Overload and failure management in service function chaining

Jaewook Lee; Haneul Ko; Dongeun Suh; Seokwon Jang; Sangheon Pack

doi:10.1109/NETSOFT.2017.8004241

Overload and failure management in service function chaining

Jaewook Lee, Haneul Ko, Dongeun Suh, Seokwon Jang, Sangheon Pack

School of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Service function chaining (SFC) is an emerging technique that provides steering of traffic flows through an ordered set of service functions (SFs). In SFC, high availability is one of the most important issues to be addressed. SF instances within the chain can become unavailable when SF instances are overloaded or failed (e.g., power outage). Therefore, in order to realize highly available SFC, load balancing and fault management for SF instances must be provided. In this paper, we propose an overload and failure management (OFM) module in SFC that consists of the overload management (OM) module and the failure management (FM) module. In the OM module, when the current load at an SF instance exceeds a low-level threshold, a backup SF instance is prepared in advance. Meanwhile, if the current load further exceeds a high-level threshold, flow migration from the current SF instance to the backup SF instance is triggered. The FM module detects the failure of the SF instance by using a failure alarm. Upon detecting the failure, flow migration to the backup SF instance is triggered. We implement the OFM module in OpenDaylight (ODL) and present the experimental validation results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization
Subtitle of host publication	Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509060085
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2017.8004241
Publication status	Published - 2017 Aug 7
Event	2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, NetSoft 2017 - Bologna, Italy Duration: 2017 Jul 3 → 2017 Jul 7

Publication series

Name	2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017

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Other	2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, NetSoft 2017
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bologna
Period	17/7/3 → 17/7/7

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by IITP grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. B0190-16-2012) and in part by the R&D program of MOTIE/KEIT (10051306).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.

Keywords

OpenDaylight (ODL)
SFC management
Service function chaining (SFC)
failure management
load balancing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Software
Hardware and Architecture

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Lee, J., Ko, H., Suh, D., Jang, S., & Pack, S. (2017). Overload and failure management in service function chaining. In 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017 Article 8004241 (2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2017.8004241

Overload and failure management in service function chaining. / Lee, Jaewook; Ko, Haneul; Suh, Dongeun et al.
2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. 8004241 (2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017).

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

Lee, J, Ko, H, Suh, D, Jang, S & Pack, S 2017, Overload and failure management in service function chaining. in 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017., 8004241, 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, NetSoft 2017, Bologna, Italy, 17/7/3. https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2017.8004241

Lee J, Ko H, Suh D, Jang S, Pack S. Overload and failure management in service function chaining. In 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017. 8004241. (2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017). doi: 10.1109/NETSOFT.2017.8004241

Lee, Jaewook ; Ko, Haneul ; Suh, Dongeun et al. / Overload and failure management in service function chaining. 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. (2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017).

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