네트워크기능 가상화 (NFV) 자원할당 (RA) 방식과 연구동향

Network function virtualization (NFV) resource allocation (RA) scheme and research trend

  • 투고 : 2016.12.08
  • 심사 : 2016.12.29
  • 발행 : 2016.12.31

초록

NFV (Network Function Virtualization)를 통해 네트워크 사업자, 캐리어 등과 같은 업계에서는 NFV가 추구하는 S/W 기반의 장치를 통하여 신규 서비스 제공의 신속성과 네트워크 구축의 유연성 (flexibility)를 향상 시켜 CAPEX/OPEX를 대폭 감소시키고자 하였다. NFV 네트워크를 구축하여 동적인 서비스를 제공하기 위한 가장 중요한 고려사항 중의 하나는 네트워크 서비스의 기본 구성 요소인 리소스 (VNF)들을 적재적소에 동적으로 할당하는 방식을 결정하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 NFV에서 임의의 NS를 제공하기 위해 필요한 VNF의 노드, 링크 할당 및 노드에서의 스케줄링에 관한 최신 연구 동향을 분석하였다. 또한 본 논문에서는 이러한 연구결과를 기반으로 향후 RA (Resource Allocation)에서 추가적으로 연구해야 하는 스케줄링 문제 또한 제안하였다.

Through the NFV (Network Function Virtualization), companies such as network service providers and carriers have sought to dramatically reduce CAPEX / OPEX by improving the speed of new service provisioning and flexibility of network construction through the S/W-based devices provided by NFV. One of the most important considerations for establishing an NFV network to provide dynamic services is to determine how to dynamically allocate resources (VNFs), the basic building blocks of network services, in the right place. In this paper, we analyzed the latest research trends on VNF node, link allocation, and scheduling in nodes that are required to provide arbitrary NS in NFV framework. In this paper, we also propose VNF scheduling problems that should be studied further in RA (Resource Allocation).

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