• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.2783-2804
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• 2021

In the network function virtualization environment, dynamic changes in network traffic will lead to the dynamic changes of service function chain resource demand, which entails timely dynamic adjustment of service function chain resource configuration. At present, most researches solve this problem through virtual network function migration and link rerouting, and there exist some problems such as long service interruption time, excessive network operation cost and high penalty. This paper proposes a dynamic adjustment method of service function chain resource configuration for the dynamic changes of network traffic. First, a dynamic adjustment request of service function chain is generated according to the prediction of network traffic. Second, a dynamic adjustment strategy of service function chain resource configuration is determined according to substrate network resources. Finally, the resource configuration of a service function chain is pre-adjusted according to the dynamic adjustment strategy. Virtual network functions combination and virtual machine reusing are fully considered in this process. The experimental results show that this method can reduce the influence of service function chain resource configuration dynamic adjustment on quality of service, reduce network operation cost and improve the revenue of service providers.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.896-915
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• 2023

The network function virtualization (NFV) uses virtualization technology to separate software from hardware. One of the most important challenges of NFV is the resource management of virtual network functions (VNFs). According to the dynamic nature of NFV, the resource allocation of VNFs must be changed to adapt to the variations of incoming network traffic. However, the significant delay may be happened because of the reallocation of resources. In order to balance the performance between delay and quality of service, this paper firstly made a compromise between VNF migration and energy consumption. Then, the long short-term memory (LSTM) was utilized to forecast network traffic. Also, the asymmetric loss function for LSTM (LO-LSTM) was proposed to increase the predicted value to a certain extent. Finally, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of LO-LSTM. The results demonstrated that the proposed LO-LSTM can not only reduce migration times, but also make the energy consumption increment within an acceptable range.

• KNOM Review
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2021

VM (Virtual Machine) live migration은 VM에서 동작하는 서비스의 downtime을 최소화하면서 해당 VM을 다른 서버 노드로 이전시키는 서버 가상화 기술이다. 클라우드 데이터센터에서는 로드밸런싱, 특정 위치 서버로의 consolidation 통한 전력 소비 감소, 서버 유지보수(maintenance) 작업 중에도 사용자에게 무중단 서비스를 제공하기 위한 목적 등으로 VM live migration 기술이 활발히 사용되고 있다. 또한 고장 및 장애 상황이 예측되거나 그 징후가 탐지되는 경우, 예방 및 완화 수단으로 활용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서 우리는 두 가지 선제적(proactive) VNF live migration 방법을 제안하며, 첫 번째 방법은 서버 로드밸런싱에 VNF live migration 기법을 사용하며 두 번째 방법은 고장 예측에 기반하여 고장 회피 목적으로 VNF live migration을 사용한다. 선제적 migration을 위한 예측에 머신러닝(기계학습)을 활용하며 실험을 통해 그 실효성을 검증한다. 특히 두 번째 방법에 대해 vEPC (Virtual Evolved Packet Core)의 고장 상황을 case study한 결과를 제시한다.