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Frank Le

Publications and source records attributed to Frank Le.

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arXiv2018

A Comprehensive Study on Load Balancers for VNF chains Horizontal Scaling

We present an architectural design and a reference implementation for horizontal scaling of virtual network function chains. Our solution does not require any changes to network functions and is able to handle stateful network functions for which states may depend on both directions of the traffic. We use connection-aware traffic load balancers based on hashing function to maintain mappings between connections and the dynamically changing network function chains. Our references implementation uses OpenFlow switches to route traffic to the assigned network function instances according to the load balancer decisions. We conducted extensive simulations to test the feasibility of the architecture and evaluate the performance of our implementation.

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arXiv2017

Data Modelling for the Evaluation of Virtualized Network Functions Resource Allocation Algorithms

To conduct a more realistic evaluation on Virtualized Network Functions resource allocation algorithms, researches needed data on: (1) potential NFs chains (policies), (2) traffic flows passing through these NFs chains, (3) how the dynamic traffic changes affect the NFs (scale out/in) and (4) different data center architectures for the NFC. However, there are no publicly available real data sets on NF chains and traffic that pass through NF chains. Therefore we have used data from previous empirical analyses and made some assumptions to derive the required data to evaluate resource allocation algorithms for VNFs. We developed four programs to model the gathered data and generate the required data. All gathered data and data modelling programs are publicly available at github repository.

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