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.

网络函数虚拟化（NFV）以及软件定义的网络（SDN）有望革新网络。操作员可以按需创建，更新或扩展（虚拟化）网络功能（VNF），构建一系列VNF来形成服务功能链（SFC），并通过其引导流量以满足各种政策和服务要求。在新兴的第五代（5G）细胞网络技术中，NFV将是支持动态网络切片和多种服务的关键技术，从增强的移动宽带到大型机器类型通信和超级可靠的低潜伏期通信。 Hydranf将旨在通过充分利用一组多核服务器来解决动态和弹性缩放的群集，以同时解决NFV大规模部署的性能和自动缩放挑战。拟议的项目考虑了扩展和加速NFV服务链的问题，该链条在服务器上以及群集中的多个服务器上利用并行性。该项目在5G蜂窝服务以及预期的云无线电访问网络，移动边缘云和数据包内核心的背景下进行了框架，这些构图将在未来的5G网络中设想。项目团队将设计一个称为Hydranf的框架，研究1）VNF行为和SFC规范的模型，2）用于SFC分解，图形结构和映射，放置和规则生成的控制器，3）数据平面引擎，4）4）在欧洲协作者的5G测试中实施，评估和集成。这是与明尼苏达大学和西班牙马德里的IMDEA Networks Institute的合作研究项目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过该基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来评估的支持，并被认为是值得的。

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• 发表时间: 2021-03
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
• 影响因子: 5.3
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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
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Raven: belady-guided, predictive (deep) learning for in-memory and content caching

• DOI: 10.1145/3555050.3569134
• 发表时间: 2022-11
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
• 作者: Xinyue Hu;Eman Ramadan;Wei Ye;Feng Tian;Zhi-Li Zhang

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• DOI: 10.1145/3310165.3310174
• 发表时间: 2019-01
• 期刊: Comput. Commun. Rev.
• 作者: A. Narayanan;Saurabh Verma;Eman Ramadan;Pariya Babaie;Zhi-Li Zhang

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