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Network function virtualization (NFV) resource allocation (RA) scheme and research trend (네트워크기능 가상화 (NFV) 자원할당 (RA) 방식과 연구동향)

  • Kim, Hyuncheol;Yoon, Seunghyun;Jeon, Hongseok;Lee, Wonhyuk
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.159-165
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    • 2016
  • Through the NFV (Network Function Virtualization), companies such as network service providers and carriers have sought to dramatically reduce CAPEX / OPEX by improving the speed of new service provisioning and flexibility of network construction through the S/W-based devices provided by NFV. One of the most important considerations for establishing an NFV network to provide dynamic services is to determine how to dynamically allocate resources (VNFs), the basic building blocks of network services, in the right place. In this paper, we analyzed the latest research trends on VNF node, link allocation, and scheduling in nodes that are required to provide arbitrary NS in NFV framework. In this paper, we also propose VNF scheduling problems that should be studied further in RA (Resource Allocation).

Novel VNFI Security Management Function Block For Improved Security Framework For SDN/NFV Networks

  • Alruwaili, Rahaf Hamoud;Alanazi, Haifa Khaled;Hendaoui, Saloua
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.303-309
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    • 2022
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a novel approach that have accelerated the development of numerous technologies such as policy-based access control, network virtualization, and others. It allows to boost network architectural flexibility and expedite the return on investment. However, this increases the system's complexity, necessitating the expenditure of dollars to assure the system's security. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) opens up new possibilities for network engineers, but it also raises security concerns. A number of Internet service providers and network equipment manufacturers are grappling with the difficulty of developing and characterizing NFVs and related technologies. Through Moodle's efforts to maintain security, this paper presents a detailed review of security-related challenges in software-defined networks and network virtualization services.

A Machine Learning-based Method for Virtual Network Function Resource Demand Prediction (기계학습 기반의 가상 네트워크 기능 자원 수요 예측 방법)

  • Kim, Hee-Gon;Lee, Do-Young;Yoo, Jae-Hyung;Hong, James Won-Ki
    • KNOM Review
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2018
  • Network virtualization refers to a technology creating independent virtual network environment on a physical network. Network virtualization technology can share the physical network resources to reduce the cost of establishing the network for each user and enables the network administrator to dynamically change the network configuration according to the purpose. Although the network management can be handled dynamically, the management is manual, and it does not maximize the profit of network virtualization. In this paper, we propose Machine-Learning technology to allow the network to learn by itself and manage its management dynamically. The proposed approach is to dynamically allocate appropriate resources by predicting resource demand of VNF in service function chaining, which is a core and essential problem in virtual network management. Our goal is to predict the resource demand of the VNF and dynamically allocate the appropriate resources to reduce the cost of network operation while preventing service interruption.

Developement Strategy for the National Research Network and Next Generation Network Security (국가연구망의 발전방향 및 차세대 국가연구망 보안)

  • Lee, Myoungsun;Cho, Buseung;Park, Hyoungwoo;Kim, Hyuncheol
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2016
  • With repid development of optical networking technology, Software-Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), high performance networking service, collaboration platform that enables collaborative research globally, drastically National Research Network (NRN) including Internet Service has changed. Therefore we compared and analyzed several world-class NRNs and took a view of future development strategy of the NRN. Also we suggest high speed security environment in super high bandwidth network with 40Gbps and 100Gbps optical transmission technology, network separation of NRN with Science DMZ to support high performance network transmission for science big data, building security environment for last-mile in campus network that supports programmability of IDS using BRO framework.

Migration and Energy Aware Network Traffic Prediction Method Based on LSTM in NFV Environment

  • Ying Hu;Liang Zhu;Jianwei Zhang;Zengyu Cai;Jihui Han
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.896-915
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    • 2023
  • The network function virtualization (NFV) uses virtualization technology to separate software from hardware. One of the most important challenges of NFV is the resource management of virtual network functions (VNFs). According to the dynamic nature of NFV, the resource allocation of VNFs must be changed to adapt to the variations of incoming network traffic. However, the significant delay may be happened because of the reallocation of resources. In order to balance the performance between delay and quality of service, this paper firstly made a compromise between VNF migration and energy consumption. Then, the long short-term memory (LSTM) was utilized to forecast network traffic. Also, the asymmetric loss function for LSTM (LO-LSTM) was proposed to increase the predicted value to a certain extent. Finally, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of LO-LSTM. The results demonstrated that the proposed LO-LSTM can not only reduce migration times, but also make the energy consumption increment within an acceptable range.

