---
_id: '981'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "Benchmarking and profiling virtual network functions (VNFs) generates input\r\nknowledge
for resource management decisions taken by \r\nmanagement and orchestration systems.
\r\nSuch VNFs are usually not executed in isolation but are often deployed as
part of a service function chain (SFC) that connects single functions into complex
\r\nstructures. To manage such chains, isolated performance\r\nprofiles of single
functions have to be combined to get insights into \r\nthe overall behavior of
an SFC. This becomes particularly\r\nchallenging in highly agile DevOps environments
in which profiling\r\nprocesses need to be fully automated and detailed insights
about a chain's\r\ninternal structures are not always available. \r\n\r\nIn this
paper, we introduce a\r\nfully automatable, flexible, and platform-agnostic profiling\r\nsystem
that allows to profile entire SFCs at once. This obviates \r\nmanual modeling
procedures to combine profiling results from single\r\nVNFs to reflect SFC performance.
\r\nWe use a case study with different SFC configurations to show that it\r\nis
hard to model the resulting SFC performance based on single-VNF measurements and
that\r\nperformance interactions between real, non-trivial functions that are
deployed in a\r\nchain exist. "
author:
- first_name: Manuel
full_name: Peuster, Manuel
id: '13271'
last_name: Peuster
- first_name: Holger
full_name: Karl, Holger
id: '126'
last_name: Karl
citation:
ama: 'Peuster M, Karl H. Profile Your Chains, Not Functions. Automated Network Service
Profiling in DevOps Environments. In: IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualisation
and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). Berlin; 2017. doi:10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169826'
apa: Peuster, M., & Karl, H. (2017). Profile Your Chains, Not Functions. Automated
Network Service Profiling in DevOps Environments. In IEEE Conference on Network
Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). Berlin. https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169826
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Peuster_Karl_2017, place={Berlin}, title={Profile Your Chains,
Not Functions. Automated Network Service Profiling in DevOps Environments}, DOI={10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169826},
booktitle={IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined
Networks (NFV-SDN)}, author={Peuster, Manuel and Karl, Holger}, year={2017} }'
chicago: Peuster, Manuel, and Holger Karl. “Profile Your Chains, Not Functions.
Automated Network Service Profiling in DevOps Environments.” In IEEE Conference
on Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN).
Berlin, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169826.
ieee: M. Peuster and H. Karl, “Profile Your Chains, Not Functions. Automated Network
Service Profiling in DevOps Environments,” in IEEE Conference on Network Function
Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Berlin, 2017.
mla: Peuster, Manuel, and Holger Karl. “Profile Your Chains, Not Functions. Automated
Network Service Profiling in DevOps Environments.” IEEE Conference on Network
Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2017, doi:10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169826.
short: 'M. Peuster, H. Karl, in: IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualisation
and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Berlin, 2017.'
conference:
location: Berlin
name: IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks
(NFV-SDN)
date_created: 2017-11-27T10:22:29Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T07:04:22Z
ddc:
- '004'
department:
- _id: '75'
doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169826
file:
- access_level: open_access
content_type: application/pdf
creator: peuster
date_created: 2018-07-05T11:14:00Z
date_updated: 2018-07-05T11:14:00Z
file_id: '3431'
file_name: main_ris.pdf
file_size: 2642306
relation: main_file
file_date_updated: 2018-07-05T11:14:00Z
has_accepted_license: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
oa: '1'
place: Berlin
project:
- _id: '25'
call_identifier: 5G PPP Phase 1
grant_number: '671517'
name: 'SONATA NFV: Agile Service Development and Orchestration in 5G Virtualized
Networks'
- _id: '1'
name: SFB 901
- _id: '4'
name: SFB 901 - Project Area C
- _id: '16'
name: SFB 901 - Subproject C4
publication: IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined
Networks (NFV-SDN)
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Profile Your Chains, Not Functions. Automated Network Service Profiling in
DevOps Environments
type: conference
urn: '9810'
user_id: '13271'
year: '2017'
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