have increasingly become `software based'. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) provides a high-performance network data plane (e.g., middleboxes like firewalls, proxies) and is currently seeing both research and industry interest. NFV research has been stymied by the inadequate software platforms that either offer only very low-level access to packet data (making it difficult to evaluate complex services), or are based on traditional packet-processing approaches that have very poor performance for current-day applicability. The researchers will maintain OpenNetVM as an open-source (BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) license) software infrastructure, providing high-level abstractions with an underlying framework that provides wire-speed performance, primitives for scheduling, and scalability, that offers both industry and academic researchers a way to quickly and conveniently build network functions. OpenNetVM runs network functions in lightweight containers, easily combined to form complex "service chains". The project seeks to provide improved support for real middleboxes with OpenNetVM by adding user space protocol stacks enabling more complex NFs and services, substantially expanding the types of applications supported. The project also expands OpenNetVM to support many NFs that share each CPU core, and distributed deployments where NFs are spread across a cluster, thus enabling research into NFV resource management, NF placement, and complex service chaining. Finally, OpenNetVM will be extended to expose low-level performance metrics that will enable research into automated resource management platforms. To facilitate adoption the researchers will provide comprehensive documentation, tutorials at major conferences, and template images using publicly accessible resources such as NSF CloudLab. The result will be a comprehensive, open source platform that can be used broadly across the networking and operating systems communities. In addition, this project supports the training of a diverse body of students, with an emphasis on preparing a mix of undergraduate and graduate students for entering the high demand field of software-based networks.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

网络功能虚拟化是一种“颠覆性”技术，它将网络从传输管道改变为提供灵活服务的软件定义基础设施。通过将网络功能转换为动态分配的软件容器，可以沿着更好的网络管理来支持新类型的应用。OpenNetVM是一个开源软件平台，旨在为希望探索该领域挑战的研究人员和希望评估新型网络服务的开发人员降低障碍。该项目将提供一个强大而灵活的基础，使这些领域的新创新成为可能。主要研究人员将通过频繁的教程和演示，鼓励社区采用。通信网络日益"以软件为基础“。网络功能虚拟化（NFV）提供高性能网络数据平面（例如，中间盒，如防火墙、代理），并且目前正受到研究和行业的关注。NFV研究一直受到软件平台不足的阻碍，这些软件平台要么只提供对分组数据的非常低级别的访问（使得难以评估复杂的服务），要么基于传统的分组处理方法，这些方法对于当前的适用性来说性能非常差。研究人员将OpenNetVM作为一个开源（BSD（伯克利软件发行版）许可证）软件基础设施，提供高级抽象和底层框架，提供线速性能，调度原语和可扩展性，为行业和学术研究人员提供快速方便地构建网络功能的方法。OpenNetVM在轻量级容器中运行网络功能，可以轻松组合形成复杂的“服务链”。该项目旨在通过添加用户空间协议栈来支持更复杂的NF和服务，从而大大扩展所支持的应用程序类型，从而为OpenNetVM提供对真实的中间盒的更好支持。该项目还扩展了OpenNetVM，以支持共享每个CPU核心的许多NF，以及NF分布在集群中的分布式部署，从而实现对NFV资源管理，NF放置和复杂服务链的研究。最后，OpenNetVM将被扩展以公开低级别的性能指标，从而能够研究自动化资源管理平台。为了促进采用，研究人员将提供全面的文档，主要会议上的教程，以及使用公共可访问资源（如NSF CloudLab）的模板图像。其结果将是一个全面的开源平台，可以在网络和操作系统社区中广泛使用。 此外，该项目还支持培养多样化的学生，重点是培养本科生和研究生的混合，以进入基于软件的网络的高需求领域。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Managing State for Failure Resiliency in Network Function Virtualization

管理网络功能虚拟化中的状态以实现故障恢复

• DOI: 10.1109/lanman49260.2020.9153271
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN
• 作者: Kulkarni, Sameer G;Ramakrishnan, K. K.;Wood, Timothy
• 通讯作者: Wood, Timothy

OFC: an opportunistic caching system for FaaS platforms

• DOI: 10.1145/3447786.3456239
• 发表时间: 2021-04
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems
• 作者: Djob Mvondo;Mathieu Bacou;Kevin Nguetchouang;Lucien Ngale;Stéphane Pouget;Josiane Kouam;Renaud Lachaize-R

NFVnice: Dynamic Backpressure and Scheduling for NFV Service Chains

• DOI: 10.1109/tnet.2020.2969971
• 发表时间: 2017-08
• 期刊: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• 作者: Sameer G. Kulkarni;Wei Zhang-;Jinho Hwang;Shriram Rajagopalan;K. Ramakrishnan;Timothy Wood;M. Arumaithurai-M.-Arumaith

A SmartNIC-based Load Balancing and Auto Scaling Framework for Middlebox Edge Server

• DOI: 10.1109/nfv-sdn53031.2021.9665167
• 发表时间: 2021-11
• 期刊: 2021 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)
• 作者: Zhen Ni;Cui Wei;Timothy Wood;Nakjung Choi