vRGW: Towards network function virtualization enabled by software defined networking

Author

Haiyong Xie ; Yanhua Li ; Jin Wang ; Lopez, D. ; Tsou, Tung-Chen ; Yonggang Wen

Author_Institution

Huawei Central Res. Inst., China

fYear

2013

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

It has been a significant challenge for network carriers to deploy and provision a large number of Customer-Premises Equipment (CPE) devices located at subscribers´ premises and connected to a carrier´s network infrastructure. In this paper, we make a first systematic attempt to fundamentally re-shape the access networks into a software defined networking architecture by virtualizing the network functionality of residential gateways (vRGW). Our approach can be generalized to other CPE such as set-top boxes. Our analysis suggests that vRGW can achieve significant economic benefits ranging from up to 90% reduction on the call center cost and up to 46% reduction on the product return cost.

Keywords

internetworking; subscriber loops; virtualisation; CPE devices; access networks; call center cost reduction; carrier network infrastructure; customer-premises equipment; network carriers; network function virtualization; product return cost reduction; set-top boxes; software defined networking architecture; subscriber premises; vRGW; virtualizing the network functionality of residential gateways; Computer architecture; Home automation; Logic gates; Software; Throughput; Virtualization; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Protocols (ICNP), 2013 21st IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Goettingen

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNP.2013.6733632

Filename

6733632