AdaptNF: Adaptive service chain scheduling with stateless migration and NF consolidation  

作　　者：Qing Li He Huang Yong Jiang Jingpu Duan 

机构地区：[1]Peng Cheng Laboratory,Shenzhen,518000,China [2]Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School,Shenzhen,10003,China [3]Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,14325,China

出　　处：《Digital Communications and Networks》2023年第2期462-472,共11页数字通信与网络（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Guangdong Province Key Area R&D Program under grant No.2018B010113001;National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2018YFB1804704;National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.61902171;the Shenzhen Key Lab of Software Defined Networking under grant No.ZDSYS20140509172959989.

摘　　要：The combination of network function virtualization and software-defined networking allows various network functions to process flows according to their characteristics and requirements.Due to the highly dynamic nature of the workload,the network infrastructure needs to properly schedule the underlying resources in order to respond to workload changes in a timely manner.However,the existing NFV platform lacks a comprehensive solution for how to scale under workload variation,which may seriously hurt the overall system performance.To improve the scalability of the NFV platform and ensure consistent high performance under dynamic workloads,we propose AdaptNF,a novel NFV platform designed to support a combination of course-grained and fine-grained resource scheduling strategies.To deal with resource imbalance,which is the essential scheduling problem that leads to insufficient NFV performance,AdaptNF adopts a novel algorithm that can efficiently balance the workload among multiple network function instances through stateless flow migration.Our controlled experiments show that the AdaptNF scheme can optimize resource allocation and ensure outstanding performance after scaling.In terms of network throughput and latency,AdaptNF significantly improves the performance of the underlying NFV platform.

关 键 词：Network function virtualization Software-defined networking Service chain Flow migration Dynamic scale 

分 类 号：TN91[电子电信—通信与信息系统]