Distributed service function failover mechanism in service function chaining

Dongeun Suh; Hosung Baek; Seokwon Jang; Sol Han; Sangheon Pack

doi:10.1109/ICOIN.2017.7899494

Distributed service function failover mechanism in service function chaining

Dongeun Suh, Hosung Baek, Seokwon Jang, Sol Han, Sangheon Pack

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Abstract

In service function chaining (SFC), end-To-end traffic flows are classified and processed by an ordered set of service functions (SFs). When SF in the chain fails, the corresponding traffic flows cannot be processed further to reach the destination until the failed SF recovers. To cope with the SF failure, failover mechanisms to instantly recover such failed SFs are mandatory. In this paper, we propose a distributed SF failover mechanism where a distributed failover agent (DFA) located along with each SF instance conducts failure detection/recovery of the failed SF. By doing so, the failed SFs can be recovered without interventions of the centralized SFC controller. Simulation results are shown that the distributed SF failover mechanism significantly reduces the average failover time by 56-76% compared to the centralized SF failover mechanism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	31st International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2017
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	148-150
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509051243
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN.2017.7899494
Publication status	Published - 2017 Apr 13
Event	31st International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2017 - Da Nang, Viet Nam Duration: 2017 Jan 11 → 2017 Jan 13

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Name	International Conference on Information Networking
ISSN (Print)	1976-7684

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Other	31st International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2017
Country/Territory	Viet Nam
City	Da Nang
Period	17/1/11 → 17/1/13

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Distributed service function failover mechanism in service function chaining. / Suh, Dongeun; Baek, Hosung; Jang, Seokwon et al.
31st International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2017. IEEE Computer Society, 2017. p. 148-150 7899494 (International Conference on Information Networking).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Suh, D, Baek, H, Jang, S, Han, S & Pack, S 2017, Distributed service function failover mechanism in service function chaining. in 31st International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2017., 7899494, International Conference on Information Networking, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 148-150, 31st International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2017, Da Nang, Viet Nam, 17/1/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN.2017.7899494

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