StateProc: Empowering Network Functions with Enhanced Processing Capabilities in Edge Clouds

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Abstract

Edge clouds embrace Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to bring network functions (NFs) closer to end devices. The mobility nature of edge clouds and the emergence of new use cases, such as robot control or metaverse, demand NFs with high resilience. However, numerous NFs like firewalls require stateful processing that depends on historical processing values, referred to as NF states. Consequently, supporting stateful NFs with high resilience necessitates the maintenance of their states, often resulting in significant modification of the NFs. While providing high resilience for NFs, maintaining their processing performance is a critical challenge for existing solutions. Our proposed framework, StateProc, eliminates this concern by enhancing the processing capabilities of NFs through the utilization of NF states for custom processing. Through custom processing for state transfer, the evaluation results show that StateProc significantly improves the state transfer time, up to 93% faster than a notable state-of-the-art framework, without additional processing overhead.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, ISNCC 2024
Herausgeber (Verlag)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Seitenumfang6
ISBN (elektronisch)979-8-3503-6491-0
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2024
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

Titel2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications
KurztitelISNCC 2024
Dauer22 - 25 Oktober 2024
Webseite
OrtUniversity of the District of Columbia & Online
StadtWashington, D.C.
LandUSA/Vereinigte Staaten

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/184003912
ORCID /0000-0001-7008-1537/work/184005063

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Edge Computing, Flexibility, Low-latency, Network Function Virtualization, State Management