Implementation of virtual network management system with SLA on NetFPGA

With the increase in the bandwidth needs of network service, the customer requirements for Quality of Service (QoS) are also higher. Although the QoS guarantees can be offered by signing the Service Level Agreement (SLA), the costs of infrastructures are increased as well. This paper proposes a shortest path algorithm based on SLA, combined with the resource allocation for virtual networks (VNs). It can help service providers to enhance the achievement of overall SLA contracts in the case of lack of resources. This architecture was also implemented on NetFPGA platforms applied with the concept of OpenFlow to meet the demands of network performance and flexibility. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can dynamically provide the better path to reach the SLA achievement rates.