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On the Trade-Off between Computational Load and Reliability for Network Function Virtualization
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On the Trade-Off between Computational Load and Reliability for Network Function Virtualization
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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables the "softwarization" of network functions, which are implemented on virtual machines hosted on Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. Both the composition of the virtual network functions (VNFs) into a forwarding graph (FG) at the logical layer and the embedding of the FG on the servers need to take into account the less-than-carrier-grade reliability of COTS components. This work investigates the trade-off between end-to-end reliability and computational load per server via the joint design of VNF chain composition (CC) and FG embedding (FGE) under the assumption of a bipartite FG that consists of controller and regular VNFs. Evaluating the reliability criterion within a probabilistic model, analytical insights are first provided for a simplified disconnected FG. Then, a block coordinate descent method based on mixed-integer linear programming is proposed to tackle the joint optimization of CC and FGE. Via simulation results, it is observed that a joint design of CC and FGE leads to substantial performance gains compared to separate optimization approaches.
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