ICE-T:RC: Accelerating NFV Service Function Chain Processing at Scale

ICE-T:RC：加速大规模 NFV 服务功能链处理

• 批准号: 1836772
• 负责人: Zhi-Li Zhang
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 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=1836772&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ICE; RC; Accelerating; NFV; Service

Network Function Virtualization (NFV), coupled with Software Defined Networking (SDN), promises to revolutionize networking. Operators can create, update or scale out/in (virtualized) network functions (vNFs) on demand, construct a sequence of vNFs to form a service function chain (SFC) and steer traffic through it to meet various policy and service requirements. In emerging 5th Generation (5G) cellular networking technologies, NFV will be a key enabling technology for support of dynamic network slicing and diverse services ranging from enhanced mobile broadband to massive machine type communications and ultra-reliable low latency communications.This project advances a novel distributed parallelization framework, dubbed HydraNF, for accelerating NFV service function chain processing at scale. HydraNF will be designed to simultaneously tackle the performance and auto-scaling challenges in large scale deployment of NFV by taking full advantage of a cluster of multi-core servers for dynamic and elastic scale-out. The proposed project considers the problem of scaling and accelerating NFV service chains leveraging parallelism across multi-cores on a server as well as across multiple servers in a cluster. The project is framed within the context of 5G cellular service and the intended cloud radio access network, mobile edge clouds, and packet cores that are envisioned for future 5G networks. The project team will design a framework, called HydraNF, and study 1) models for VNF behaviors and SFC specification, 2) a controller for SFC decomposition, graph construction and mapping, placement and rule generation, 3) a data plane engine, and 4) the implementation, evaluation and integration within the European collaborator's 5G testbed. This is a collaborative research project with the University of Minnesota and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid, Spain.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（NFV）与软件定义网络（SDN）相结合，有望彻底改变网络。运营商可以按需创建、更新或横向扩展/横向扩展（虚拟化）网络功能（vNF），构建一系列vNF以形成服务功能链（SFC），并引导流量通过它以满足各种策略和服务要求。在新兴的第五代（5G）蜂窝网络技术中，NFV将成为支持动态网络切片和从增强型移动的宽带到大规模机器类型通信和超可靠低延迟通信的多样化服务的关键使能技术。该项目提出了一种称为HydraNF的新型分布式并行化框架，用于大规模加速NFV服务功能链处理。HydraNF旨在通过充分利用多核服务器集群进行动态和弹性扩展，同时解决大规模NFV部署中的性能和自动扩展挑战。拟议的项目考虑了扩展和加速NFV服务链的问题，这些服务链利用了服务器上多核以及集群中多个服务器之间的并行性。该项目是在5G蜂窝服务和预期的云无线电接入网络、移动的边缘云以及为未来5G网络设想的分组核心的背景下制定的。该项目团队将设计一个名为HydraNF的框架，并研究1）VNF行为和SFC规范的模型，2）SFC分解，图形构建和映射，放置和规则生成的控制器，3）数据平面引擎，以及4）欧洲合作者5G测试平台内的实施，评估和集成。这是一个与明尼苏达大学和卡洛斯三世马德里大学（UC 3 M）以及西班牙马德里的IMDEA网络研究所合作的研究项目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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• DOI: 10.1109/tnsm.2021.3052471
• 发表时间: 2021-03
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
• 影响因子: 5.3
• 作者: Yang Zhang;J. Tourrilhes;Zhi-Li Zhang;P. Sharma

Kaala: scalable, end-to-end, IoT system simulator

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• DOI: 10.1145/3538393.3544937
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: SIGCOMM workshop on networked sensing systems for a sustainable society
• 作者: Dayalan, Udhaya Kumar;Fezeu, Rostand A.;Salo, Timothy J.;Zhang, Zhi-Li
• 通讯作者: Zhang, Zhi-Li

A Closer Look at NFV Execution Models

• DOI: 10.1145/3343180.3343188
• 发表时间: 2019-08
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking
• 作者: Peng Zheng;Arvind Narayanan;Zhi-Li Zhang

VeerEdge: Towards an Edge-Centric IoT Gateway

VeerEdge：迈向以边缘为中心的物联网网关

• DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid51090.2021.00083
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid
• 作者: Dayalan, Udhaya Kumar;Fezeu, Rostand A.;Varyani, Nitin;Salo, Timothy J.;Zhang, Zhi-Li
• 通讯作者: Zhang, Zhi-Li

Enhancing Performance, Security, and Management in Network Function Virtualization

• DOI: 10.1109/nfv-sdn50289.2020.9289888
• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)
• 作者: Yang Zhang;Zhi-Li Zhang