Shin-ichiKuribayashi
Department of Computer and Information Science, Seikei University, Japan
In a conventional network, most network devices, such as routers, are dedicated devices that do not
have much variation in capacity. In recent years, a new concept of Network Functions
Virtualisation (NFV) has come into use. The intention is to implement a variety of network functions
with software on general-purpose servers and this allows the network operator to select any
capabilities and locations of network functions without any physical constraints.
This paper focuses on the deployment of NFV-based routing functions which are one of critical
virtual network functions, and present the algorithm of virtual routing function allocation that
minimize the total network cost. In addition, this paper presents the useful allocation policy of
virtual routing functions, based on an evaluation with a ladder-shaped network model. This policy
takes the ratio of the cost of a routing function to that of a circuit and traffic distribution in the
network into consideration. Furthermore, this paper shows that there are cases where the use of
NFV-based routing functions makes it possible to reduce the total network cost dramatically, in
comparison to a conventional network, in which it is not economically viable to distribute smallcapacity
routing functions.
KEYWORDS
Virtual routing function, NFV, resource allocation, minimum total network cost.
No comments:
Post a Comment