Performance evaluation and tuning of Virtual Infrastructure Managers for (Micro) Virtual Network Functions

2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, NFV-SDN 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 141-147

  Ventre, Pier Luigi ^a   Pisa, Claudio ^b   Salsano, Stefano ^a,b   Siracusano, Giuseppe ^a,c   Schmidt, Florian ^c   Lungaroni, Paolo ^d   Blefari Melazzi, Nicola ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

^c NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^d GARR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Network Function Virtualization; Nomad; Open Source; OpenStack; Performance; Tuning; Virtual Infrastructure Manager; Virtual Network Function

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; MANAGERS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS); SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TUNING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION;

NOMAD; OPEN SOURCES; OPENSTACK; PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURES; VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 85020040002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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