Title :
Prototype of an ICN based approach for flexible service chaining in SDN
Author :
Arumaithurai, Mayutan ; Jiachen Chen ; Maiti, Eeran ; Xiaoming Fu ; Ramakrishnan, K.K.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Goettingen, Germany
fDate :
April 26 2015-May 1 2015
Abstract :
With the widespread use of middleboxes in communication networks (e.g., for services such as Firewall, DPI, accounting, proxies, caching), additional processing beyond simple forwarding has become common. With the emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), dynamically instantiating these functions becomes even more feasible. In addition, chaining such services for packet flows is key to efficiently delivering Internet services. In addition, Software Defined Networking (SDN) gives Internet Service Providers greater flexibility to provision such middlebox based services and route flows through them. However, with the dynamic instantiation of network functions, efficient and scalable use of these services requires separation of the services from their location. In this work, we implement and demonstrate an Information Centric Networking based solution that complements SDN for service chaining and provides benefits such as scalability, flexibility and reliability.
Keywords :
Web services; software defined networking; virtualisation; ICN based approach; Internet service providers; NFV; SDN; communication networks; dynamic network function instantiation; flexible service chaining; information centric networking based solution; middlebox based services; middleboxes; network function virtualization; packet flows; service chaining; software defined networking; Control systems; Electronic mail; Middleboxes; Multiprotocol label switching; Prototypes; Reliability; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2015 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOMW.2015.7179315