Uma Abordagem Holística para a Definição de Service Chains Utilizando Click-on-OSv sobre Diferentes Plataformas NFV

• Alexandre Huff UTFPR / UFPR
• Giovanni Venâncio UFPR
• Leonardo da C. Marcuzzo UFSM
• Vinícius F. Garcia UFSM
• Carlos R. P. dos Santos UFSM
• Elias P. Duarte Jr. UFPR

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc.2018.2489

Abstract

The deployment of services in virtualized networks can be done by composing multiple Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). The instantiation of VNFs and the routing of the traffic in an order defined through them form a SFC (Service Function Chain). This work proposes a framework for composing and managing the life cycle of SFCs formed by VNFs scheduled on Click-on-OSv. In addition, the proposal expands this context, allowing the execution of SFCs on different NFV orchestrators. The proposed approach defines a unique API for the composition of SFCs that leverages the particular details of the NFV orchestrators. A prototype of the framework was implemented to perform the composition and management of SFCs formed by VNFs with Click-on-OSv on the OpenStack Tacker NFV orchestrator.

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