ApplianceBricks: A Scalable Network Appliance Architecture for Network Function Virtualization

作者：Ma Shicong^*; Wang Baosheng; Zhang Xiaozhe; Gao Xianming

来源：China Communications, 2016, 13(1): 32-42.

DOI：10.1109/CC.0.7560893

• NFV
• network appliance virtualization
• software routers
• cluster-based appliances
• consolidation
• scalability

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an attempt to help operators more effectively manage their networks by implementing traditional network functions embedded in specialized hardware platforms in term of virtualized software instances. But, existing novel network appliances designed for NFV infrastructure are always architected on a general-purpose x86 server, which makes the performance of network functions limited by the hosted single server. To address this challenge, we propose ApplianceBricks, a novel NFV-enable network appliance architecture that is used to explore the way of consolidating multiple physical network functions into a clustered network appliance, which is able to improve the processing capability of NFV-enabled network appliances.

• 出版日期2016
• 单位中国人民解放军国防科学技术大学