On the Necessity of Accounting for Resiliency in SFC

Ghada Moualla (1) , Thierry Turletti (1) , Mathieu Bouet (2) , Damien Saucez (1)

1 DIANA - Design, Implementation and Analysis of Networking Architectures
2 THALES COMMUNICATIONS & SECURITY

When deploying network service function chains the focus is usually given on metrics such as the cost, the latency, or the energy and it is assumed that the underlying cloud infrastructure provides resiliency mechanisms to handle with the disruptions occurring in the physical infrastructure. In this position paper, we advocate that while usual performance metrics are essential to decide on the deployment of network service function chains, the notion of resiliency should not be neglected as the choice of virtual-to-physical placement may dramatically improve the ability of the service chains to handle with failures of the infrastructure without requiring complex resiliency mechanisms.

Mots clés: Service Function Chaining; Placement; Resiliency; Virtual Network Functions

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Ghada Moualla, Thierry Turletti, Mathieu Bouet, Damien Saucez. On the Necessity of Accounting for Resiliency in SFC. First International Workshop on Programmability for Cloud Networks and Applications (PROCON), Sep 2016, Wuerzburg, Germany. ⟨hal-01343275⟩