Network Slice Selection Function on M-CORD (M-CORD 기반의 네트워크 슬라이스 선택 기능)

  • Rivera, Javier Diaz;Khan, Talha Ahmed;Asif, Mehmood;Song, Wang-Cheol
    • KNOM Review
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.35-45
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    • 2018
  • As Network Slicing functionality gets applied to mobile networking, a mechanism that enables the selection of network slices becomes indispensable. Following the 3GPP Technical Specification for the 5G Architecture, the inclusion of the Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF) in order to leverage the process of slice selection is apparent. However, actual implementation of this network function needs to deal with the dynamic changes of network instances, due to this, a platform that supports the orchestration of Virtual Network Functions (VNF) is required. Our proposed solution include the use of the Central Office Rearchitected as a Data Center (CORD) platform, with the specified profile for mobile networks (M-CORD) that integrates a service orchestrator (XOS) alongside solutions oriented to Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (VNF) and virtual machine management through OpenStack, in order to provide the right ecosystem where our implementation of NSSF can obtain slice information dynamically by relying on synchronization between back-end services and network function instances.

A Study on Extension of OSM (Open Source MANO) Architecture for Providing Virtualization Service in KREONET (첨단연구망(KREONET)에서 가상화 서비스 제공을 위한 OSM(Open Source MANO) 확장방안 연구)

  • Kim, Hyuncheol
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2017
  • NFV is a technology that allows network services to be controlled and managed in software by separating various net work functions (NFs) from hardware devices in dedicated network equipment and implementing them in a high-performance general-purpose server. Therefore, standardized virtualization of network functions is one of the most important factors. However, until the introduction of NFV to provide commercial services, there are many technical issues to be solved such as guaranteeing performance, stability, support for multi-vendor environment, ensuring perfect interoperability, and linking existing virtual and non-virtual resources. In this paper, we propose a method to provide an end-to-end network virtualization service based on OSM R2 in KREONET.

Reliability-aware service chaining mapping in NFV-enabled networks

  • Liu, Yicen;Lu, Yu;Qiao, Wenxin;Chen, Xingkai
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.207-223
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    • 2019
  • Network function virtualization can significantly improve the flexibility and effectiveness of network appliances via a mapping process called service function chaining. However, the failure of any single virtualized network function causes the breakdown of the entire chain, which results in resource wastage, delays, and significant data loss. Redundancy can be used to protect network appliances; however, when failures occur, it may significantly degrade network efficiency. In addition, it is difficult to efficiently map the primary and backups to optimize the management cost and service reliability without violating the capacity, delay, and reliability constraints, which is referred to as the reliability-aware service chaining mapping problem. In this paper, a mixed integer linear programming formulation is provided to address this problem along with a novel online algorithm that adopts the joint protection redundancy model and novel backup selection scheme. The results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly improve the request acceptance ratio and reduce the consumption of physical resources compared to existing backup algorithms.

Design of Network-adaptive Transmission Architecture for Guaranteeing the Quality of Virtualization Service (가상화 서비스의 QoS 보장을 위한 네트워크 적응적인 전송 구조 설계)

  • Kim, Sujeong;Ju, Kwangsung;Chung, Kwangsue
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.1618-1626
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    • 2013
  • Virtualization service processes all operation including the data creation, storing, and disposal in a server and transmits processed data as the streaming media form. Therefore, client can use the same environment as the traditional desktop environment without considering the type of device. Virtualization service should consider not only the video quality but also the delay bounds and continuity of video playback for improving the user perceived Quality of Service(QoS) of streaming service. In this paper, we propose a network-adaptive transmission architecture that focuses on guaranteeing QoS requirements for virtualization service. In order to provide those, the proposed architecture have the transmission rate adaptation function based on available bandwidth and the content bit-rate control function based on sender buffer state. Through each function, proposed architecture guarantee the delay bounds and continuity of virtualization contents playback. The simulation results show that proposed network-adaptive transmission architecture provides a improve performance of throughput and transmission delay.

SDN/NFV Based Web Cache Consistency and JavaScript Transmission Acceleration Scheme to Enhance Web Performance in Mobile Network (모바일 네트워크에서 SDN/NFV 기반의 웹 성능 향상을 위한 웹 캐시 일관성 제공과 JavaScript 전송 가속화 방안)

  • Kim, Gijeong;Lee, Sungwon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39B no.6
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    • pp.414-423
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    • 2014
  • The number and size of resource constituting the web page has been increasing steadily, and this circumstance leads to rapidly falling quality of web service in mobile network that offer relatively higher delay. Moreover, Improving the quality of a web services protocol is difficult to provide network function because the current network architecture has closed structure. In this paper, we suggest schemes to enhance web performance in mobile network, which are Check Coded DOM scheme and Functional JavaScript Transmission scheme, and then try to seek idea which can be provided suggested schemes as a network function using NFV(Network Function Virtualization). For the performance evaluation and analysis about the suggested schemes, we perform network simulation using SMPL library. We confirm that suggested schemes offer better performance in term of page loading time, the number of message and the amount of traffic in the network than HTTP Protocol.