Title :
A PCE-based architecture for the management of virtualized infrastructures
Author :
Donadio, Pasquale ; Fioccola, Giovanni B. ; Canonico, Roberto ; Ventre, Giorgio
Author_Institution :
Alcatel-Lucent Italia, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
The emerging Network Function Virtualization paradigm (NFV) is a disruptive change that creates new business opportunities for vendors and carriers. By exploiting virtualization technologies, it allows the dynamic creation of logically isolated infrastructures over abstracted physical networks. To be able to offer Virtualized Services efficiently, service providers need a new class of Management systems able to manage and orchestrate both network and IT virtualized resources. In this paper, we propose an enhanced network Control Plane, based on the standard Path Computation Element (PCE) architecture, which is able to jointly make network routing and IT server provisioning decisions and that can be used in an NFV environment.
Keywords :
computer network management; telecommunication network routing; virtualisation; IT server provisioning decisions; IT virtualized resources; NFV; PCE architecture; PCE-based architecture; abstracted physical networks; business opportunities; enhanced network control plane; network function virtualization paradigm; network management; network routing; standard path computation element architecture; virtualization technologies; virtualized infrastructure management; virtualized services; Computer architecture; Energy consumption; Measurement; Network topology; Power demand; Protocols; Virtual machining; Cloud Computing; Network Function Virtualization; Network Management; Optical Networks; Path Computation Element;
Conference_Titel :
Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Luxembourg
DOI :
10.1109/CloudNet.2014.6968996
