AMAN MANGAL

The Recent emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology has provided greater flexibility for applications running in the cloud in terms of placement, scalability etc. At the same time, it has led to a rising need of sophisticated mechanisms and orchestration tools to achieve bounded latency and throughput due to buffering in software queues, slow processing compared to hardware network functions (NF), software context switching and unpredictable software behaviours due to cache etc. The goal is to develop tools to provide given Quality of Service (QoS) which may be defined either in terms of end to end latency, response time or throughput in the presence of software NFs while using the placement, resource allocation, flow routing as control parameters. We have developed an infrastructure to run network functions as docker containers, networking is setup using OpenStack, nova-docker and openvswitch and routes are setup using an SDN controller such as OpendayLight.....