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arXiv: Networking and Internet Architecture | 2016

MeDICINE: Rapid prototyping of production-ready network services in multi-PoP environments

Manuel Peuster; Holger Karl; Steven Van Rossem

Virtualized network services consisting of multiple individual network functions are already today deployed across multiple sites, so called multi-PoP (points of presence) environments. This allows to improve service performance by optimizing its placement in the network. But prototyping and testing of these complex distributed software systems becomes extremely challenging. The reason is that not only the network service as such has to be tested but also its integration with management and orchestration systems. Existing solutions, like simulators, basic network emulators, or local cloud testbeds, do not support all aspects of these tasks. To this end, we introduce MeDICINE, a novel NFV prototyping platform that is able to execute production-ready network functions, provided as software containers, in an emulated multi-PoP environment. These network functions can be controlled by any third-party management and orchestration system that connects to our platform through standard interfaces. Based on this, a developer can use our platform to prototype and test complex network services in a realistic environment running on his laptop.


2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN) | 2015

Deploying elastic routing capability in an SDN/NFV-enabled environment

Steven Van Rossem; Wouter Tavernier; Balázs Sonkoly; Didier Colle; János Czentye; Mario Pickavet; Piet Demeester

SDN and NFV are two paradigms that introduce unseen flexibility in telecom networks. Where previously telecom services were provided by dedicated hardware and associated (vendor-specific) protocols, SDN enables to control telecom networks through specialized software running on controllers. NFV enables highly optimized packet-processing network functions to run on generic/multi-purpose hardware such as x86 servers. Although the possibilities of SDN and NFV are well-known, concrete control and orchestration architectures are still under design and few prototype validations are available. In this demo we demonstrate the dynamic up- and downscaling of an elastic router supporting NFV-based network management, for example needed in a VPN service. The framework which enables this elasticity is the UNIFY ESCAPE environment, which is a PoC following an ETSI NFV MANO-conform architecture. This demo is one of the first to demonstrate a fully closed control loop for scaling NFs in an SDN/NFV control and orchestration architecture.


integrated network management | 2017

NFV service dynamicity with a DevOps approach: Insights from a use-case realization

Steven Van Rossem; Xuejun Cai; Ivano Cerrato; Per Danielsson; Felicián Németh; Bertrand Pechenot; István Pelle; Fulvio Giovanni Ottavio Risso; Sachin Sharma; Pontus Sköldström; Wolfgang John

This experience paper describes the process of leveraging the NFV orchestration platform built in the EU FP7 project UNIFY to deploy a dynamic network service exemplified by an elastic router. Elasticity is realized by scaling dataplane resources as a function of traffic load. To achieve this, the service includes a custom scaling logic and monitoring capabilities. An automated monitoring framework not only triggers elastic scaling, but also a troubleshooting process which detects and analyzes anomalies, pro-actively aiding both dev and ops personnel. Such a DevOps-inspired approach enables a shorter update cycle to the running service. We highlight multiple learnings yielded throughout the prototype realization, focussing on the functional areas of service decomposition and scaling; programmable monitoring; and automated troubleshooting. Such practical insights will contribute to solving challenges such as agile deployment and efficient resource usage in future NFV platforms.


integrated network management | 2017

NFV service dynamicity with a DevOps approach

Steven Van Rossem; Xuejun Cai; Ivano Cerratoz; Per Danielsson; Felicián Németh; Bertrand Pechenot; István Pelle; Fulvio Giovanni Ottavio Risso; Sachin Sharma; Pontus Sköldström; Wolfgang John

Next generation network services will be realized by NFV-based microservices to enable greater dynamics in deployment and operations. Here, we present a demonstrator that realizes this concept using the NFV platform built in the EU FP7 project UNIFY. Using the example of an Elastic Router service, we show automated deployment and configuration of service components as well as corresponding monitoring components facilitating automated scaling of the entire service. We also demonstrate automatic execution of troubleshooting and debugging actions. Operations of the service are inspired by DevOps principles, enabling quick detection of operational conditions and fast corrective actions. This demo conveys essential insights on how the life-cycle of an NFV-based network service may be realized in future NFV platforms.


ieee conference on network softwarization | 2017

A flexible multi-pop infrastructure emulator for carrier-grade MANO systems

Manuel Peuster; Sevil Dräxler; Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei; Steven Van Rossem; Wouter Tavernier; Holger Karl

Developing a virtualized network service does not only involve the implementation and configuration of the network functions it is composed of but also its integration and test with management solutions that will control the service in its production environment. These integration tasks require testbeds that offer the needed network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI), like OpenStack, introducing a lot of management and maintenance overheads. Such testbed setups become even more complicated when the multi point-of-presence (PoP) case, with multiple infrastructure installations, is considered. In this demo, we showcase an emulation platform that executes containerized network services in user-defined multi-PoP topologies. The platform does not only allow network service developers to locally test their services but also to connect realworld management and orchestration solutions to the emulated PoPs. During our interactive demonstration we focus on the integration between the emulated infrastructure and state-of-theart orchestration solutions like SONATA or OSM.


