A Signaling Protocol for Service Function Localization

作者:Femminella Mauro; Reali Gianluca*; Valocchi Dario
来源:IEEE Communications Letters, 2016, 20(7): 1325-1328.
DOI:10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2564960

摘要

Current proposals for chaining service functions (SFs) do not address some critical management issues, such as the discovery of SF instances close to IP data paths. This information is crucial for deploying complex services both in large cloud networks, where SFs may be moved or replicated, and in the emerging fog/mobile edge computing systems. For this purpose, in this letter, we propose the distributed off-path signaling protocol. We show the protocol functions and demonstrate its scalability and effectiveness by experimental results.

  • 出版日期2016-7