Enhancing development and deployment of softwarised network services / Manuel Peuster ; [Referees: Prof. Dr. Holger Karl, Paderborn University, Germany, Prof. Dr. Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy]. Paderborn, 2020
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Background
- Development and operation support
- Developing stateful VNFs
- Introduction
- Related work
- A distributed state management framework
- Prototype implementation
- Evaluation
- Conclusion
- Operation support for stateful VNFs
- Rapid prototyping
- Rapid prototyping of NFV functions and services
- Introduction
- Related work
- Container-based network emulations
- Emulating multi-PoP NFV scenarios
- Workflow
- System architecture
- Topology definition
- Flexible endpoint API
- Chain management and forwarding paths
- Evaluation
- Emulating PoP resource limits
- Conclusion
- Adding NSH-enabled SFC prototyping capabilities
- Introduction
- Related work
- Requirements
- Adding NSH support to the emulation platform
- Case study
- Conclusion
- Supporting the evolution of MANO systems using emulation-based smoke testing
- Performance benchmarking
- Automated benchmarking for NFV
- Introduction
- Related work
- Automated performance benchmarking of NFV functions and services
- Benchmarking platform design and workflow
- Describing benchmarking experiments
- Packaging benchmarking results
- Case study: Chain-based benchmarking
- Scenarios and approach
- Throughput: Isolated function vs. service chain
- Response time: Isolated function vs. service chain
- Conclusion
- Benchmarking under time constraints
- Collecting, analysing, and publishing benchmarking data sets
- Introduction
- Related work
- Methodology & workflow
- Collecting, analysing, and publishing the first data sets
- Conclusion
- Final thoughts
- List of Acronyms
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
- Bibliography