A PCE-based architecture for the management of virtualized infrastructures

Author

Donadio, Pasquale ; Fioccola, Giovanni B. ; Canonico, Roberto ; Ventre, Giorgio

Author_Institution

Alcatel-Lucent Italia, Milan, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

228

Abstract

The emerging Network Function Virtualization paradigm (NFV) is a disruptive change that creates new business opportunities for vendors and carriers. By exploiting virtualization technologies, it allows the dynamic creation of logically isolated infrastructures over abstracted physical networks. To be able to offer Virtualized Services efficiently, service providers need a new class of Management systems able to manage and orchestrate both network and IT virtualized resources. In this paper, we propose an enhanced network Control Plane, based on the standard Path Computation Element (PCE) architecture, which is able to jointly make network routing and IT server provisioning decisions and that can be used in an NFV environment.

Keywords

computer network management; telecommunication network routing; virtualisation; IT server provisioning decisions; IT virtualized resources; NFV; PCE architecture; PCE-based architecture; abstracted physical networks; business opportunities; enhanced network control plane; network function virtualization paradigm; network management; network routing; standard path computation element architecture; virtualization technologies; virtualized infrastructure management; virtualized services; Computer architecture; Energy consumption; Measurement; Network topology; Power demand; Protocols; Virtual machining; Cloud Computing; Network Function Virtualization; Network Management; Optical Networks; Path Computation Element;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Luxembourg

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CloudNet.2014.6968996

Filename

6968996