Research Area: Software Defined Networks
The emergence of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables flexible service provisioning and deployment. However, with the continuous expansion of network scale and sharp increasing of end users, how to flexibly provide network services across multiple SDN domains for users is becoming a critical issue. A major challenge in the multi-domain network service provisioning is the network service deployment method taking into account energy efficiency. In this paper, we study the problem of how to optimally deploy network services across multiple SDN domains with the target of saving energy while achieving the load balancing of multi-domain networks. Specifically, firstly, we propose a novel multi-domain network service deployment framework by integrating SDN architecture and NFV technology, which can intelligently deploy virtual network functions (VNFs) into multi-domain networks. Secondly, we formulate this problem as a multi-objective optimization model to achieve the minimization of energy consumption and load balancing of multi-domain networks. Furthermore, we present a heuristic network service deployment algorithm to solve it. Finally, simulation results demonstrate that the proposed heuristic service deployment algorithm is efficient and outperforms comparison algorithms in terms of energy consumption and load balancing degree.
Keywords:
Energy efficient
multiple SDN
virtual network functions
load balance
Author(s) Name: Chuangchuang Zhang, Xingwei Wang, Anwei Dong, Yong Zhao, Qiang He, Min Huang
Journal name: Computer Communications
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Publisher name: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2020.01.019
Volume Information: Volume 151, 1 February 2020, Pages 449-462
