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Virtual Network Function Use Cases Implemented on SONATA Framework

Authors:
Cosmin Conțu
Andra Ciobanu (Țapu)
Eugen Borcoci

Keywords: Network Function Virtualization; Software Defined Networking; Cloud computing; SONATA; Containernet; Docker

Abstract:
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a recent and powerful technology capable to support the development of flexible and customizable virtual networks and services, including sliced networks, in multi-tenant, multi-operator and multi-domain environment. Open research issues still exist for architectural, interoperability, design and also related to implementation and experimental aspects. Among several NFV-oriented projects, Service Programming and Orchestration for Virtualized Software Networks (SONATA) is a representative framework. This paper is an extended version of a previous work and develops several Virtual Network Functions (VNF) on SONATA framework. The examples of VNFs include virtual hosts, HTTP server, firewall and a graph of virtual routers. They have been integrated in separate topologies and then chained together into a more complex topology and have been tested using SONATA basis.

Pages: 103 to 112

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2018. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 30, 2018

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2644