Critical Function Placement based on Service Chains in Multi-administrative Federated Networks
Abstract
Although the Service Function Chains (SFCs) embedding problem is broadly investigated in the literature, few works address it in a sliced multi-administrative network federation. In this work, we provide several insights into the problem. First, we describe a new federated-level topology abstraction. Second, we introduce a novel optimization model and heuristic (for large scale), which solve SFC embedding. Third, we conduct experiments on various multi-domain topologies and compare the algorithms regarding resource allocation efficiency and runtime. We analyze the trade-off between slice deployment costs and link utilization. Finally, we emulate two security scenarios on Containernet, Docker, and Open vSwitch architecture.
Keywords
SDN, NFV, multi-administrative multi-domain networks, service function chain embedding, slicing, QoS
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D. Nogalski, D. Belabed, A. Triollet, K. Junosza-Szaniawski, S. Abdellatif, P. Berthou, S. Pedebearn and A. Dudko, "Critical Function Placement based on Service Chains in Multi-administrative Federated Networks," in Journal of Communications Software and Systems, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-12, February 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss-2024-0117
@article{nogalski2025criticalfunction,
author = {Dariusz Nogalski and Dallal Belabed and Alexandre Triollet and Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski and Slim Abdellatif and Pascal Berthou and Stanislas Pedebearn and Adam Dudko},
title = {Critical Function Placement based on Service Chains in Multi-administrative Federated Networks},
journal = {Journal of Communications Software and Systems},
month = {2},
year = {2025},
volume = {21},
number = {1},
pages = {1--12},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss-2024-0117},
url = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss-2024-0117}
}