IEEE Communications Magazine | 2018

Introducing Development Features for Virtualized Network Services

Steven Van Rossem; Wouter Tavernier; Didier Colle; Mario Pickavet; Piet Demeester

Network virtualization and softwarizing network functions are trends aiming at higher network efficiency, cost reduction and agility. They are driven by the evolution in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). This shows that software will play an increasingly important role within telecommunication services, which were previously dominated by hardware appliances. Service providers can benefit from this, as it enables faster introduction of new telecom services, combined with an agile set of possibilities to optimize and fine-tune their operations. However, the provided telecom services can only evolve if the adequate software tools are available. In this article, we explain how the development, deployment and maintenance of such an SDN/NFV-based telecom service puts specific requirements on the platform providing it. A Software Development Kit (SDK) is introduced, allowing service providers to adequately design, test and evaluate services before they are deployed in production and also update them during their lifetime. This continuous cycle between development and operations, a concept known as DevOps, is a well known strategy in software development. To extend its context further to SDN/NFV-based services, the functionalities provided by traditional cloud platforms are not yet sufficient. By giving an overview of the currently available tools and their limitations, the gaps in DevOps for SDN/NFV services are highlighted. The benefit of such an SDK is illustrated by a secure content delivery network service (enhanced with deep packet inspection and elastic routing capabilities). With this use-case, the dynamics between developing and deploying a service are further illustrated.


ieee conference on network softwarization | 2017

Automated monitoring and detection of resource-limited NFV-based services

Steven Van Rossem; Wouter Tavernier; Didier Colle; Mario Pickavet; Piet Demeester

The growing demand for flexibility and cost reduction in the telecommunication landscape directs the focus of service development heavily to programmability and softwarization. In the domain of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), one of the goals is to replace dedicated hardware devices (such as switches, routers, firewalls) with software-based network functionalities, showing comparable performance when deployed on common servers. In this paper, we discuss how current VNF implementation and deployment strategies impact the efficient monitoring of their resources. In a multi-tenant, NFV-based ecosystem, different Service Providers deploy VNFs on a shared infrastructure, where the Infrastructure Provider exposes only VNF specific metrics and little information about the physical hosts where the VNFs are eventually orchestrated. Especially in the situation where datacenters are overcommitted, detecting the risk of e.g. CPU starvation is not straight-forward, when no information from the physical host is available. A new monitoring technique is introduced, based on the skewness of the measured probability distribution of the VNF resource consumption. Our measurements show that this metric is a good indicator for the (un)availability of the required CPU resources in the datacenter.


2017 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) | 2017

A network service development kit supporting the end-to-end lifecycle of NFV-based telecom services

Steven Van Rossem; Manuel Peuster; Luis Conceicao; Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei; Wouter Tavernier; Didier Colle; Mario Pickavet; Piet Demeester

Ongoing evolutions in the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) area show that software will play an increasingly important role within the telecommunication industry. It enables telco providers to faster introduce telecom services, combined with new possibilities to optimize and fine-tune operational performance. New virtualization and softwarization methods support fine-grained scaling of resources and highly-customizable configuration settings. Additionally, multi-datacenter topologies are available to deploy the Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) a service consists of. In this context, specialized tools are needed for debugging and validating the deployment, placement, chaining, configuration and scaling of network services, before the operator deploys the service in production. This demo showcases an open-source Software Development Kit (SDK), built to support NFV-based services throughout their whole lifecycle. During the demo, several example VNFs will be loaded into the SDK environment to demonstrate the features a service developer is envisioned to use, while either creating or updating NFV-based telecom services.


IEEE NFV-SDN2016, the IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks | 2016

Monitoring and debugging using an SDK for NFV-powered telecom applications

Steven Van Rossem; Wouter Tavernier; Manuel Peuster; Didier Colle; Mario Pickavet; Piet Demeester


european conference on networks and communications | 2018

Dev-for-Operations and Multi-sided Platform for Next Generation Platform as a Service

Bela Berde; Steven Van Rossem; Aurora Ramos; Matteo Orrú; Anas Shatnawi

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Holger Karl

University of Paderborn

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