Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is set to disrupt the current networking ecosystem by turning vertically-integrated middleboxes into software modules running on general purpose virtualized platforms. NFV will play a key role in future wireless and mobile networks where significant cost reductions can be obtained by virtualizing different layers and functions of the radio access and core network. Such goal raises several challenges in terms of both functional decomposition of the radio nodes and for the management and orchestration of the resulting network. In this work we present Scylla a high-level declarative language for programming network functions that allows programmers to implement per-flow custom packet processing. We also introduce a set of programming abstractions modeling the fundamental aspects of VNF orchestration. Finally, we present a proof-of-concept Controller and an SDK implementing the proposed abstractions.

Scylla: A Language for Virtual Network Functions Orchestration in Enterprise WLANs / Riggio, R.; Imen Grida Ben, Yahia; S., Latré; T., Rasheed. - ELETTRONICO. - (2016), pp. 401-409. (Intervento presentato al convegno IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2016 tenutosi a Istanbul, Turkey nel 25-29 April 2016) [10.1109/NOMS.2016.7502837].

Scylla: A Language for Virtual Network Functions Orchestration in Enterprise WLANs

Riggio R.;
2016-01-01

Abstract

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is set to disrupt the current networking ecosystem by turning vertically-integrated middleboxes into software modules running on general purpose virtualized platforms. NFV will play a key role in future wireless and mobile networks where significant cost reductions can be obtained by virtualizing different layers and functions of the radio access and core network. Such goal raises several challenges in terms of both functional decomposition of the radio nodes and for the management and orchestration of the resulting network. In this work we present Scylla a high-level declarative language for programming network functions that allows programmers to implement per-flow custom packet processing. We also introduce a set of programming abstractions modeling the fundamental aspects of VNF orchestration. Finally, we present a proof-of-concept Controller and an SDK implementing the proposed abstractions.
2016
978-1-5090-0223-8
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