MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments

Peuster, Manuel; Karl, Holger; van Rossem, Steven

MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments

M. Peuster, H. Karl, S. van Rossem, in: IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2016.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05995.pdf

DOI

10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490

URN

7384

Conference Paper | Published | English

Author

Peuster, Manuel^LibreCat; Karl, Holger^LibreCat; van Rossem, Steven

Department

Rechnernetze

Project

SONATA NFV: Agile Service Development and Orchestration in 5G Virtualized Networks
SFB 901
SFB 901 - Project Area C
SFB 901 - Subproject C4

Abstract

Virtualized network services consisting of multiple individual network functions are already today deployed across multiple sites, so called multi-PoP (points of presence) environments. This allows to improve service performance by optimizing its placement in the network. But prototyping and testing of these complex distributed software systems becomes extremely challenging. The reason is that not only the network service as such has to be tested but also its integration with management and orchestration systems. Existing solutions, like simulators, basic network emulators, or local cloud testbeds, do not support all aspects of these tasks. To this end, we introduce MeDICINE, a novel NFV prototyping platform that is able to execute production-ready network functions, provided as software containers, in an emulated multi-PoP environment. These network functions can be controlled by any third-party management and orchestration system that connects to our platform through standard interfaces. Based on this, a developer can use our platform to prototype and test complex network services in a realistic environment running on his laptop.

Publishing Year

2016

Proceedings Title

IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)

Conference

IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)

Conference Location

Palo Alto

LibreCat-ID

738

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Peuster M, Karl H, van Rossem S. MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments. In: IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). ; 2016. doi:10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490

Peuster, M., Karl, H., & van Rossem, S. (2016). MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments. In IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). Palo Alto. https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490

@inproceedings{Peuster_Karl_van Rossem_2016, title={MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments}, DOI={10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490}, booktitle={IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)}, author={Peuster, Manuel and Karl, Holger and van Rossem, Steven}, year={2016} }

Peuster, Manuel, Holger Karl, and Steven van Rossem. “MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments.” In IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490.

M. Peuster, H. Karl, and S. van Rossem, “MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments,” in IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, 2016.

Peuster, Manuel, et al. “MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments.” IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2016, doi:10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490.

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